The Lawrence Arms
Hickery Avenue
Metropole
2014
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com
Key: C
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Am - x02210
F - 133211
C - x32010
G - 320003
E - 022100
G/B - x2x003
Intro: Am(hold)
Verse 1:
Am
We talk a lot in crappy cars
and restaurants and shitty bars
F
We ain't trying very hard but
G
we've got that fucking bark
Am
We talked the talk, packed up
the shit where the fuckers
F
would be feeling it If they
G
could hear the epithets and
Am
the rejoinders that we spit
G
We talk a lot We talk a lot
F G
and now we're feeling fine
Am
We talk a lot We talk a lot
G
We talk a lot yeah we've got
F G E
nothing but time And baby
F
you don't know what it's like
Chorus 1:
Am C G F
So let's keep rolling rolling
F G Am C
out of this shitty yellow light
C G Am F
Cuz we've been trolling trolling
F G Am
through this endless parade
C F
of identical days Nothing
G Am C G Am
changes it only rots away
Verse 2:
C G Am
We talk a lot but
no one's listening
We've been over this
F
before Now it's happening
G
again Now we're squawking
Am
with them crows We hang on
wires and watch the city
F
and its busy days below
We talk a lot, We talk a
G
lot it's the only thing we
Am
know It's time to ride
G
It's time to ride all
F G
goddamn day and night
Am
What have you got?
What have you got?
G
What have you got?
I want to melt
F G
down with time
E
I'm scratching
F
out my insides
Chorus 2:
Am C G F
So let's keep rolling rolling
F G Am
out of this shitty yellow light
C G Am F
Cuz we've been trolling trolling
F G Am
through this endless parade
C F
of identical days Nothing
G Am C G Am C G
changes it only rots away
Bridge:
Am
What are we doing
G
here? Nothing That's
F
what killing me
That's what's
G
fucking killing me
Am
What are we doing
G
here? Nothing That's
F
what killing me
That's what's
G
fucking killing me
Am
What are we doing
G
here? Nothing That's
F
what killing me
G(hold)
killing me
Chorus 3:
Am C G F
So let's keep rolling rolling
F G Am
out of this shitty yellow light
C G Am F
Cuz we've been trolling trolling
F G Am
through this endless parade
C F
of identical days Nothing
G F
changes oh nothing ever
G F
changes oh nothing
G
ever changes
Outro:
C G/B
and we've forgotten
Am
what this used
F
to be like
C G/B
and we've forgotten
Am
what this used
F
to be like
C G/B
and we've forgotten
Am
what this used
G F G Am C G Am(hold)
to be like