Foothills Violent Femmes We Can Do Anything (2016) Verse 1: G C D I know why I go to work G C D And I know sometimes I'm a jerk G C But I can't tell you why D G I'm in love. G C D I'll take lunch with my co-workers G C D But after work I just go berserkers G C Yet I can't tell them why D G I'm in love.
(stay on G) Chorus: G Em Sundays and Saturdays C D Sitting in the park G Or in the dark Em Or at the beach C In the foothills D C D My thoughts they keep straying out of reach C D Say it's left or say it's right G Em Say it's day or say it's night C D Still I can't tell you why G I'm in love. Verse 2: G C D I wake up and then I jerk G C D My brain awake but it won't work G Well enough to say why C D G I'm in love. G C D So I get up and then I jerk G C D And then I get up and then I go to work G But I can't say why C D G I'm in love. Chorus: G Em Holidays or happy days C D Sitting in the park G Or in the dark Em Or at the beach C In the foothills D C D My thoughts they keep staying out of reach C D Say it's wrong or say it's right G Em Say we may or say we might C D Still I can't tell you why G I'm in love. Bridge: G C D I know I will feel the hurt G C D And I know that it doesn't hurt G C And I know you know that D G I'm in love Outro: G C D I get up and I go to work G C D And I can say that my boss is a jerk G C But I can't tell you why D G
"Foothills" is a track from American folk punk rockers Violent Femmes' ninth studio album, "We Can Do Anything" from 2016. The album was the band's first in sixteen years!
"Foothills" is written by singer and guitarist Gordon Gano, Sam Hollander and Dave Katz.