Parquet Courts – Tenderness (Guitar)

     G
We've come to replace your clock's old stubborn hands

    E                 E7       E
We are the answer to why they never had a chance

       G
It was not so long ago that the world was mostly slow

           E                E7
The age of iron, steam and speed

          E
Turned a stroll to a stampede

          C                  E               G
But we've come to increase time in between ticks

               C              A
And there is romance in the slow dances

                   E
'Cause they're fertile in hush, futile in haste

                E
These are your nerves, this is how they taste

               D                                C
Well I can't count how many times I've been outdone by nihilism

  G                                    D
Joined the march that splits an open heart into a schism

      D                              C
And I cower at the thought of other people's expectations

          G               D
And yet still hand over mine to them

    G
Travel where you are, tourism is sin

               E               E7                   E
These are the ruins we left behind, you can't take pictures of them

     G
If what they say is true, then you become what you chew

       E
If it decays spit it out, affectation is a drought

           C                   E                        G
That you wait through when you hate everything that you do

           C                 A
You wanna live outside the groove, then fine

           E
But it's there like a flower blooming in your ears

              E
Open up your mouth, pollinate your peers

           D                                C
Nothing reminds the mind of power like the cheap odor of plastic

  G                                   D
Leaking fumes we crave, consume, the rush it feels fantastic

         D                             C
But like power turns to mold, like a junkie going cold

            G                D
I need the fix of a little tenderness