End Of The Rope chords by They Might Be Giants
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Verse 1
(A minor) {1}
Howthoughtless (D major) (E major) of (F major) me (D minor) (C major)
(A minor) How (E major) (G major) dum (A minor) b can you (E major) be?
(F major) Hopeless, wasn't (D minor) that
What you called (A minor) me and in (F sharpdim) fact
It (D major) was (A minor) even (E major) (A minor) more true (D major) than you (E major) knew
Verse 2
{1} Where did the end of the rope go? (A minor)
(F sharpdim) I (F sharp minor) for (F sharpdim) get now,
(F sharp minor) did (A minor) I let go?
(F major) After you left me (A minor) (D minor) hanging
on your (Bdim) word (G major) s
(B minor) Which (D major) hun (B minor) g down like a rope (A minor)
(E major) Where did (A minor) the en (E major) d (A minor) of it go? (F sharpdim)
(F sharp minor) I'll never (A minor) know
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Verse 3
(A minor)
{2}
You're gone,
(G major) (D major) (E major) but I'm still (F major) there (A minor) (C major)
(A minor) Claw (G major) ing (A minor) at the (E major) air
Now it's (F major) curtains for (D minor) me
And I'll spend (A minor) etern (F sharpdim) ity
Doing (A minor) joy less (E major) cartwheels (A minor)
(D minor) (D major) in the (E major) void
Verse 4
{2} Where did the end of the rope go? (A minor)
(F sharpdim) I (F sharp minor) for (F sharpdim) get now, (F sharp minor) did I (A minor) let go?
(F major) Long ago you (A minor) left me (D minor) hanging
on (A minor) your (B minor) words
Which hung down like a rope from the sky
(E major) Where did (A minor) the end (E major) of it (A minor) go? (F sharpdim)
(F sharp minor) No (E major) one (A minor) can ever know
Interlude 1
(A minor) (D major) (A minor) (E major) (F major) (C major)
(G major) (A minor) (F major) (A minor) (C major) (A minor) (E major) (F major)
(D minor) (A minor) (F sharpdim) (D major) (A minor) (G major) (G sharpdim) (A minor)
(D major) (E major)
Verse 5
(E major) {Instrumental Bridge}
{3}
Where did the en (A minor) d of the rope go?
(F sharp minor) I for (F sharpdim) get now, did I (A minor) let go? (E major)
(F major) Once upon a time you left me (D minor) hanging
from your words
(A minor) Which hung (B minor) down in the ether like
a (B minor) rope from the sky
(E major) Wherever did the end of it (A minor) go?
No one can ever know
Description 1 Contributor?
"End of the Rope" was re (F sharpdim) leased in advance of They
Might Be Giants' 2015 album, Glean
The song speaks about the (A minor) confusion
Verse 6
and feeling of helplessness
that can occur when a person you were relying on gives up on you.
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