dangerous chords by Liz Stringer

SimplifiedAm · G · F · C

GuitarPianoUkulele

Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
Our
F 
love was quite the whirlwind
G 
Married by the time I was 19
Am 
Living in a prefab out in
F 
G 
Cremorne
Am 
The force of a fire front was raging in you
G 
F 
We fucked like we fought,
ripped the flesh from the sinew
G 
No greater fever between
Am 
any two
F 

New- Play with audio & scroll

Upgrade to play 20,000+ songs ads free, and enjoy playing with music.

Get now

Verse 2

And you'd say, darling,

sometimes I feel dangerous

Darkness stretching,

no light nowhere, dangerous

Verse 3
Am 
You quit the navy, got your Union tatts
F 
And with your land legs your great
thirst came back
G 
While your children grew up quiet
Am 
F 
G 
in another room
Am 
You packed it  in when I
packed up the kids
F 
Said you were terrified of all
those things I told you that you did
G 
Said you didn't understand the
Am 
rage that could devour you
F 

Verse 4
C 
G 
And you said, darling,
Am 
F 
C 
G 
sometimes I feel dangerous
Am 
Darkness waiting, no light nowhere,
F 
dangerous
C 
G 

Verse 5
When there's fighting in
C 
the factions
Am 
There's no decisions,
F 
just a set of reactions
Am 
G 
C 
F 

Verse 6
C 
G 
We drove the camel pelt country
Am 
down the shimmering Hume
F 
To where your aunts rode
C 
trams in Wisteria hue
G 
And you set about hosing the tiles
Am 
F 
in your sticky soul
C 
G 
You weeded out those rotten roots
Am 
from down in the marrow
F 
Taught the Union boys the power in
C 
the straight and the narrow
G 
Am 
To them you were a father, a healer, a tower,
F 
a force

Interlude 1

Your own father

Verse 7
Am 
,
you couldn't talk to easily
F 
To say, there's something in you,
G 
and I'm terrified it might be in me
Am 
So you grew up pushing it away
F 

Verse 8
G 
Am 
But I'm so proud of you,
and my love is a monster
F 
Ain't luck that got you through
G 
You earned everything that belongs to ya
Our kids will come 'round,
Am 
they gotta find out for themselves
F 

Verse 9
C 
G 
Am 
That darling, the truth is sometimes,
F 
C 
G 
it's dangerous
Am 
Darkness stretches, there's no light nowhere,
F 
C 
G 
dangerous
C 
But there are floodlights hiding,
Am 
F 
waiting for us  to do the deciding
G 
C 
There is hope under the heavy,
Am 
high tightrope
F 
We're all walking over our brevity
G 
C 
There is bounty in the burden,
Am 
F 
G 
Am 
a freedom in never being certain
F 
C 
G 
Am 
Dangerous
F 
Dangerous