Kathleen Edwards : Misc

Capo:

II

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G

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Cmaj7

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x2

G

It's complicated, technically I'm certified

C

A walking declaration, of everything I couldn't get right

G

Time is just an anchor, but seven years I think I am right

C

And now you've changed your number, it's like a noose around my life

Em

For every pill I took in vain

C

Every meal for you I made

Am

C

D

Every penny I put away

C

G

Asking for flowers

D

Am

Is like asking you to be nice

Em

C

Don't tell me you're too tired

Am

C

G

Ten years I've been working nights My life's like a picture left out too long in the sun Now I'm trying to remember all the faces of the names I've loved And all that's left of me now is a cigarette burning bright A fading memory of all the things I tried to get right Every pill I took in vain Every meal for you I made Every plan I tried to make Asking for flowers Is like asking you to be nice Don't tell me you're too tired Ten years I've been working nights

C

G

C

Em

C

Em

C

Em

Every pill I took in vain

C

Every meal for you I made

Am

Every bill I let him pay

C

Every card I signed my name Every time I poured my heart out Every threat you made to move out Every cruel word you let just slip out Every cruel word you let just slip out

Em

C

Am

C

D

Asking for flowers Is like asking you to be nice Don't tell me you're too tired

Am

C

Em

Ten years I've been working nights

Em

C

Don't tell me you're too tired

Am

C

G

Ten years I've been working nights

Capo:

I

E

I've got ways to make you sorry Start my life with someone else I've got ways to make you fall Tell you all the things that I lied about

All subsequent verses are of this form:

E

I got ways to make you mad Just laughin' at the girl sittin' on your lap

A

I got ways to make you sing my songs

E

And ones I ain't written yet

G

I got plots you've never seen

D

I've got moves I've never used

C

A

E

I got ways to make you come... back to me I've got ways to make you strange Drug you up and drag you home I got ways to track you down In all of the places you like to go I got ways to make you crazy Wear all the things you always wanted me to I got ways to make you run And my daddy is coming for you I got plots you've never seen I've got moves I've never used I've got ways to make you come... back to me I've got ways to make you hear me Just by whispering your name I've got ways to make you think You'll never be happy again I've got ways to make you see I'm so much better than before I've got ways to make you swear You won't want your old life anymore I've got plots you've never seen I've got moves I've never used I've got ways to make you come... back to me I've got plots you've never seen I've got moves I've never used I've got ways to make you come

C

Back to me

A

Back to me

E

Back to me

G

D

E

Capo:

III

Em

You know what I wish?

D

It was just you and me

Am

Sitting in this corner bar

C

You could tell me how you are But I'm not gonna lie Or anything You don't even have to speak If you keep looking at me And I could go all night But they're turning up the lights It would be so easy To do or say anything And I'm not gonna lie I'm not looking for love I won't let you in my heart But you are always on my mind

Capo:

III

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C

Cmaj7

D

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x2

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C

D

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x2

C

D

Going down in the same old town, down the same street to the same bar

C

D

And the same old faces saying "Hi", and I don't care

C

D

C

D

Going down in the same old bar every night and I don't even order anymore

C

D

I am so sick of consequence and the look on your face

C

D

C

D

I am tired of playing defense and I don't even have hockey skates

C

D

Don't even have hockey skates

Am

C

G

D

You can meet me at ten thirty, and I won't be there I'll be gone

Am

C

We can talk like we are friends, going over it all again

G

D

Talking about everything I am doing wrong

C

D

C

D

Do you wish that your nose was longer? So you'd have an excuse not to see past it Do you wish that the lights were brighter in the city that you live? I am so sick of consequence and the look on your face I am tired of playing defense, and I don't even have hockey skates Don't even have hockey skates You can meet me at ten thirty, and I won't be there I'll be gone We can talk like we are friends, going over it all again Talking about everything I am doing wrong

Am

C

And do you think your boys club will crumble

G

D

Just because of a loud-mouthed girl?

Am

C

G

D

Just because of a loud-mouthed girl?

C

D

I don't even have hockey skates

C

D

x3

C

D

Going down in the same old town down the same street to the same bar

C

D

And the same old faces saying hi and I don't care

C

D

C

D

G

Capo:

II

Am

Oh, my child

C

Thirty years today

G

You came into my life

Am

And everything changed There's one thing I tried to teach you Girl, don't you waste your time Come this September You'll be somebody's wife

G

F

I won't paint a picture of what you want to see

Em

Dm

Love is the harder times, take it from me

F

C

Am

I would run down the lane and into the night Run so fast, I swear my feet would fly Run from my babies, asleep in their beds Run from my lover and my best friend

G

And back again

Instrumental verse

And all of the courage I tried so hard to hold on to Ever since that day You and your brother left for school They say, just over that hill The fog rolled in And, "Come quick doctor We think somebody's been killed" And I have been a healer of other people's pain Yeah, I know sometimes you don't like the ways I've changed But the smell of the world came into my lungs The sound of the gravel when my legs went numb And my heart nearly burst right out of my chest It felt so good to know I wasn't dead I would run down the lane and into the night Run so fast, I swear my feet would fly Run from my babies, asleep in their beds Run from my lover and my best friend

G

Am

Back again, back again

Kathleen Edwards : Misc

Asking For Flowers

Back To Me

Goodnight, California

Hockey Skates

Run