The Weakerthans – Manifest (Ukulele)

  C                                      G
i want to call requests through heating-vents,

    F                                     C
and hear them answered with a whispered, "no."

   C                                  G
to crack the code of muscle, slacken, tense.

    F                             C
let every second step in boots on snow

C                                       G
complete your name with accents i can't place,

     F                           C
that stumble where the syllables combine.

     C                             G
take depositions from a stranger's face.

      F                      C
paint every insignificance a sign.

   F                                G
so tell me nothing matters, less or more.

C                               F
say, "whatever we think actions are,

      F                            G
we'll never know what anything was for."

    C                           F
if "near is just as far away as far,"

        C                       G
and i'm permitted one act i can save,

  F                                  C
i choose to sit here next to you and wave.