Intro: G C G C
G C
To celebrate undying faith, we’re gathered here like drifted wrecks
G D
for a late September wedding, October breathing down our necks.
G C
I knew this town in another time. I knew this town a younger man
G D
with the world in my hip pocket a subway token in my hand.
G C G C
Mmm you got to me.
G C
And they got candlelight and a reggae band, champagne by the bucket load
G D
Limos lined up down the curb to take us where we need to go.
G C
And I need to go somewhere I’ve been to find a place I lost the trail
G D
Way back then so long ago I don’t suppose you even know
G
You got to me.
C G C
Brought all this empty down on top of me.
G C G C
You got to me.
G C
We danced between the snowflakes falling, tripping on the cobblestones
G D
And the trolley tracks, we had it all then, Christmas break your roommates gone
G C
We stoked the fire and let it burn till the embers glowed in the morning light
G D
Trust in the tangle of skin on skins I’ve not known quite that feeling since
G
You got to me.
C G
Brought all this empty down on top of me.
C G C D G C G C
I didn’t know but we were not to be, but I know a thing or two now.
G C
The wedding party’s raging yet, how the old and desperate misbehave
G D
Limo smells like cocaine sweat, cheap cologne and aftershave
G C
It’s gotta be one of these row house doors I knew the number long ago
G D
I step out on the curb. Tell the driver just go on and go.
G
You got to me.
C G
Brought all this empty down on top of me.
C G C D G C
I didn’t know but we were not to be, but I know a thing or two now.
Interlude: G C G C G C
G C
The paper boy wants a smoke, leans his bike against a tree
G D
He’s tired and cold and broke and he don’t what to make of me
G C
Standing here in my three piece suit, standing here just like I am
G D
With my vest unbuttoned and my neck tie loose, impervious to all abuse
G
You got to me.
C G
Brought all this empty down on top of me.
C G C D G
Off on a thousand dollar odyssey, and I know a thing or two now.
C D G
Yeah I know a thing or two now.
C D G C D G
Yeah I know a thing or two now.
