Passing Through A Screen Door chords by The Wonder Years

"Passing Through A Screen Door"


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G          Em9
Cigarette smoke dances back in the window
  Cadd9     Em7     D
And I can see the haze on the dome light.
  G           Em9
I'm conjuring ghosts on a forty-hour ride home.
  Cadd9            Em7      D
And they keep asking me what I'm doing with my life,
     Cadd9     D       Em7
While my cousins go to bed with their wives.
  Cadd9    D      A7sus4
I'm feeling like I've fallen behind.

G
Well the highway won.
  Em9
I'm listening to traffic reports,
Cadd9       Em7    D
One on one, coming quietly undone.
   G      Em9
I was born to run away from anything good
   Cadd9
An escape artist's son
         Em7      D
With sun-drenched pavement in my blood.
  Cadd9       D     Em7
The first thing that I do when I walk in
  Cadd9   D      A7sus4
Is plan a way out for when shit gets bad

E     D'   C  G'      E
And I've been looking for tears in the screen door.
 D'      C
(tears in the screen door)
E     D'   C   G'   E
I've been waiting for another disaster.
 D'    C
(another disaster)

G - Em9 - Cadd9 - Em7 - D

G        Em9
I'm terrified like a kid in the sixties,
Cadd9       Em7       D
Staring at the sky waiting for the bomb to fall.
   G          Em9
It's all a lie, what they say about stability.
  Cadd9
It scares me sometimes,
  Em7     D     A7sus4
The emptiness I see in my eyes.
    Em9          Cadd9       D
All the kid's names I've ever liked are tied to tragedy
A7sus4          Em9          Cadd9    D
   And I don't want my children growing up to be anything like me.

Em7    D    Cadd9
I've been looking for
G      Em7
Tears in the screen door.
 D      Cadd9
(tears in the screen door)
Em7    D    Cadd9
I've been waiting for
 G    Em7
Another disaster
 D    Cadd9
(another disaster)
  Em7      Cadd9    D
But I was kind of hoping you'd stay.
Em7      Cadd9    G
I was kind of hoping you'd stay.

Cadd9 - G - D

Em7
I keep a flashlight
   Cadd9       G      D
And a small knife in the corner of my bed stand.
     Em7        Cadd9
I keep a flashlight and the train times,
         G
But you wouldn't understand.
       D
How could you understand?

Em7        Cadd9
Jesus Christ. I'm twentysix.
    G         Cadd9
All the people I graduated with
     Em7      Cadd9
All have kids, all have wives,
     G            Cadd9
All have people who care if they come home at night.
   Em7      D
Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?

Em7    D    Cadd9
I've been looking for
G      Em7
Tears in the screen door.
 D      Cadd9
(tears in the screen door)
Em7    D    Cadd9
I've been waiting for
 G    Em7
Another disaster
 D    Cadd9
(another disaster)
  Em7      Cadd9    D
But I was kind of hoping you'd stay.
Em7      Cadd9    G
I was kind of hoping you'd stay.
Em7      D      G
I was kind of hoping you'd stay.