Intro: Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl D Dmaj7 Bm A G D G A -x2- Verse: D Back back way back Dmaj7 Bm A I used to front like Angkor Wat, Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam G D While home from New York was champagne and disco G A Tapes from l.a. slash San Francisco D Dmaj7 But actually Oakland and not Alameda Bm A Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader G D Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman G A I was a hoarder but girl, that was back then Interlude: D Dmaj7 Bm A Chorus: D Dmaj7 Bm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out A What you on about? G D G A I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones D Dmaj7 Bm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house A Such a modest mouse G D G A I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone D Dmaj7 Bm A Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Interlude: G D G A Verse: D Dmaj7 Ancestors told me that their girl was better Bm A She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather G D I just ignored all the tales of a past life G A Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife D Dmaj7 And punks who would laugh when they saw us together Bm A Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather G D I can still see them there huddled on Astor G A Snow falling slow to the sound of the Master Chorus: D Dmaj7 Bm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out A What you on about? G D G A I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones D Dmaj7 Bm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house A Such a modest mouse G D G A I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone Interlude: D Dmaj7 Bm A G D G A Verse: D Dmaj7 Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth Bm A Age is an honour - it's still not the truth G D We saw the stars when they hid from the world G A You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl D Dmaj7 Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her Bm A The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her G D We don't know the true death - the true way of all flesh G A Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet Chorus: D Dmaj7 Bm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out A What you on about? G D G A I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones D Dmaj7 Bm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house A Such a modest mouse G D G A I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone D Dmaj7 Bm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out A What you on about? G D G A I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones D Dmaj7 Bm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house A Such a modest mouse G D G A I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone D Dmaj7 Bm A Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Outro: G D G A D
