Emerald Street chords by Alexisonfire
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Intro 1
(A minor)
(G major) (C major) (F major) (A minor) (G major) (C major) (G major) (F major)
(A minor)
Verse 1
Pregnant teens on the Barton (A minor) street bus
Homeless people (F major) liv (A minor) ing off crust
And there's a beat-up town town car,
it's starting to rust
Hard soles are kicking up dust
Half a million people living in the corpse
(G major) of the brown (F major) brick (A minor) 50's
To the north, all the small town outcasts
are now big city bourgeoisie (E minor)
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Verse 2
All the boys in the (E minor) halfway houses
(F major) Wave to the girls of Emerald Street (A minor)
Verse 3
Our calloused (A minor) fingers, blood (G major) red on the brick,
but we (F major) hold on (hold on) (A minor)
We'll never falter, though they want (G major) us to slip,
we (F major) hold on (hold on)
Verse 4
The (F major) (A minor) (G major) (C major) (G major) (F major) (A minor)
(G major) (C major) (G major) (F major) (A minor) desperate,
downtown stealing bikes
(G major) Drunks in the village are picking fight (F major) s
So, police (A minor) like the streets
to read them their rights
(G major) No controlling hot summer (C major) (G major) nights
The (F major) sun (A minor) goes down on the edge of town,
at the end (G major) of everyday (F major)
(A minor) We sit and watch the stacks on fire,
Verse 5
to the east across the bay
(E minor)
All the boys in the halfway houses
(F major) Wave to the girls of Emerald Street (A minor)
Verse 6
Our calloused (A minor) fingers, blood (G major) red on the brick,
but we (F major) hold on (hold on)
(A minor) We'll never falter, though they want (G major) us to slip,
we (F major) hold on (holdon) (A minor)
Interlude 1
(G major) (C major) (A minor)
Verse 7
There's something in the (A minor)
church belfry (G major) (F major)
(A minor) On the corner of Victoria
and king (G major) (F major)
(A minor) And it screams out into
the night (G major) (C major) (F major)
It (A minor) sings this city's
plight
(G major) (C major) (F major)
Verse 8
(E minor)
All the boys in the halfway houses
(F major) Wave to the girls of Emerald Street (A minor)
Verse 9
(A minor)
Hold on, (G major) (F major) hold on (A minor)
Verse 10
Our calloused (A minor) fingers, blood (G major) red on the brick,
but we (F major) hold on (hold on)
(A minor) We'll never falter, though they want (G major) us to slip,
we (F major) hold on (hold on)
Outro 1
(F major) (A minor) (G major) (C major) (F major) (A minor)
(G major) (C major) (F major)
Emerald Street
Alexisonfire
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