Vampire Weekend – How Long (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Versions (2)

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[Verse 1]
C                   Am
Tough choice, don't make me laugh

   E                   F
My life's a joke, your life's a gas

    C                 Am
You broke my heart at midnight mass

    E                F
Now I'm the ghost of Christmas past

    C               Am
The only choice you gave to me

   E             F
Is one I took reluctantly

       C              Am
'Cause when we play democracy

    E             F
You always take immunity
[Chorus 1]
C     Am           E           F             C
  How long 'til we sink to the bottom of the sea?

    Am        E     F
How long, how long?

C     Am           E             F            C
  How long 'til we sink and it's only you and me?

    Am        E     F
How long, how long?
[Post-Chorus 1]
    C         Am          E      F
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)

    C         Am    E   F
How long? (La-la la-la)

    C         Am          E      F
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)

    C         Am    E   F
How long? (La-la la-la)
[Verse 2]
C                   Am
What's the point of getting clean?

       E                 F
You'll wear the same old dirty jeans

C                   Am
What's the point of being seen?

      E                     F
Those eyes are cruel, those eyes are mean

C                   Am
What's the point of human beings?

  E               F
A Sharpie face on tangerines

C                  Am
Why's it felt like Halloween

      E           F
Since Christmas 2017?
[Chorus 2]
C     Am    E  F
  How long?

C     Am        E     F
  How long, how long?

C     Am           E             F            C
  How long 'til we sink and it's only you and me?

    Am        E     F
How long, how long?
[Post-Chorus 2]
    C         Am          E      F
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)

    C         Am    E   F
How long? (La-la la-la)

    C         Am          E      F
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)

    C         Am    E   F
How long? (La-la la-la)
C Am E F C Am E F [Verse 3]
C                  Am
Getting to the top

       E                   F
Wasn't supposed to be this hard

    C              Am
The house is on Mulholland Drive

    E               F
The car's on Sunset Boulevard

    C              Am
The registration's here with me

    E             F
But neither of us has the key

C                Am
We can live down in the flats

    E                 F
The hills will fall eventually
[Chorus 3]
C     Am           E           F             C
  How long 'til we sink to the bottom of the sea?

    Am        E     F
How long, how long?

C     Am           E             F            C
  How long 'til we sink and it's only you and me?

    Am        E     F
How long, how long?
[Post-Chorus 3]
    C         Am          E      F
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)

    C         Am    E   F
How long? (La-la la-la)

    C         Am          E      F
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)

    C         Am    E   F
How long? (La-la la-la)

    C     Am  E  F
How long?

    C     Am  E  F
How long?

    C     Am  E  F
How long?

    C     Am  E  F
How long?
[Outro] C Am E F C Am E F
C     Am           E           F             C
  How long 'til we sink to the bottom of the sea?

    Am        E
How long, how long?