Fairy Tales And Firesides

Chords

Standard

Verse I

       D              G                    D 
We are bitter losers, snarling through our smiles

          Bm                G           A 
We're the lost boys, in the supermarket isles

      G                             A 
We're Christmas dogs, dumped by the side of the road

D                         Bm 
Confused, we will run for miles

       G 
We are road rage

       A 
We are stone age

       D 
We are wild



Verse II

       D                        G               D 
We are busted light bulbs, in a backstreet neon sign

          Bm                G               A 
We're the shaking gun, in a service station line

      G 
We'll drink though we're drunk, 

      A 
We'll sink though we've sunk

      D                            Bm 
We're f****d but we say that we're fine

G 
We are rampage, 

A                          D 
Missing back pages in our spine


Chorus

   G                          D   A 
We long, for journeys and the roadside

   G                           D   A 
We long, for starlight and the low tide

         G                         D    A 
Yeah, we long, for fairy tales and fire sides

    D 
And oh, 


Break:

D  G  D 


Verse III

       D 
We are coffeehouse cynics, 

    G                       D 
Too righteous, too rigid to believe

    Bm 
Disappointed romantics, 

G                            A 
Scr*ping the hearts from our sleeves

          G 
We're the toothless drunk, 

          A 
We're the aging punk

             D 
Yeah, we are Adam, 

                          Bm 
We're the apple and we're Eve

G                         A               D 
We are beggars with shiny pennies, on our knees


Chorus

   G                         D   A 
We long, for sunlight on the hillsides

         G                        D   A               
Yeah, we long, for yesterdays and hindsight

       G                         D    A 
Oh, we long, for fairy tales and fire sides

    G 
And oh, 


Middle 8

G  D  A  D x3

G  D  

(One Strum Each)

G  A  D  A 

(Back to Normal)

G  D  A  D 

C 


Chorus

        G                      D          A 
Yeah we long for carnivals and fairground rides

       G                         D   A 
Oh, we long for journeys and the roadsides

       G                        D   A 
Oh, we long for fairy tales and fire sides