The Lawrence Arms – Paradise Shitty (Guitar)

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Metropole 2014 Submitted by: [email protected] Key: G Tuning: Standard EADGBe Chords used: Em - 022000 C - x32010 G - 320033 D - xx0232 Bm - x24432 D/F# - 2x023x Intro: Em-Bm-C-Bm- x2 Verse 1:

Em
Save a song for

me to sing boy if I wanna play a

       C
song tonight oh oh

Em
Is there something

I could wail out if I wanna wail

         C
by candlelight? oh oh

            Em
I'm feeling sick

            Bm
I'm feeling old

            Em  D
I'm feeling weak

             C
I feel that snow

           Em
Down in my knees

           Bm
Down in my soul

            Em  D
In place of guts

           C
I've got a hole

     D         Em
Like everybody else

          C
I've ever known

Chorus 1:

Em
Baby this ain't

D
home to me

   C
no matter what

     G
they say

    Em
The grass is too

     D
damn green here

        C
and the hearts

             G
are dull and grey

           G
So take me down

        Bm
to that city

          Em
where the girls

           C
just look okay

      C
It's about all

      D
I can take it

I've stood too

            G    D C D G D C D
long in one place

Verse 2:

Em
  Strap me to the station

wagon roof and drive

                C
me out into the hills

   Em
It may sound like I'm

screaming from the car but I'm just screaming

     C
from the thrill I'm

    Em            Bm
so alive I'm so afraid

               Em
That I've been wasting

       D             C
what's left of these days

             Em
These days I feel with

       Bm             Em D
a cold heart It's easier

           C
to keep it hard Just

D
grab your shit and

Em             C
meet me in the yard

Chorus 2:

Em
Baby this ain't

D
home to me

   C
no matter what

     G
they say

    Em
The grass is too

     D
damn green here

        C
and the hearts

             G
are dull and grey

           G
So take me down

        Bm
to that city

          Em
where the girls

           C
just look okay

      C
It's about all

      D
I can take it

I've stood too

            G    D/F# Em C G D/F# Em C
long in one place

G D/F# Em C G D/F# Em C Bridge:

Em         C
  Lollipop dreams and

          G
candycane waves

                    D
Are gonna hurt like hell

                   Em
when they crumble away

                    C
Because a beautiful youth

                    G
hurts worst when it dies

           D
A rotten reminder of the

          C
days we decided we'd rather

                     Em
go big and then rot away

               D
We'd give into love

                 C
and wind up castaways

We said "fuck all the old

                     Em
boring shits we've become"

                  D
So we hoarded our dreams

                   C
and we burnt every one

    D             Em
And fuck me man I knew

             C
not what I'd done

D              Em
Fuck us man we knew

              C
not what we'd done

Em             D
Fuck us man we knew

              C
not what we'd done

D
Man we were just

            G  D/F#
having some fun

Chorus 3: Slower beat

Em
Baby this ain't

D
home to me

   C
no matter what

     G
they say

    Em
The grass is too

     D
damn green here

        C
and the hearts

             G
are dull and grey

   G
So take me down

        Bm
to that city

          Em
where the girls

           C
just look okay

      C
It's about all

      D--
I can take it

I've stood too

                 G D/F# Em D C(hold)
long in one place