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Bruised Acoustic
Jacks Mannequin
Text File
Capo third
Em: 022003
Csus4: 024400
Verse:
C
I've got my things, I'm good to go
Em
You met me at the terminal
Am F C Cmaj7
Just one more plane ride and it's done.
C
We stood like statues at the gate
Em
Vacation's come and gone too late
Am F
There's so much sun where I'm from
C Cmaj7 C
I had to give it away, had to give you away.
C Em
And we spent four days on an island
Am
At your family's old hotel.
F
Sometimes perfection can be,
C Cmaj7
It can be perfect Hell,
F
Perfect.
Chorus:
F
Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes
C
That I am not there
F
I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this
C
Like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.
F
Don't fly fast. Oh, pilot can you help me
C
Can you make this last? This plane is all I got
F
So keep it steady now, cos every inch you see is
C Cmaj7
Bruised
Verse:
C
I lace my Chucks I walk the aisle,
Em
I take my pills, the babies cry.
Am
All I hear
F C Cmaj7
Is what's playing through the in-flight radio
C
Now every word of every song
Em Am
I've ever heard that made me want to stay
F C Cmaj7
Is what's playing through the in-flight radio
C Cmaj7 F
And I, I am finally waking up.
Chorus
F
Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes
C
That I am not there
F
I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this
C
Like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.
F
Don't fly fast. Oh, pilot can you help me
C
Can you make this last? This plane is all I got
F
So keep it steady now, cos every inch you see is
C Cmaj7
Bruised
Bridge:
C Em
So read your books but stay out late
Am
Some nights, some nights.
C Em Am
And don't think that you can't stop by the bar.
C Em Am
You haven't shown your face here since the bad news.
C Em
I'm here til close, with fingers crossed,
F G
Each night cos your place isn't far.
F C (Csus4)
And hours pass, and hours pass.
F
Yeah, Yeah
Chorus
F
Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes
C
That I am not there
F
I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this
C
Like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.
F
Don't fly fast. Oh, pilot can you help me
C
Can you make this last? This plane is all I got
F
So keep it steady now, cos every inch you see is
C Cmaj7
Bruised