No capo (can be played with capo on 3)
This is my first chord transcription. there might be some mistakes but I desperately wanted to play this song
and haven't found tabs or chords anywhere on this site.
The whole song consists of the same 4 chords
G7 320033
G* 300033
Csus4 x32033
Am7 x02233
G7 G* G7 G* Csus4 Am7 x3
G7 G* G7 G*
We met on the street when our building burned down
Csus4 Am7 G7
and we talked about what we'd have saved if the chance hadn't gone.
G* G7 G*
Gone gone.
Csus4 Am7
You said other things might come along.
G7 G* G7 G* Csus4 Am7
G7 G* G7 G*
It was cheap movie night when you gave me your hand
Csus4 Am7
and you told me you thought I was the one.
G7 G* G7
You were thirtyone, and it sounded like a line,
G* Csus4 Am7
but I went back to your place and stayed until one.
G7 G* G7 G*
Heaven heaven heaven.
Csus4 Am7 G7
But the stars didn't fall from the sky and the earth didn't sway.
G* G7 G*
Heaven heaven.
Csus4 Am7
Is what you think you've seen once cos you know
G7
that it's not going to stay.
G* G7 G* Csus4 Am7
G7 G7 G7
G7 G* G7 G*
And if nice guys finish last, then you could have done well
Csus4 Am7
but no fiction is as strange as the truth
G7
and the truth was a shame.
G* G7 G* Csus4 Am7 G7
Hold on – let's try this again just to make sure we didn't miss out;
G* G7 G*
that we don't have to be alone.
Csus4 Am7
G7 G* G7 G*
Heaven heaven heaven.
Csus4 Am7 G7
But the earth didn't sway and the stars didn't fall from the sky.
G* G7 G*
Heaven heaven.
C-5 Am7 G7
If you'd been Romeo, well then I'd just be expected to die.
G* G7 G*
Heaven, heaven
Csus4 Am7 G7
Is a sorry excuse for the fact that we're made to be burned
G* G7 G*
heaven heaven.
Csus4 Am7 G7
I'm so sorry my friend, this turns out to be your turn.
G* G7 G* Csus4 Am7
G7 G7 G7
G7 G* G7 G*
Well you know what it's like, when the fire burns hot
Csus4 Am7
and it's beauty resides in a heat
G7
that you know will be gone.
G* G7 G*
Gone gone.
Csus4 Am7 G7
And there's nothing to do when it has, you just have to move on.
G* G7 G* Csus4 Am7
G7 G* G7 G*
But the trick of the eye is that one of you stays
Csus4 Am7
and stared into flames that you think are still there
G7 G*
but they're not.
G7 G*
Cos they're gone.
Csus4 Am7 G7
Though their power to burn, is as if they'd have swallowed the sun.
G* G7 G* Csus4 Am7
G7 G* G7 G*
Heaven heaven heaven.
Csus4 Am7 G7
But the earth didn't sway and the stars didn't fall from the sky.
G* G7 G*
Heaven heaven.
Csus4 Am7 G7
If you'd been Romeo, well then I'd just be expected to die.
G* G7 G*
Heaven heaven
Csus4 Am7 G7
Is a sorry excuse for the fact that we're made to be burned
G* G7 G*
heaven heaven.
Csus4 Am7 G7
I'm so sorry my friend, this turns out to be your turn.
G* G7 G* Csus4 Am7 G7 G* G7 G*