Artist: Steven Bowers
Title: Your Life as a Piano
Album: Circadian Anthem EP (2009)
Capo 1
[Verse]
F Am
Once there was a building
Bb
In the city where we lived
F Am
It was marked for demolition
Bb
Some planners wanted it
C
To fall into it's own footprint
Bb
So there's poetry I guess
Dm C
In all this ruin
F Am
You were born down at a factory
Bb
Viennese & true
F Am
warped with years and weather
Bb
Like the hands that danced on you
C
Of city boys who played you
Bb
'til your keys were black and blue
Dm C
And city girls who'd break your heart
[Chorus]
Am Dm
But oh to be the sound
Bb
Ringing in their ears
C
Bandaging their hearts
F
Bandaging their hearts
[Verse]
F Am
We threw you from the window
Bb
Of a prehistoric floor
F Am
For what was coming up at you
Bb
The quiet struck the loudest chord
C
To be the one piano
Bb
In a theatre of horns
Dm C
Just does things to you
F Am
And your wooden keys were broken
Bb
The hammers wrapped in felt
F Am
Were busted and I'm praying
Bb
Somewhere out there someone's built
C
An instrument so sensitive
Bb
It registers the swells
Dm C
and it records that you were here
[Chorus]
Am Dm
But oh to be the sound
Bb
Ringing in their ears
C
Bandaging their hearts
Am Dm
Oh to be the sound
Bb
A tourniquet for tears
C
Bandaging their hearts
F
Bandaging our hearts
[Outro]
Bb
Bandaging our hearts
F
Bandaging our hearts
Bb
Bandaging our hearts
C
Bandaging our hearts
Bb
Bandaging our hearts
F
Bandaging our hearts
Bb
Bandaging our hearts
C
Bandaging our hearts