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Bruised
Jacks Mannequin
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I just made it with a capo on the first fret. you can use basic open chords now if you want.
Verse:
D
I've got my things, I'm good to go
Fm
You met me at the terminal
bm G D Dsus
Just one more plane ride and it's done.
D
We stood like statues at the gate
Fm
Vacation's come and gone too late
bm G
There's so much sun where I'm from
D Dsus D
I had to give it away, had to give you away.
D Fm
And we spent four days on an island
bm
At your family's old hotel.
G
Sometimes perfection can be,
D D
It can be perfect Hell,
G
Perfect.
Chorus:
G
Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes
D
That I am not there
G
I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this
D
Like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.
G
Don't fly fast. Oh, pilot can you help me
D
Can you make this last? This plane is all I got
G
So keep it steady now, cos every inch you see is
D Dsus
Bruised
Verse:
I lace my Chucks I walk the aisle,
I take my pills, the babies cry.
All I hear
Is what's playing through the in-flight radio
Now every word of every song
I've ever heard that made me want to stay
Is what's playing through the in-flight radio
And I, I am finally waking up.
Chorus
Bridge:
D Fm
So read your books but stay out late
bm
Some nights, some nights.
D Fm bm
And don't think that you can't stop by the bar.
D Fm bm
You haven't shown your face here since the bad news.
D Fm
I'm here til close, with fingers crossed,
G A
Each night cos your place isn't far.
G D
And hours pass, and hours pass.
G
Yeah, Yeah
Chorus