Intro:
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

C  Cmaj7  Am  G   F  C  F  G -x2-

Verse:
C
Back back way back
          Cmaj7                    Am                        G
I used to front like Angkor Wat, Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam
      F                      C
While home from New York was champagne and disco
F                 G
Tapes from l.a. slash San Francisco
    C                    Cmaj7
But actually Oakland and not Alameda
     Am                           G
Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader
F                         C
Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman
F                    G
I was a hoarder but girl, that was back then

Interlude: C  Cmaj7  Am  G

Chorus:
    C                   Cmaj7            Am
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
          G
What you on about?
  F             C        F              G
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
    C                 Cmaj7         Am
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        G
Such a modest mouse
  F            C       F            G
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone
C                Cmaj7                 Am               G
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

Interlude: F  C  F  G

Verse:
C                      Cmaj7
Ancestors told me that their girl was better
      Am                        G
She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather
F                      C
I just ignored all the tales of a past life
F                    G
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
    C                               Cmaj7
And punks who would laugh when they saw us together
     Am                     G
Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather
F                          C
I can still see them there huddled on Astor
F                        G
Snow falling slow to the sound of the Master

Chorus:
    C                   Cmaj7            Am
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
          G
What you on about?
  F             C        F              G
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
    C                 Cmaj7         Am
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        G
Such a modest mouse
  F            C       F            G
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone

Interlude: C  Cmaj7  Am  G   F  C  F  G

Verse:
C                         Cmaj7
Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth
Am                     G
Age is an honour - it's still not the truth
F                          C
We saw the stars when they hid from the world
F                          G
You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
C                      Cmaj7
Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
    Am                       G
The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her
   F                               C
We don't know the true death - the true way of all flesh
F                    G
Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet

Chorus:
    C                   Cmaj7            Am
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
          G
What you on about?
  F             C        F              G
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
    C                 Cmaj7         Am
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        G
Such a modest mouse
  F            C       F            G
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone


    C                   Cmaj7            Am
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
          G
What you on about?
  F             C        F              G
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
    C                 Cmaj7         Am
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        G
Such a modest mouse
  F            C       F            G
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone


C                Cmaj7                 Am               G
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

Outro: F  C  F  G  C