Artist: Arcade Fire
Album: The Suburbs
1. The Suburbs
2. Ready to Start
3. Modern Man
4. Rococo
5. Empty Room
6. City with No Children
7. Half Light I
8. Half Light II (No Celebration)
9. Suburban War
10. Month of May
11. Wasted Hours
12. Deep Blue
13. We Used to Wait
14. Sprawl I (Flatland)
15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
16. The Suburbs (Continued)
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1. The Suburbs
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Capo 2
Intro: C Am E G x2
C Am E G
In the suburbs I, I learned to drive
C Am E G
And you told me we’d never survive, grab your mother’s keys, we’re leaving
C Am E G
C Am E G
You always seemed so sure, That one day we’d be fighting
C Am E G
In a suburban war, your part of town against mine
C Am E G
I saw you standing on the opposite shore, but by the time the first bombs fell
C Am E G
We were already bored, We were already, already bored
Chorus:
C Am E D
Sometimes I can’t believe it, I’m moving past the feeling
C Am E D C Am E G
Sometimes I can’t believe it, I’m moving past the feeling again
C Am E G
The kids wanna be so hard, but in my dreams we’re still screaming
C Am E G
And running through the yard, when all of the walls that they built in the
C Am E G
Seventies finally fall, And all of the houses they built in the
C Am E G
Seventies finally fall, meant nothing at all, meant nothing at all, it meant nothing
Chorus:
C Am E D
Sometimes I can’t believe it, I’m moving past the feeling
C Am E D C Am E G
Sometimes I can’t believe it, I’m moving past the feeling and into the night
C Am E G
C Am E G C Am
So can you understand, why I want a daughter while I’m still young
E G
I want to hold her hand, and show her some beauty
C Am E G
Before all this damage is done, but if it’s too much to ask
C Am E G
If it’s too much to ask, then send me a son
C Am E G
Under the overpass, in the parking lot we’re still waiting
C Am E G
It’s already passed, so move your feet from hot pavement
C Am E G
And into the grass, cause it’s already past, it’s already, already past
Chorus:
C Am E D
Sometimes I can’t believe it, I’m moving past the feeling
C Am E D C Am
Sometimes I can’t believe it, I’m moving past the feeling again
E D C Am
I’m moving past the feeling again
E D C Am
I’m moving past the feeling again
C Am E G
C Am E
G C Am E
In my dreams we’re still screaming
G C Am E
We’re still screaming
G C Am E G
We’re still screaming
C Am E G
C
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2. Ready to Start
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Capo 2
Intro: B5
C G Em Am x2
C G D/F#
Businessmen drink my blood
Em Am
Like the kids in art school said they would
C G D/F#
And I guess I'll just begin again
Em Am
You say can we still be friends
Chorus:
C D C/B
If I was scared, I would
C D G D/F#
And if I was bored, you know I would
C D Em D
And if I was yours, but I'm not
C G D/F#
All the kids have always known
Em Am
That the emperor wears new clothes
C G D/F#
But to bow to down to them anyway
Em Am
Is better than to be alone
Chorus
C G D/F#
Now you're knocking at my door
Em Am
Saying please come out against the night
C G D/F#
But I would rather be alone
Em Am
Than pretend I feel alright
C G D/F#
If the businessmen drink my blood
Em Am
Like the kids in art school said they would
C G D/F#
Then I guess I'll just begin again
Em Am
You say can we still be friends
Chorus:
C D C/B
If I was scared, I would
C D G D/F#
And if I was pure, you know I would
C D Em
And if I was yours, but I'm not
D/F# C
Now I'm ready to start
C D
If I was scared, I would
C D G D/F#
And if I was pure, you know I would
C D Em
And if I was yours, but I'm not
D/F# C Em
Now I'm ready to start
D/F# C Em
