Stoked for this CD. Please support this band, they are unbelievable.
I took a go at this song. These chords are for
Acoustic but it should be pretty spot on to play along with
the actually song. Sorry if any of it is wrong.
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[Verse]
E G#m
Cigarette smoke dances back in the window
A C#m B
And I can see the haze on the dome light.
E G#m
I`m conjuring ghosts on a forty-hour ride home
A C#m B
And they keep asking me what I`m doing with my life,
A B C#m
While my cousins go to bed with their wives.
A B F#m
I'm feeling like I've fallen behind.
[Verse 2]
E
Well the highway won.
G#m
I`m listening to traffic reports,
A C#m B
One on one, coming quietly undone.
E G#m
I was born to run away from anything good
A
An escape artist`s son
C#m B
With sun-drenched pavement in my blood.
A B C#m
The first thing that I do when I walk in
A B F#m
Is plan a way out for when shit gets bad
[Chorus]
C#m B A E C#m
And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
B A
(tears in the screen door)
C#m B A E C#m
I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
B A
(another disaster)
E – G#m - A - C#m - B
[Verse 2]
E G#m
I`m terrified like a kid in the sixties,
A C#m B
Staring at the sky waiting for the bomb to fall.
E G#m
It`s all a lie, what they say about stability.
A
It scares me sometimes,
C#m B F#m
The emptiness I see in my eyes.
[Bridge]
G#m A B
All the kid`s names I’ve ever liked are tied to tragedy
F#m G#m A B
And I don’t want my children growing up to be anything like me.
[Chorus]
C#m B A E C#m
And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
B A
(tears in the screen door)
C#m B A E C#m
I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
B A
(another disaster)
C#m A B
But I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
C#m A E
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
A - E - B
[Verse 3]
C#m
I keep a flashlight
A E B
And a small knife in the corner of my bed stand.
C#m A
I keep a flashlight and the train times,
E
But you wouldn’t understand.
B
How could you understand?
E A
Jesus Christ. I`m twentysix.
C#m A
All the people I graduated with
E A
All have kids, all have wives,
C#m A
All have people who care if they come home at night.
C#m B
Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?
[Chorus]
C#m B A E C#m
And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
B A
(tears in the screen door)
C#m B A E C#m
I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
B A
(another disaster)
C#m A B
But I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
C#m A B
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
C#m B E
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
