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

E  Emaj7  Dbm  B   A  E  A  B -x2-

Verse:
E
Back back way back
          Emaj7                    Dbm                        B
I used to front like Angkor Wat, Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam
      A                      E
While home from New York was champagne and disco
A                 B
Tapes from l.a. slash San Francisco
    E                    Emaj7
But actually Oakland and not Alameda
     Dbm                           B
Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader
A                         E
Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman
A                    B
I was a hoarder but girl, that was back then

Interlude: E  Emaj7  Dbm  B

Chorus:
    E                   Emaj7            Dbm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
          B
What you on about?
  A             E        A              B
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
    E                 Emaj7         Dbm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        B
Such a modest mouse
  A            E       A            B
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone
E                Emaj7                 Dbm               B
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

Interlude: A  E  A  B

Verse:
E                      Emaj7
Ancestors told me that their girl was better
      Dbm                        B
She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather
A                      E
I just ignored all the tales of a past life
A                    B
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
    E                               Emaj7
And punks who would laugh when they saw us together
     Dbm                     B
Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather
A                          E
I can still see them there huddled on Astor
A                        B
Snow falling slow to the sound of the Master

Chorus:
    E                   Emaj7            Dbm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
          B
What you on about?
  A             E        A              B
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
    E                 Emaj7         Dbm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        B
Such a modest mouse
  A            E       A            B
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone

Interlude: E  Emaj7  Dbm  B   A  E  A  B

Verse:
E                         Emaj7
Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth
Dbm                     B
Age is an honour - it's still not the truth
A                          E
We saw the stars when they hid from the world
A                          B
You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
E                      Emaj7
Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
    Dbm                       B
The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her
   A                               E
We don't know the true death - the true way of all flesh
A                    B
Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet

Chorus:
    E                   Emaj7            Dbm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
          B
What you on about?
  A             E        A              B
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
    E                 Emaj7         Dbm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        B
Such a modest mouse
  A            E       A            B
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone


    E                   Emaj7            Dbm
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
          B
What you on about?
  A             E        A              B
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
    E                 Emaj7         Dbm
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
        B
Such a modest mouse
  A            E       A            B
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone


E                Emaj7                 Dbm               B
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl

Outro: A  E  A  B  E