Now I'm ready to start
D/F# C Em
I would rather be wrong
D/F# C
Than live in the shadows of your song
Em
My mind is open wide
D/F# C Em
And now I'm ready to start
D/F# C
And now I'm ready to start
Em
My mind is open wide
D/F# C
And now I'm ready to start
Em
Your mind surely opened the door
D/F# C Em
To step out into the dark
D/F#
Now I'm ready
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3. Modern Man
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Intro: A F#m E x2
A F#m E A
I'll wait my turn I'm a modern man
F#m E A
And the people behind they don't understand
F#m E
Makes me feel like
A F#m E
Makes me feel like
A F#m E A
So I wait in line I'm a modern man
F#m E A
And the people behind they can't understand
F#m E
Makes me feel like
A F#m E
Something don't feel right
A F#m E A
F#m E A
F#m E A
Like a record that's skippin' I'm a modern man
F#m E A
And the clock keeps tickin' I'm a modern man
F#m E
Makes me feel light
A F#m E
Makes me feel right
Bridge:
D
In my dream I was almost there
A
Then they pulled me aside and said you're going nowhere
D
They say we are the chosen few
E A
But we're wasted, and that's we're still waitin'
F#m E A
On a number from the modern man
F#m E A
Maybe when you're older you will understand
F#m E
Why you don't feel right
A F#m E
Why you can't sleep at night now
A F#m E A x2
F#m E A x2
Chorus:
A/C# E E/G# F#m
In a line for a number but you don't understand
E E/G# A
Like a modern man
A/C# E E/G# F#m
In a line for a number but you don't understand
E E/G# A
Like a modern man
A F#m E A
Oh I had a dream I was dreamin'
F#m E A
And I feel like I'm losing the feelin'
F#m E
Makes me feel like
A F#m E
Something don't feel right
A F#m E A
I waste a number of the modern man
F#m E A
Wanna break the mirror of the modern man
F#m E
Makes me feel like
A F#m E
Makes me feel like
Bridge
Chorus
A A/C# E E/G# F#m
And you feel so right
E E/G# A
But how come you can't sleep at night?
A/C# E Fdim F#m
In line for a number but you don't understand
E E/G# A F#m
Like a modern man
E A F#m
I'm a modern man
E A F#m
I'm a modern man
E A F#m
I'm a modern man
E A F#m
I'm a modern man
A F#m E x8
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4. Rococo
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Intro: C G E Am G C x2
C G E Am G C
Let's go downtown and watch the modern kids
C G E Am G C
Let's go downtown and talk to the modern kids
C G E Am G C
They will eat right out of your hand
C G E Am G C
Using great big words that they don't understand, they're singin'
Chorus:
C G E Am G C
Rococo Rococo Rococo Rococo
C G E Am G C
Rococo Rococo Rococo Rococo
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E Am G C
They build it up, just to burn it back down
C G E Am G C
They build it up, just to burn it back down
C G E Am G C
The wind is blowing all the ashes around
C G E Am G C
Oh my dear god, what is that horrible song, they're singin'
Chorus:
C G E Am G C
Rococo Rococo Rococo Rococo
C G E Am G C
Rococo Rococo Rococo Rococo
C G E Am G C
Rococo Rococo Rococo Rococo
C G E Am G C
Rococo Rococo Rococo Rococo, Rococo
C
Rococo
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E Am G C
They seem wild, but they're also tame
C G E Am G C
They seem wild, but they're also tame
C G E Am G C
They'll moving towards you with their colors all the same
C G E Am G C
They want to own you but they don't know a game, they're playin'
Solo:
C G E Am G C x2
C G E D
C G E Am G C
Rococo
C G E Am G C
Rococo
C G E D
Rococo
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E Am G C
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C G E D
Ooh ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah
C Am E Am G C
Rococo
C Am E Am G C x2
