Dashboard Confessional – Matters Of Blood And Connection (Guitar)

             G                    Am
Why do you speak with that accent now?

           F                         C
Everyone knows you're not from the streets.

             G                       Am 
You went to prep school in Cambridge,

                    F                       C
With daughters and sons of the privileged elite.

                       G                 Am
Their fortunes from shipping and industry,

                   F                   C
Their futures in yacht clubs and tails.

                G                     Am
So why do you speak with that accent now?

           F                        Am
Everyone knows you're moonlighting here.

                            F
To avail yourself of your heritage,

                            C
For a season or two in the sun.

                                 G
Draw well from the funds in the trust,

                                    Am
Thanks to the fathers of fortunate sons,

                          F
For us it's a matter of charging the gates

                          C            G
For you it's a matter of blood and connections

     C            G                   C              
Of blood and connections. 

               G                      Am
So who do you fool with that costume now?

           F                       C
Everyone knows you're not who you seem

               G               Am
You've got a hard way about you

                   F                  Am
For someone whose passage is already paid

                                      F
By the sins and the schemes of your father

                               C
And the infinite reach of his arm

                                 G
Draw well from the funds in the trust,

                                    Am
Thanks to the fathers of fortunate sons,

                           F
For us it's a matter of charging the gates

                           C
For you it's a matter of blood

                                 G
Drink well from your bottomless cup

                        Am
And bask in your good fortune

                          F
For us it's a matter of charging the gates

                           G            Am   
For you it's a matter of blood and connections

                                           C
So where will you be when you tire of the fun

                                               F
The escape, the charade, and your time in the sun

                                     C     
I know everyone does their own reinvention

                  G                    Am
But yours has a taste that's hard to swallow

                                           C
And what will you tell of your tenure with us?

                                                   F
Will you build yourself up, like the size of your hunt?

                                                  C
If they're anything like what you've been telling us,

                    G
Those stories will make true believers

                         C
Of the chumps and the fools.

                G                     Am
So why do you speak with that accent now?

           F                          C  
Everyone knows you're not from the streets.