The Lawrence Arms – Beautiful Things (Guitar)

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Metropole 2014 Submitted by: [email protected] Key: G Tuning: Standard EADGBe Chords used: G - 320033 D - xx0232 Em - 022000 C - x32010
Intro:
G--
G--Em-- x2
Verse 1:
G
  Typewriter tell me

     Em
what year it was

G
  Typing to the rhythm

             Em
of a century on the cusp

C
  We were out there smoking

       D        C
on the sidewalks We were

                    G
lovers drinking to another

            D
song on the jukebox
Chorus 1:
Em    C
Don't kill all the

G         D
beautiful things

      Em
I was searching for

C            G
truth in the dust

      D    Em
of my days I was

   C        G
so lost and I

       C    G Em G Em
was so young
Verse 2:
G
  Cinematic I was cynical

       Em
on the city bus

G
  literary wrote lyrics

       Em
like I thought I was

C
  we were sleeping racing

        D      C
for the future bicycle

                 G       D
tires spinning revolution
Chorus 2:
Em    C
Don't kill all the

G         D
beautiful things

      Em
I was searching for

C            G
truth in the dust

      D    Em
of my days I was

   C        G
so lost and I

       C    G Em D C
was so young
Bridge:
Em             C
  The city was sweating

       Em         C
in the summer heat

       Em
I wrote  melodies of

   C        Em
regret to a deaf

           C
and empty street

Em       C
I was so lonely it

 G         D
started to rain

    Em
the lightning and

C
thunder were 

G          D
singing my name

          Em
I thought those

            C
songs could save me

          Em
I thought those

            C
songs could save me
Chorus 3:
Em    C
Don't kill all the

G         D
beautiful things

      Em
I was searching for

C            G
truth in the dust

      D    Em
of my days I was

   C        G
so lost and I

       C
was so young

Em           D
  We were so lost

    G          C    G Em G Em
and we were so young

G     Em
Don't kill all the

D         C(hold)
beautiful things