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5. Empty Room
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Capo 2
Intro: C Em C Em
Dm F
C Em
Searching in, in an empty room
C Em
Searching in, in an empty room
Dm F
Something I, would never do
C Em
Searching in, in an empty room
C Em
Searching in, in an empty room
Dm F
Something I, would never do
C
I'm alone again
Chorus:
G
When I'm by myself, I can be myself
F C Em
When my life is calm but I don't know when
C Em Dm F
C Em
You're burning out, you're black and gray
C Em
You're burning out, you're black and gray
Dm F
Something I would never say
C
I'm alone again
Chorus
C G
Toute ma vie, est avec toi
C G
Toute ma vie, est avec toi
Am Em
Moi j'attends, toi tu pars
C G
Toute ma vie, est avec toi
C G
Toute ma vie, est avec toi
Am Em
Moi j'attends, toi tu pars
C G
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh
C G
Ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh
C E
Ooh
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6. City with No Children
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Capo 2
Intro: E A E A A E A x4
E A E
The summer that I broke my arm
B B/A B/C# F#m
I waited for your letter
E A E
I have no feeling for you now
B B/A B/C# F#m
Now that I know you better
E A E A A E A x2
E A E
I wish that I could have loved you then
B B/A B/C# F#m
Before our age was through
E A E
And before a world war does with us
B B/A B/C# F#m
Whatever it will do
E A E A A E A x2
E A E
Dreamed I drove home to Houston
B B/A B/C# F#m
On a highway that was underground
E A E
There was no light that we could see
B B/A B/C# F#m E
As we listened to the sound of the engine failing
E A E A A E A x2
Chorus:
E A E
I feel like I've been living in
A E
A city with no children in it
A E
A garden left for ruin by
B B/A B/C# F#m E
A millionaire inside of a private prison
E A E A A E A x2
E A E
You never trust a millionaire
B B/A B/C# F#m
Quoting the sermon on the mount
E A E
I used to think I was not like them
B B/A B/C# F#m E
But I'm beginning to have my doubts, my doubts about it
E A E A A E A
E A E
When you're hiding underground
B B/A B/C# F#m
The rain can't get you wet
E A E
But do you think your righteousness
B B/A B/C# F#m E
Could pay the interest on your debt, I have my doubts about it
E A E A A E A
Chorus
E A E
I feel like I've been living in
A E
A city with no children in it
A E
A garden left for ruin by
B B/A B/C# F#m E
And by as I hide inside of my private prison
E A E A A E A x3
E
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7. Half Light I
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Intro: C Em F Dm
C
You told us that
Em
We were too young
F
Now that, night's closing in
Dm
And in the half light, we run
C
Lock us up safe
Em
And hide the key
F
But the, night tears us loose
Dm
And in the half light, we're free
C Em F Dm
C
Strange how the half light
Em
Can make a place new
F
You can't recognize me
Dm
And I can't recognize you
C
We run through the streets
Em
That we know so well
F
And the houses hide so much
Dm
We're in the half light
G
None of us can tell
C
They hide the ocean in a shell
G C G
The ocean in a shell
F
Our heads are just houses
Dm
Without enough windows
F
They say you hear human voices
G C
But they only echo
G C
They only echo
G C
They only echo
G C G
Only echo
C G
We are not listening, we are on the streets
C G
We are not listening, we are on the streets
C G
We are not listening, we are on the streets
C G
We are not listening, we are on the streets
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8. Half Light II (No Celebration)
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A436 Hz
Intro: E B A A/G# E x2
E B A E
Now that San Francisco's gone, I guess I'll just pack it in
