My Favorite Chords

Chords

Standard

G
They're tearing up streets again.

C
They're building a new hotel.

D7                                                D
The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down,

G
and me and my anger 

C
sit folding a paper bird,

D7                                                D
letting the curtains turn to beating wings.

C
Wish I had a socket-set 

G                         Gm
to dismantle this morning.

G
And just one pair of clean socks.

D7
And a photo of you.

G
When you get off work tonight,

C
meet me at the construction site,

D7                                                D
and we'll write some notes to tape to the heavy machines,

G
like "We hope they treat you well. 

C
Hope you don't work too hard.

D7                                                D
We hope you get to be happy sometimes."

C
Bring your swiss-army knife, 

G                      Gm
and a bottle of something,

G
and I'll bring some spraypaint 

D7
and a new deck of cards.

G
Hey I found the safest place 

C
to keep all our tenderness.

D7                                                D
Keep all those bad ideas. Keep all our hope.

G
It's here in the smallest bones, 

C
the feet and the inner-ear.

D7                                                D
It's such an enormous thing to walk and to listen.

C
I'd like to fall asleep 

G                         Gm
to the beat of you breathing

G                                        D7
in a room near a truckstop on a highway somewhere.

G
You are a radio. 

C
You are an open door.

D7                                                D
I am a faulty string of blue christmas lights.

G
You swim through frequencies.

C
You let that stranger in, 

D7                                                D
as I'm blinking off and on and off again.

C
We've got a lot of time.

G                   Gm
Or maybe we don't, 

G                                  D7
but I'd like to think so, so let me pretend.

G
These are my favourite chords.

C
I know you like them too.

D7                                                D
When I get a new guitar, you could have this one.

G
And sing me a lullaby.

C
Sing me the alphabet.

D7                                                D
Sing me a story I haven't heard yet.