Death Cab for Cutie – Rand Mcnally (Guitar)

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From the album "Asphalt Meadows" (2022) Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/0wejso6CHHEEqvTD3f3gBz?si=27339f366d0d442b [Intro] | Dm | F | Bb | Fadd9 | [Verse 1]
Dm                  F
 Rand McNally atlas, cheap coffee stain

     Bb                            Fadd9
Now, I wouldn't know how to use one with my life at stake

        Dm                          F
You were waiting on a payphone at a truck stop in Houston

Bb                          Fadd9
Trying to call your mother, ’cause she's a worrier

Dm                  F
 Handful of twenties in your overcoat

       Bb                  Fadd9
Always rolled into a pillow on some stranger's floor

   Dm                     F
And you tell these stories with happy endings

Bb                   Fadd9
Only when interrupted before they’re over
[Chorus]
    Bb
But I won't let the light fade

F
 I won't let the light fade

F                    C/E  Dm    C
Chasing these glows into dawn

Bb
 I won't let the light fade

F
 I won't let the light fade

F               C/E      Dm
 Falling asleep in their arms
[Instrumental] | Dm | F | Bb | Fadd9 | [Verse 2]
Dm                       F
 It seemed these highways were never-ending

Bb                      Fadd9
Circling odds and evens, the numbers ascending

Dm                       F
 Searching through static in the Wyoming plains

   Bb                            Fadd9
We danced to both types of music, as the old joke claims

     Dm                  F
And I wanted for nothing, I couldn't rent

   Bb                             Fadd9
We lived on whiskey and Twizzlers, and youth's discontent

         Dm                 F
With this Rand McNally atlas dog-eared and frayed

     Bb                  Fadd9
Like Old Testament verses that don't make sense in this decade
[Chorus]
Bb
 Don’t let the light fade

F
 I won’t let the light fade

F                    C/E  Dm    C
 Chasing these glows into dawn

Gm
 I won't let the light fade

Dm
 I won’t let the light fade

F               C/E      Dm    C
 Falling asleep in their arms

Bb
 But I won't let the light fade

F
 I won't let the light fade

C                         Dm
 Chasing these glows into dawn
[Bridge]
        Gm
And I'm holding on

Bb
Holding on
[Instrumental] | Dm | F | Bb | Fadd9 | [Outro]
Dm
 I won’t let the light fade

F                          Bb    Fadd9
 I won't let the light fade

Dm
 I won't let the light fade

F                          Bb    Fadd9
 I won't let the light fade

Dm
 I won’t let the light fade

F                          Bb    F
 I won't let the light fade