The Killers
Runaways
Battle Born
2012
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com
Key: C#, same key to their hit song MR. BRIGHTSIDE
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C# - x46664
G# - 466544
Bbm - x13321
F# - 244322
Ebm - x68876
G#/C - x365xx
C#/F - 143xxx
Fm - 133111
Intro: C# G# F# F# C# G# x2
Verse 1:
C# G# F#
Blonde hair blowing in the summer wind
F# C# G#
The blue eyed girl playing in the sand
C# G# F#
I'd been on her trail for a little while
F# C#
But that was the night that
G#
she broke down and held my-
Refrain 1:
F# Bbm
-hand Teenage rush she said
Ebm G#
Ain't we all just runaways?
F# Bbm
We got time but that ain't much
G# F#
We can't wait until tomorrow
G#
You gotta know that
Bbm
this is real baby
F# C#/F
Why you wanna fight it?
Bbm
It's the one thing
G#/C F# G#-Bbm-F#(hold)
you can't choose Oh!
Verse 2:
G# Bbm
We got engaged
F#
on a Friday night
F# C#
I swore on the head
G#
of our unborn child
C# G#
That I could take care
F#
of the three of us
F# C#
But I got the tendency to
G#
slip when the nights get-
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Refrain 2:
F# Bbm
-wild It's in my blood
Ebm
She said she
G#
might just runaway
F#
Somewhere else
Bbm
some place good
G#
We can't wait
F#
until tomorrow
G#
You gotta know
Bbm
that this is real baby
F# C#/F
Why you wanna fight it?
Bbm
It's the one thing
G#/C F#
you can't choose
G#
Let's take a chance
baby we can't lose
Chorus 1:
C# G# F#
Ain't we all just runaways?
F#
I knew it when I met you
C# G#
I'm not gonna let you
C# G# F#
Runaway I knew
F#
it when I held
C# G#
you I wasn't letting go
Bridge:
Fm
We used to look at the
Bbm
stars and confess our dreams
F#
Hold each other
Fm Ebm
until the morning light
C#
We used to laugh
Bbm
no we only fight
G# F#(hold)
Baby are you lonesome now?
Verse 3:
C# G#
And That night I come home
F#
after they go to sleep
F# C#
Like a stumbling ghost
G#
I haunt these halls
C#
There's a picture of
G# F#
us on our wedding day
F# C#
I recognize the girl but
G# F#--
I can't settle in these walls
Refrain 3:
G# F#
We can't wait till tomorrow
G#
No we're caught up
Bbm
in the appeal baby
F# C#/F
Why you wanna hide it?
G#
It's the last
F#
thing on my mind
G#
I turn the engine over
and my body just comes Alive!
Chorus 2:
C# G# F#
Ain't we all just runaways?
F#
I knew it when I met you
C# G#
I'm not gonna let you
C# G# F#
Runaway I knew
F#
it when I held
C# G#
you I wasn't letting go oh oh
C# G# F#
ain't we all just runaway
F# C# G#
yeah
runaway
C# G# F#
ain't we all just runaway
F# C# G#
yeah
Outro: G#-Bbm-F#(hold)
