Foxygen
Middle School Dance (Song for Richard Swift)
Take the Kids Off Broadway (2012)
Transcribed by: Saviano P.
[Intro]
Dm Bb C
You say you want a mother not a confidante
Gm F
But for years you’ve been doing what you want
Dm Bb C
Now your mother don’t know where you are
Gm F
She don’t know that you’re the superstar
[Verse 1]
F Gm Bb C
Little prostitute boy, step
F Gm
Said if I don’t accept your beautiful lie to what you know
Bb C
Then I show these people how to grow
Dm Bb Dm Bb
Oh All this water
Dm Bb
Not since making a doubt
Dm Bb
All inside
F
You’re all messed up
Gm
You’re all dressed up
Bb C
For the letdown
F Gm
If I get on we’ll make it
Bb C
Time for the middle school dance
[Instrumental]
Dm Gm
[Bridge]
Dm Gm
And until I fall asleep
Dm Gm
I’m still bruising all my dreams
Dm Gm
Woke up, why won’t you?
Dm Gm
Stop
(x2)
[Refrain]
F Gm F Gm
It’s detention here?
F Gm F Gm Bb C
What’s the tension here?
[Verse 2]
F
I put my head down in the evening light
Bb
I like to walk round in the sunshine
F
I put my head down in the sand at night
Bb
I put my hands down and I know where you’re at, know yeah
[Instrumental 2]
Bbm Gm F (x4)
[Outro]
Dm C Gm F (x4)