An Ode To The Nite Ratz Club Cifras

Voicings:
DM7:(xx022x)
B7sus2: (x2x22x)
A: (x0x22x)
D: (xx023x)
F#m: (2x22xx)
E: (0221xx)
*=Arpeggiated
 
[Intro]
 
DM7 4x
 
[Verse]
    DM7                          DM7
The gas inside the combustion engine
                      B7sus2      A
Took away all of the mystery and adventure
          D              D
From the walk to your house in the dark
         D               B7sus2
So that we could stay out all night long
         A               D
And be king of all the roads
          D             D
And the woods and the lake
               B7sus2
Or anything we chose
             A         D
Because everything was ours
     D                  B7sus2
And we would spraypaint "NRC"
       A            D
So everyone would know
 
[Chorus]
         B7sus2*
We would break into the factory
        D*
Our childhood autonomy
    F#m*                             E*
Had no respect for authority or property
                                     B7sus2*
Or your asshole neighbors' complaints
                          D*
And I still have all the keys
                          F#m*                          E*
To the forklifts that we never got a chance to drive around
 
Or tear the building down ourselves
 
[Verse]
B7sus2                          D
But from the top of the water tower
                              F#m
We spilled our guts on one another
                         E
And we compiled them together
                               B7sus2
And we all shared the same heart
 
                      D
And we hated all construction
                         F#m
But we loved all their machines
                        E
And they hated our destruction
 
And we picked their locks apart
 
[Pre-Chorus]
B7sus2    A                   D
And we thought we were damn clever
                            B7sus2
Because they never kept us out
          A                 D
And we thought we'd live forever
 
Until the night when
 
[Chorus]
B7sus2
It got way too serious
     D
And you showed me your damaged wrists
    F#m
And you broke down and we embraced
       E
And nothing at that time meant more to me
B7sus2              D
And if I had only known that it would be the last time
F#m                               E
We'd be on that level with one another
 
I would have never let you go
 
[Instrumental]
B7sus2 D F#m E (4x)
 
[Outro]
  B7sus2                                    D
And I still walk those paths at night, but now just on my own
    F#m                             E                                B7sus2
I recite to myself every story in hopes that I will never let them go
                      D                              F#m
And I'll hold on to every Polaroid from France and Rome
                                 E
And remember the nights at the Alamo
                            B7sus2
As if it were my second home
                       D
And I know that we had no idea what we were doing
         F#m
But an artist's first work can be his greatest
   E
Under a different set of lenses
   B7sus2                          D
And our ideas of staying close together for all time
   F#m                                  E
I wish I still had that same state of mind
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