Kevin Devine – Keep Ringing Your Bell (Ukulele)

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NO CAPO
chords:
   F#m    B7
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D--4------1--|
A--4------2--|
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INTRO

Emajor
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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
and then skip back excited to wherever they are.

riff 1 I take risks in the stall while they talk by the bar. I won't go back outside 'til my memory starts erasing itself into something less brutal, 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.

RIFF 1
"I take risks"  "I won't go"    "erasing itself"
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"beautiful bullshit i pretend to belong to"
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