Atoms by Emmy the Great
Capo on the 3rd Fret with all chords relative to the capo.
D
I know you’re going soon
A
It’s ok, I won’t freak
D F#
Can see it in your eyes, you’ve been moving out for weeks
Em A
You’ve found a girl, she’s so much prettier than me
Em
She’s much cleverer than me
A
She’s so much happier than me
D A
You want a lover who takes time over her looks
D F#
Not some stupid kid who’s always wrapped up in her books
Em A
But can I help it if a sentence makes me cry?
Em
And the pavement makes me cry
A
And the thought of you and I
D
Oh, just leave
A
There’s nothing much I want to say
D
But close the door
F# Em
You know how the atmosphere decays my bones
A
I feel the atoms on my skin
Em A
Oh, I feel the matter closing in
D A
From my perch I see the universe as one
D F#
See the planets in their glory, slowly dancing with the sun
Em A
See my ancestors in monkey costumes fucking on the rocks
Em A
See the priestess and her brother and the farmer and his crops
D A
All these sacred histories have led to this one day
D F#
When you face me on the stairs and say you have to go away
Em A
And time stops like ice where all around it once was hot
Em A
So don’t begrudge a girl her books cos they’re all a girl has got
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D
They sit there now
A
The words unflinching in their strength
D
You see I only ever read
F#
Cos I wish I was brave as them
D A
And I know these words will never leave me standing on the stairs
D F#
Just like my frozen ancestors they always will be there
Em A
In print, just like your image on my heart
Em A
For ever like the planets light the dark
Em A
Just like our world is waltzing with the sun
Em A
Just like when this world explodes it makes another one
D
Oh you, just leave
A
I always wanted you to be free
D F#
But next time you see the planets try and think of me
Em A
And this moment on a stairway where I thought that I could see
Em A
All the atoms in your lover, she’s much prettier than me
Em A
And can I help it if an atom makes me cry?
Em A
I can’t help it if she’s happier than I
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