Kevin Devine – Keep Ringing Your Bell (Guitar)

NO CAPO
chords:
   F#m    B7    B/C
e--0------2------2-----|
B--0------0------4-----|
G--2------2------4-----|
D--4------1------4-----|
A--4------2------3-----|
E--X------x------x-----|

[Intro]
E
e---------------------0-|
B----------0------------|
G-----------------1-----|
D------2----------------|
A-----------------------|
E--0-0---0----0-0---0---|

E
I'm counting out dollars while I limp to your brownstone.

      A                         Am
I can just barely cover what I need to get back home.

        F#m
And I know we're allowed indiscretion in our lives,

                B7
but I've been making mine count every night for a while.

        E
I keep deleting your number and name from my cell phone,

       A                        Am
but I call every day; that's as far as my act goes.

         F#m
What you have helps me turn down the noise that I make,

             B7
but when it stops it just pokes me and keeps me awake.

     E
My friends always warned about living cliches

        A                           Am
but my friends aren't there when I meet you these days.

         F#m
I count people and street signs from the back of your car

         B7                       B/C
and then skip back excited to wherever they are.

       C#m
I take risks in the stall while they talk by the bar.

        F#m
I won't go back outside 'til my memory starts

A
erasing itself into something less brutal,

     B                       B/C
some beautiful bullshit I pretend to belong to.

        E
For as long as the truth tucks itself into bed,

         A                        Am
and the beat of my heart and the heat of my breath

         F#m
keep me hopeful and distant and proud of myself,

           B7                                          E
I'll keep ringing your bell every night around twelve.