Tag: Arm’s Length

  • CHORDS: Arm\’s Length – Playing Mercy Chords on Piano & Ukulele

    [Intro]
    G D G A Bm
    G D A 
    
    
    [Verse 1]
    G           D
    Explain the paranormal
            G       A    
    Or just tell me what 
        Bm
    you saw
                  G  
    You\'re having dreams 
    about the 
    D              A
    silhouettes you draw
        Bm           
    And you\'re still 
     A      G
    laying low
    G           D 
    But you are hardly
     missing 
    G  A        Bm
    anything at all
                  G 
    It\'s like the fear 
    of missing 
    A               
    out has met its 
    Bm
    match
    When you\'re 
    what\'s 
    A
    missing
    

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    [Chorus]
    G          D     
    I spent my best 
    years 
            G 
    playing mercy 
    A         Bm
    with your ghost
                 G  
    You\'ll never beat 
    me but you\'re 
    D             A
    getting really close
               Bm       
    And you\'re crushing 
    A     G
    up my pills
           D      A
    I\'m scared to swallow
    (I slow the speed 
       Bm     
    of sound, 
           A         
    coming from your 
    G
    mouth)
            D    A
    But I always choke
            Bm     A
    And you beg to differ
    
    
    
    [Verse 2]
    G            D
     I matched my breath 
    with your breath
      G     A        Bm
    I do it just for fun
                  G
    You\'d like to think 
    I\'m counting
    D             A
    Each and every one
          Bm      A
    But I lost my focus
    
    
    
    [Pre-chorus]
    G           D
     You call my name
           A          
    With a tin can on 
      G
    a string
                     D
    You can count on me
        A
    But fuck, who\'s 
    counting?
    G           D
     You always said
             A
    You\'d be crying if 
    you could
    G                D
     I knew what you meant
        A
    But I still wish you 
    would 
    (I still wish you 
    would)
    
    
    
    [Chorus]
    G          D      
    I spent my best years
     playing 
    G     A         Bm
    mercy with your ghost
                 G       
    You\'ll never beat me
     but you\'re
     D             A
     getting really close
               Bm       
    And you\'re crushing 
    A    G
    up my pills
           D      A
    I\'m scared to swallow
                      
    (I slow the speed 
       Bm    
    of sound,
             A   
     coming from 
          G
    your mouth)
            D    A
    But I always choke
            Bm      A
    And you beg to differ
    
    
    
    [Bridge]
    Bm
    If I knew half the 
    things you know
    G                  
    I\'d never shut the 
             D
    f**k up, oh
    You only slept right 
           A
    in the cold
    Shoot for the sky 
                  Bm
    until someone goes
    I wrote it down so 
          G
    I\'d remember
                  D
    I need to write my 
                  D
    thoughts down more
    But I can barely 
    read 
                A
    my own damn writing
    I\'ve always rathered 
            Em
    reading you
    I\'ve always 
    rathered 
            G
    reading yours
    
    
    
    [Verse 3]
    G              
    Begged them to 
    D
    burn your body
         G      A   
    They buried you 
      Bm
    instead
             G                 
    Said you couldn\'t 
    tell the 
    D               
    difference when 
          A
    you\'re dead
    
    
    [Outro]
            G   D  
    When I\'m scared
        A
     to swallow
             G   
    Where you go,
    D     A
     I\'ll follow
    I\'ll follow
    D  C# Bm A G