First Aid Kit – King Of The World (Guitar)

Capo 5
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Transcribed 18/1/2012 by Jon Malmin ([email protected]) Very simple and fun song. The chord progression is the same all the way through, (except for the short trumpet interludes) [Intro] C G C G C G D D [Verse 1]
  C           G             C           G
At ten in the morning I was laughing at something

C      G       D
At the airport terminal

  C            G       C     G       C         G   D
At nine in the evening I was sitting crying to you over the phone

     C            G             C         G
While passing the border from a state to another

            C      G               D
Filled with people whom I couldn't help to relate to

      C          G          C               G
And we stopped a while at a roadside restaurant

          C            G               D
Where the waitress was sitting outside smoking in her car

            C        G    C            G
She had that look of total fear in her eyes

          C               G                   D
And as we drove away from there she looked at me and she smiled
[Chorus]
      C         G         C               G
I keep running around, trying to find the ground

       C              G        D
But my head is in the stars my feet are in the sky

        C         G         C           G
Well I'm nobody's baby, I'm everybody's girl

        C        G                D
I'm the queen of nothing, I'm the kii--ing of the world
[Interlude] G C G C G C D D [Verse 2]
    C        G             C                 G
And once you asked me well what's my biggest fear

     C            G        D
That things would always remain so unclear

    C            G       C    G
That one day I'd wake up all alone

       C       G                D
With a big family and emptiness deep in my bones

     C             G        C           G
That I would be so blinded, turn a deaf ear

            C                G        D
And that my fake laugh would suddenly sound sincere
[Chorus]
            C         G
Now I wasn't born for anything

       C            G
Wasn't born to say anything

C             G       D
I'm just here now and soon I'll be gone

   C         G         C           G
I'm nobody's baby, I'm everybody's girl

        C        G                D
I'm the queen of nothing, I'm the kiii--ing of the world
[Interlude] G C G C G C D D [Verse 3]
   C      G             C          G
Now every day there's a short intermission

C         G                D
  While I sleep they start dimming the lights

C               G            C            G
  But I've seen everything I ever want to see

           C              G               D
Screaming "FIRE!!" in the theater, people taking their seats

C                 G             C            G
  Watch it all go down like the stone in the stream

    C               G             D
You fall for your reflection, you drown in the dream
[Bridge]
C                   G    C                  G
  Tell me something real, tell me something true

       C       G                      D
I just want to feel there's something left that I can do

       C         G         C           G
But I'm nobody's baby, I'm everybody's girl

        C        G                D
I'm the queen of nothing, I'm the kiii-ing of the world
[Outro] G C G C G C D D G