Tuning: Standard
Capo on 5th fret.
Intro: C, G, Am, F
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/jason_mraz/0_interest_crd_ver_2.html ]
C G
Our friends on the front porch,
well they're telling jokes and they
Am F
swing swiftly towards happier times
C G Am
Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort
F
and getting distance from that front porch spotlight
C G Am
But us we found peace in shadows
F
long enough to see the monsters rise
C G Am
Candy's got some space to fill in her daydream
F
living high on yesterday's lies
C G Am
Talking to me about some 0% interest and
F
how she got a better deal than the next guy
Am Am7 Am
And the way the lightning shocked us
D
when we were lost and we were looking
Am Am7 Am
Down that long Missouri highway your hair was longer
D
then and now I can remember
F
Say now I remember oh so well
C G
Oh the roads unencumbered by cats
Am
they're burning like wet matches
F
through my miracle mile mind
C G
You left your thumbprint inside me now
Am
for months it seems but mine
F
only brushes your soft surface
And somehow
C G
Somehow it leaves me listless
Am F
my tongue curls under my lips oh oh yes
C G Am F
So I can't speak to tell you of the months before I met you
Am Am7 Am
And the way, oh the truth it locked us
Am7 Am
Oh right about the time after the lightning shocked us
Am7 Am
When we were young, when we were young and missing
Am7 Am D
Round that small New England byway our lives they were sheltered then and now I can remember
F
Say now well I remember oh so well, almost too well
(Repeat Verse Chord Pattern)
Well its not even being about that anymore I gotta get you down
Those tiny fragments of perfection they please me in a time
Unchanged when its not the same beginning or along awaited end
If I knew all the words I would write myself out of here
If I was all the colors I would paint you pretty in gold in a picture,
So I'm told little sister
So now I'm sold little sister
Why don't you tell me about the sunsets in Sweden and the laws of Eden
And how you were the rock of Gibraltar, and how they called you foxy
Well that's another whole box of pandora's,
That's another whole box of them ties
Slide your foot off the gas before we crash right back into the median
Right back into the median, the median lo-oh
It separates, our house from the middle of the street
It separates our house from the middle of the street
Talking about our house
Is on the front porch telling jokes and they swing swiftly towards happier times
Expending lines and finding more energy for the effort and getting distance from that front porch
Spotlight
But us we found peace in shadows long enough to see a monster die.
We all need to find a little space in our daydreams long enough and just so long.
Long enough, just as long, just so long as its long enough is it long enough?
Is it long enough for me? Long enough for me to chew on.
If it isn't... if it isn't .. if it ain't if it don't if it can't then it wont.
And that's just the way that it goes.