E B A A/G# E
Wanna wash away my sins, in the presence of my friends
E B A A/G# E
E B A E
You and I we head back east, to find a town where we can live
E B A A/G# E
Even in the half light, we can see that something's gotta give
E B A A/G# E x2
E B A E
When we watched the markets crash, the promises we made were torn
E B A A/G# E
Then my parents sent for me, from out west where I was born
E B A A/G# E
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G#m B
Some people say, they've already lost
G#m F# E B
But they're afraid to pay the cost
A E
For what we've lost
B A A/G# E
Pay the cost for what we've lost
E B A A/G# E
Now that you have left me here, I will never raise my voice
E B A A/G# E
All the diamonds you have here, in this moment which has no life
E B A A/G# E
E B A E
All the seas have changed so much, since I was a little child
E B A A/G# E
Pray to god I won't live to see, the death of everything that's wild, wooh
E B A A/G# E x2
E B A A/G# E
Though we knew this day would come, still it took us by surprise
E B A A/G# E
In this town where I was born, I now see through a dead man's eyes
E B A A/G# E
One day they, will see it's long gone
E B A A/G# E
One day they, will see it's long gone
E B A A/G# E
One day they, will see it's long gone
E B A A/G# E
One day they, will see it's long gone
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9. Suburban War
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Intro:
Dm C/E F C/E
E|----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
G|-----------------------0----|-----0-----0----------------|--0-------------------------| x4
D|-----7-----7-----7----------|--------------------10------|-----10----------10---------|
A|--------8-----------8-------|--------8--------12---------|--------------------12------|
E|--10----------10------------|--12----------13-------13---|--------13-12-12-------13---|
C/E Dm C/E F
Let's go for a drive, see the town tonight
C/E Dm C/E F
There's nothing to do but I don't mind when I'm with you
C/E Dm C/E F
C/E Dm C/E F
This town's so strange they built it to change
C/E Dm C/E F
And while we sleep we know its streets were rearranged
C/E Dm C/E F
My old friends, can't remember when
C/E Dm C/E F
Before your war against the suburbs began
C/E Dm C/E F
Before it began
C/E F C/E Dm
Now the music divides us into tribes
C/E F C/E Dm
Grew your hair so I'll grew mine
C/E F C/E Dm C/E F
So the past won't rest , till you jump the fence and leave it behind
C/E Dm C/E F
My old friends, I can remember when
C/E Dm C/E F
You cut your hair, I never saw you again
C/E Dm C/E F
Now the cities we live in could be distant stars
C/E Dm C/E F
And I searched for you in every passing car
F G Am G
The nights are warm
F G Am G
Yeah, the nights are warm, I've been
F G Am G
Living in the shadows of your song
F G Am
Living in the shadows of your, song
Dm C/E F C/E x2
C/E Dm C/E F
In the suburbs I, I learned to drive
C/E Dm C/E F
You told me we would never survive,
C/E Dm C/E F
So grab your mother's keys we leave tonight
C/E Dm C/E F
But we started a war that we can't win
C/E Dm C/E F
We keep erasing all the streets we grew up in
C/E Dm C/E F
And now the music divides us into tribes
C/E Dm C/E F
Choose your side, I'll choose my side
Dm C/E F
C Bb Am Dm C/E F
All my old friends, they don't know me now, oh-oh
C Bb Am Dm C/E F
All my old friends are staring through me now, oh-oh
C Bb Am Dm C/E F
All my old friends they don't know me now
C Bb Am Dm C/E F
All my old friends they don't know me now, oh-oh
Am Dm F
They don't know me now
Bb Am
But my old friends, wait
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10. Month of May
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One two three four!
