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Bb

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Bb               F                      Cm                Dm 
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

(Bb, F, Cm, Dm, Eb, Bb, Eb, F) X2

Bb                            F
Back back way back I used to front like Angkor Wat
Cm                          Dm
Mechanicsburg Anchorage and Dar es Salaam
       Eb                    Bb
While home in New York was champagne and disco
Eb               F
Tapes from L.A. slash San Francisco
     Bb                   F
But actually Oakland and not Alameda
      Cm                            Dm
Your girl was in Berkeley with her Communist reader
Eb                        Bb
Mine was entombed within boombox and walkman
Eb                   F
I was a hoarder but girl that was back then

Bb     F     Cm    Dm
Dum dadum dadum dadum

     Bb                  F              Cm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
         Dm
What you on about?
   Eb            Bb       Eb            F
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
     Bb                F              Cm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        Dm
Such a modest mouse,
   Eb           Bb       Eb           F
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone

Bb               F                      Cm                Dm 
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

(Eb, Bb, Eb, F)

Bb                      F
Ancestors told me that their girl was better
       Cm                         Dm
She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather
   Eb                   Bb
I just ignored all the tales of a past life
Eb                      F
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
     Bb                              F
And punks who would laugh when they saw us together
       Cm                       Dm
Well, they didn't know how to dress for the weather
Eb                          Bb
I can still see them there huddled on Astor
Eb                         F
Snow falling slow to the sound of the master

     Bb                  F              Cm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
         Dm
What you on about?
   Eb            Bb       Eb            F
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
     Bb                F              Cm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        Dm
Such a modest mouse,
   Eb           Bb       Eb           F
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone

(Bb, F, Cm, Dm, Eb, Bb, Eb, F)

Bb                           F
Wisdom's a gift, but you'd trade it for youth
Cm                      F
Age is an honor, it's still not the truth
Eb                          Bb
We saw the stars when they hid from the world
Eb                           F
You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
Bb                      F
Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
     Cm                       F
The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her
Eb                           Bb
We know the true death, the true way of all flesh
Eb                     F
Everyone's dying, but girl you're not old yet

     Bb                  F              Cm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
         Dm
What you on about?
   Eb            Bb       Eb            F
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
     Bb                F              Cm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        Dm
Such a modest mouse,
   Eb           Bb       Eb           F
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone
[x2]

Bb               F                      Cm                Dm 
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

Eb, Bb, Eb, F, Bb
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Tabs by: melissad

Published: 21 Jun, 2014

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