[Intro]
C G F G
Every time I see you in the world you always step to my girl
[Verse]
C
Back back way back
G
I used to front like Angkor Wat
Am G
Mechanicsburg, Anchorage, and Dar es Salam
Dm
While home in New York
Am
was champagne and disco
Dm G
tapes from L.A. slash San Francisco
C G
but actually Oakland and not Alameda
F G
Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader
Dm Am
Mine was entombed within boombox and walkman
Dm G
I was a hoarder but girl that was back then
[Chorus]
C
The gloves are off
G Am
The wisdom teeth are out
What you on about?
F C
I feel it in my bones
F Am-G
I feel it in my bones
C
I'm stronger now
G Am
I’m ready for the house
Such a Modest Mouse
F C
I can’t do it alone
F Am-G
I can’t do it alone.
C G F G
Every time I see you in the world you always step to my girl
[Verse]
C G
Ancestors told me that their girl was better
Am
She’s richer than Croesus
G
she’s tougher than leather
Dm Am
I just ignored all the tales of a past life
Dm G
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
C G
Punks who would laugh when they saw us together
F G
well they didn’t know how to dress for the weather
Dm Am
I can still see them there huddled on Astor
Dm G
snow falling slow to the sound of the master
[Chorus]
C
The gloves are off
G Am
The wisdom teeth are out
What you on about?
F C
I feel it in my bones
F Am-G
I feel it in my bones
C
I’m stronger now
G Am
I’m ready for the house
Such a Modest Mouse
F C
I can’t do it alone
F Am-G
I can’t do it alone.
[Bridge]
C G
wisdom’s a gift but you’d trade it for youth
Am G
age is an honor it’s still not the truth
Dm Am
we saw the stars when they hid from the world
Dm G
you cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
C G
maybe she’s gone and I can’t resurrect her
F G
the truth is she doesn’t need me to protect her
Dm Am
we know the true death the true way of our flesh
Dm G
everyone’s dying but girl you’re not old yet
[Chorus]
C
The gloves are off
G Am
The wisdom teeth are out
What you on about?
F C
I feel it in my bones
F Am-G
I feel it in my bones
C
I’m stronger now
G Am
I’m ready for the house
Such a Modest Mouse
F C
I can’t do it alone
F Am-G
I can’t do it alone.
C G F G
Every time I see you in the world you always step to my girl
