G
They're tearing up streets again
C
They're building a new hotel
D7                                                D
The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down
G
and me and my anger
C
sit folding a paper bird
D7                                                D
letting the curtains turn to beating wings
C
Wish I had a socket-set
G                         Gm
to dismantle this morning
G
And just one pair of clean socks
D7
And a photo of you
G
When you get off work tonight
C
meet me at the construction site
D7                                                D
and we'll write some notes to tape to the heavy machines
G
like We hope they treat you well
C
Hope you don't work too hard
D7                                                D
We hope you get to be happy sometimes
C
Bring your swiss-army knife
G                      Gm
and a bottle of something
G
and I'll bring some spraypaint
D7
and a new deck of cards
G
Hey I found the safest place
C
to keep all our tenderness
D7                                                D
Keep all those bad ideas Keep all our hope
G
It's here in the smallest bones
C
the feet and the inner-ear
D7                                                D
It's such an enormous thing to walk and to listen
C
I'd like to fall asleep
G                         Gm
to the beat of you breathing
G                                        D7
in a room near a truckstop on a highway somewhere
G
You are a radio
C
You are an open door
D7                                                D
I am a faulty string of blue christmas lights
G
You swim through frequencies
C
You let that stranger in
D7                                                D
as I'm blinking off and on and off again
C
We've got a lot of time
G                   Gm
Or maybe we don't
G                                  D7
but I'd like to think so so let me pretend
G
These are my favourite chords
C
I know you like them too
D7                                                D
When I get a new guitar you could have this one
G
And sing me a lullaby
C
Sing me the alphabet
D7                                                D
Sing me a story I haven't heard yet