Hiding by Modern Baseball off their new album Holy Ghost
Standard Tuning
Intro: G
G
Take the train to Frankford
Em B
I won’t answer when they call
C Cm G
I guess that’s just my gift to myself
G
Drank a lot and danced to The Cure
Em B
Holding on for dear life
C Cm G
To the frayed edge of a feeling we misplaced years ago
D C G
And knowing we should really get back home
G
G
Made mistakes
Em B
The plants died young, like all good things
C Cm
But I wish my small self had known
G
How much water to use
G
Still some nights I find
Em B
The ideas that bring me rest
C Cm G
Are the ones that used to prod and pester and keep me up
D C G
Swinging open doors I swore I’d shut
D C
Pouring pewter
Em G C
Amassing coins to displace debt to you
D C
My straight-line shooter
Em
Let me learn here
G Bm C G
I am in pursuit of all I can undo
G
G
Entertain the cancer
Em B
We all answer upwards either way
C Cm G
The waiting game is tied again
G
Backs of hands and phrases
Em
Misplaced gazes
B C Cm G
Things we still deny to selves and hesitate to talk about
D
A call from high school two drinks in
C
I smiled but you could not see
Em Eb D C
Your tin can cell receiver hummed its New York static song
C
The lever pulled and all at once
Am
The floor was false
The center seam divided
Em Eb
Lace and well-pressed cotton
D C
Found the flood we’d since forgotten
We still leave our shoes at the door
Am
Before we wring out our wet clothes
G C
Across your floor and future
Em Eb C
Stitch the gaps that destiny assumed
G C
With floral sutures
Em Eb C
Are you hiding or have I abandoned you?
G
Let me learn here
Bm C G Bm C
I am in pursuit of all I can undo
End on G
