Intro: Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl A# A#maj7 Gm F D# A# D# F -x2- Verse: A# Back back way back A#maj7 Gm F I used to front like Angkor Wat, Mechanicsburg, Anchorage and Dar es Salaam D# A# While home from New York was champagne and disco D# F Tapes from l.a. slash San Francisco A# A#maj7 But actually Oakland and not Alameda Gm F Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader D# A# Mine was entombed within boombox and Walkman D# F I was a hoarder but girl, that was back then Interlude: A# A#maj7 Gm F Chorus: A# A#maj7 Gm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out F What you on about? D# A# D# F I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones A# A#maj7 Gm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house F Such a modest mouse D# A# D# F I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone A# A#maj7 Gm F Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Interlude: D# A# D# F Verse: A# A#maj7 Ancestors told me that their girl was better Gm F She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather D# A# I just ignored all the tales of a past life D# F Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife A# A#maj7 And punks who would laugh when they saw us together Gm F Well they didn't know how to dress for the weather D# A# I can still see them there huddled on Astor D# F Snow falling slow to the sound of the Master Chorus: A# A#maj7 Gm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out F What you on about? D# A# D# F I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones A# A#maj7 Gm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house F Such a modest mouse D# A# D# F I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone Interlude: A# A#maj7 Gm F D# A# D# F Verse: A# A#maj7 Wisdom's a gift but you'd trade it for youth Gm F Age is an honour - it's still not the truth D# A# We saw the stars when they hid from the world D# F You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl A# A#maj7 Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her Gm F The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her D# A# We don't know the true death - the true way of all flesh D# F Everyone's dying but girl - you're not old yet Chorus: A# A#maj7 Gm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out F What you on about? D# A# D# F I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones A# A#maj7 Gm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house F Such a modest mouse D# A# D# F I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone A# A#maj7 Gm The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out F What you on about? D# A# D# F I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones A# A#maj7 Gm I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house F Such a modest mouse D# A# D# F I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone A# A#maj7 Gm F Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl Outro: D# A# D# F A#
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