Jonathan Coulton – Red Shirt (Guitar)

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Intro: A D A D A D A D Verse 1:
A              D
You hold up one hand

        F#m
Everyone waits

            E
Until we can move again

A               D
The burden of command

             F#m
Stands you up straight

            G
Something to prove again

             D
Blood in your eyes

              Bm
Screams on the radio

              A               D
They say, "Get out of there!"

         Bm
We aren't finished yet

                E            D
You tell them to grow a pair
Chorus:
A                          E
They said this air would be breathable

F#m                       D
Get in, get out again, and no one gets hurt

A                      E
Something is pulling me up the hill

      D
I look down in my red shirt

      Bm             A
I look down in my red shirt
D A D A D A D Verse 2:
A            D
This familiar place

         F#m
Sun in my eyes

               E
Right where I'm supposed to be

A              D
I can read your face

       F#m
I'm not surprised

           G
You move in close to me

        D
Then you decide

       Bm
Now I'm remembering

              A           D
I've seen this one before

            Bm
I can't stop watching it

            E             D
So what am I running for?
Chorus:
A                          E
They said this air would be breathable

F#m                       D
Get in, get out again, and no one gets hurt

A                      E
You nod to me and point up the hill

      D
I look down in my red shirt

      Bm             F#m    E  D
I look down in my red shirt

         F#m    E  D
At my red shirt
Verse 3:
A               D
I don't hear the sound

          F#m
Everything slows

         E
All of it falls away

A                D
They don't turn around

        F#m
Everyone knows

           G
It won't be them today

              D
Instead it was me

           Bm
Go down dramatically

             A          D
Stretching it out a bit

            Bm
Still no one notices

                  E          D
When they write me out of it
Chorus:
A                          E
They said this air would be breathable

F#m                    D
I see the naked sky and I taste the dirt

A                    E
Dark at the edges and closing in

      D
I look down in my red shirt

      Bm             A
I look down in my red shirt
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