Intro: Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl A Amaj7 Gbm E D A D E -x2- Verse: A Back back way back Amaj7 Gbm E I used to front like Angkor Wat, Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam D A While home from New York was champagne and disco D E Tapes from l.a. slash San Francisco A Amaj7 But actually Oakland and not Alameda Gbm E Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader D A Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman D E I was a hoarder but girl, that was back then Interlude: A Amaj7 Gbm E Chorus: A Amaj7 Gbm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out E What you on about? D A D E I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones A Amaj7 Gbm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house E Such a modest mouse D A D E I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone A Amaj7 Gbm E Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Interlude: D A D E Verse: A Amaj7 Ancestors told me that their girl was better Gbm E She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather D A I just ignored all the tales of a past life D E Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife A Amaj7 And punks who would laugh when they saw us together Gbm E Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather D A I can still see them there huddled on Astor D E Snow falling slow to the sound of the Master Chorus: A Amaj7 Gbm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out E What you on about? D A D E I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones A Amaj7 Gbm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house E Such a modest mouse D A D E I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone Interlude: A Amaj7 Gbm E D A D E Verse: A Amaj7 Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth Gbm E Age is an honour - it's still not the truth D A We saw the stars when they hid from the world D E You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl A Amaj7 Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her Gbm E The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her D A We don't know the true death - the true way of all flesh D E Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet Chorus: A Amaj7 Gbm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out E What you on about? D A D E I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones A Amaj7 Gbm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house E Such a modest mouse D A D E I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone A Amaj7 Gbm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out E What you on about? D A D E I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones A Amaj7 Gbm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house E Such a modest mouse D A D E I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone A Amaj7 Gbm E Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Outro: D A D E A