Intro: B5
B5
Gonna make a record in the month of May
In the month of May, in the month of May
E5 G5
Gonna make a record in the month of May
A5 B5
When the violent wind blows the wires away
Month of May, it's a violent thing
In the city their hearts start to sing
E5 G5
Well, some people singing sounds like screaming
A5 B5
Used to doubt it but now I believe it
Month of May, everybody sing love
In the city, watch it from above
E5 G5
And just when I knew what I wanted to say
A5 B5
The violent wind blew the wires away
We were shocked in the suburbs
Now the kids are all standing with their arms folded tight
The kids are all standing with their arms folded tight
E5 G5
Well, some things are pure and some things are right
A5 B5
But the kids are still standing with their arms folded tight
E5 G5
I said some things are pure and some things are right
A5 B5
But the kids are still with their arms folded tight
So young, so young
So much pain for someone so young, well
E5 G5
I know it's heavy, I know it ain't light
A5 B5
But how you gonna lift it with your arms folded tight
First of the town
That's why we're still driving around
E5 G5
And around and around and around and around
A5 B5
And around and around and around and around (And around and around and around and around)
Two-thousand nine, two-thousand ten
Wanna make a record how I felt then
E5 G5
When I stood outside in the month of May
A5 B5
And watched the violent wind blow the wires away
If I died in the month of May
Let the wind take my body away, then
E5 G5
Wish I may or I wish I might
A5 B5
You can meet me down there with my arms folded tight
B5
Start again in the month of May |
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Start again in the month of May |
| x3
Come on and blow the wires away |
|
Come on and blow the wires away |
Wires away
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11. Wasted Hours
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Artist: Arcade Fire
Song: Wasted Hours
Album: The Suburbs
Capo 4
Intro: G
G
All those wasted hours we used to know
Bm Em C
Spent the summer staring out the window
G
The wind it takes you where it wants to go
First they built the road, then they built the town
Bm Em C
That's why we're still driving round and round
G
And all we see, are kids in buses longing to be free
Chorus:
G G/B
Wasted hours, before we knew
Am Em G G/B
Where to go, and what to do
Am Em G Csus2
Wasted hours, that you made new
Em Bm G
And turned into, a life that we can live
G
Some cities make you lose your head
Bm Em C
Endless suburbs stretched out thin and dead
G
And what was that line you said
Wishing you were anywhere but here
Bm Em C
You watch the life you're living disappear
G
And now I see we're still kids in buses longing to be free
Chorus
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12. Deep Blue
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Capo 3
Em Dsus4 D
Here, are my place and time
G C B7 Em
And here in my own skin, I can finally begin
Dsus4 D
Let the century pass me by
G C B7 Em
Standing under night sky, tomorrow means nothing
D G C B7
Em Dsus4 D
I, was only a child then
G C B7 Em
Feeling barely alive when I heard a song from the speaker of a passing car
Dsus4 D
And prayed to a dying star
G C B7
The memory's fading I can almost remember singing
Chorus:
Em D G C
la, la la, la la la la
Em D G B7
La la, la la, la la la
Em
Ooh ooh ooh
Dsus4 D G C B7
Em Dsus4 D
We watched the end of the century
G C B7 Em
Compressed on a tiny screen, a dead star collapsing and we could see
Dsus4 D
That something was ending
G C B7 Em
Are you through pretending, we saw its signs in the suburbs
D G C B7
Em Dsus4 D
You could never have predicted
G C B7 Em
That he could see through you, Kasparov, Deep Blue, nineteen-ninety six
Dsus4 D
Your mind's pulling tricks now
G C B7
The show is over so take a bow, we're living in the shadows
Chorus:
Em D G C
la, la la, la la la la
Em D G B7
La la, la la, la la la
Em
Ooh ooh ooh
D G C B7
Em D G C B7 x4
Em D
Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
G
In the night there is something wild
C B7
Can you hear it breathing?
