Intro: Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl B Bmaj7 Abm Gb E B E Gb -x2- Verse: B Back back way back Bmaj7 Abm Gb I used to front like Angkor Wat, Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam E B While home from New York was champagne and disco E Gb Tapes from l.a. slash San Francisco B Bmaj7 But actually Oakland and not Alameda Abm Gb Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader E B Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman E Gb I was a hoarder but girl, that was back then Interlude: B Bmaj7 Abm Gb Chorus: B Bmaj7 Abm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out Gb What you on about? E B E Gb I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones B Bmaj7 Abm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house Gb Such a modest mouse E B E Gb I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone B Bmaj7 Abm Gb Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Interlude: E B E Gb Verse: B Bmaj7 Ancestors told me that their girl was better Abm Gb She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather E B I just ignored all the tales of a past life E Gb Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife B Bmaj7 And punks who would laugh when they saw us together Abm Gb Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather E B I can still see them there huddled on Astor E Gb Snow falling slow to the sound of the Master Chorus: B Bmaj7 Abm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out Gb What you on about? E B E Gb I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones B Bmaj7 Abm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house Gb Such a modest mouse E B E Gb I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone Interlude: B Bmaj7 Abm Gb E B E Gb Verse: B Bmaj7 Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth Abm Gb Age is an honour - it's still not the truth E B We saw the stars when they hid from the world E Gb You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl B Bmaj7 Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her Abm Gb The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her E B We don't know the true death - the true way of all flesh E Gb Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet Chorus: B Bmaj7 Abm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out Gb What you on about? E B E Gb I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones B Bmaj7 Abm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house Gb Such a modest mouse E B E Gb I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone B Bmaj7 Abm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out Gb What you on about? E B E Gb I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones B Bmaj7 Abm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house Gb Such a modest mouse E B E Gb I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone B Bmaj7 Abm Gb Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Outro: E B E Gb B