Em D
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
G
In the night there is something wild
C B7 Em
I feel it, it's leaving me
D
La la, la la, la la la la
G C B7 Em
La la, la la, la la la la
D
La la, la la, la la la la
G C B7 Em
La la, la la, la la la la
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13. We Used to Wait
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Capo 3
C/G: 332010
Intro: Am
Am
I used to write
C/G F C
I used to write letters I used to sign my name
Am
I used to sleep at night
C/G F C
Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain
Am
But by the time we met
C/G F C
By the time we met the times had already changed
Am C/G F C
Am
So I never wrote a letter
C/G F C
I never took my true heart I never wrote it down
Am
So when the lights cut out
C/G F C
I was lost standing in the wilderness downtown
Bridge:
D5 C Am
Now our lives are changing fast
D5 C Am
Now our lives are changing fast
G Em D5
Hope that something pure can last
G Em A5
Hope that something pure can last
Am
But it seems strange
C/G F C
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
Am
But what's stranger still
C/G F C
Is how something so small can keep you alive
Am
We used to wait
C/G F C
We used to waste hours just walking around
Am
We used to wait
C/G F C
All those wasted lives in the wilderness downtown
Chorus:
Am C C/G Am
Ooh we used to wait
C C/G F
Ooh we used to wait
G C C/G Am
Ooh we used to wait (Sometimes it never came)
C C/G Am
Ooh we used to wait (Sometimes it never came)
C C/G F G C
Ooh we used to wait (Still moving through the pain)
Ooh
Am
I'm gonna write
C/G F C
A letter to my true love I'm gonna sign my name
Am
Like a patient on a table
C/G F C
I wanna walk again gonna move through the pain
Bridge:
D5 C Am
Now our lives are changing fast
D5 C Am
Now our lives are changing fast
G Em D5
Hope that something pure can last
G Em Am
Hope that something pure can last
Chorus:
Am C
We used to wait
Am C
We used to wait
F G C
We used to wait
Am C Am C F C D5 Am
Am C Am C
We used to wait for it, We used to wait for it
F C D5 Am
Now we're screaming, sing the chorus again
Am C Am C
We used to wait for it, We used to wait for it
F C D5 Am
Now we're screaming, sing the chorus again
Am C Am C
I used to wait for it, I used to wait for it
F C D5 Am
Hear my voice screaming, sing the chorus again
Am C Am C F C D5 Am
Wait for it
Am C Am C F C D5 Am
Wait for it
Am C Am C F C D5 Am
Wait for it
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14. Sprawl I (Flatland)
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Capo 3
Fdim: 1231xx
Intro: Am
Am Dm
Took a drive into the sprawl
C F
To find the house where we used to stay in
Em Am G F
Couldn't read the number in the dark
G Fdim Em
You said let's save it for another day
Am Dm
Took a drive into the sprawl
C F
To find the places we used to play
Em Am G F
It was the loneliest day of my life
G Fdim Em
You're talking at me but I'm still far away
Am Dm
Let's take a drive, through the sprawl
C F
Through these towns they built to change
Em Am G F
Then you said, the emotions are dead
G Fdim Em
It's no wonder that you feel so strange
Am Dm
Cops showing their lights, on the reflectors of our bikes
C F
Said, do you kids know what time it is?
Em Am G F
Well sir, it's the first time I've felt like something is mine
G Fdim Em
Like I have something to give
Am Dm
The last defender of the sprawl
C F
Said, well where do you kids live?
Em Am G F
Well sir, if you only knew, what the answer is worth
G Fdim Em
Been searching every corner of the earth
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15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
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Capo 3
Intro: C
C Am
They heard me singing and they told me to stop
F C
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock
Am
These days my life, I feel it has no purpose
F C
But late at night the feelings swim to the surface
Am
'Cause on the surface the city lights shine
F C
They're calling at me, come and find your kind
Am
Sometimes I wonder if the World's so small
F C
That we can never get away from the sprawl
Chorus:
F C
Living in the sprawl
F C F C C/B
Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains
Am
And there's no end in sight
F C
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights
C Am
We rode our bikes to the nearest park
F C
Sat under the swings and kissed in the dark
Am
We shield our eyes from the police lights
F C
We run away, but we don't know why
Am
On the black river, the city lights shine
F C
They're screaming at us, we don't need your kind
Am
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small
F C
That we can never get away from the sprawl
Chorus
D# Cm D# G
C Am
They heard me singing and they told me to stop
F C
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock
Am
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small
F C
Can we ever get away from the sprawl?
Chorus
C Am
F C
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights
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16. The Suburbs (Continued)
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Capo 2
C Am E G x3
C Am
If I could have it back
E G
All the time that we wasted
C Am
I'd only waste it again
E G
If I could have it back
C Am
You know I'd love to waste it again
E G
Waste it again and again and again
C Am
E G
I've got to ask
C Am
Sometimes I can't believe it
E D C
I'm moving past the feeling again
Am
Sometimes I can't believe it
E D C
I'm moving past the feeling again
Sometimes I can't believe it
