Lost On Purpose chords by Mark Heard
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Intro 1
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (Dsus4) (D major) (G major)
Verse 1
Twilight (D major) star burns cold
blue; it burns (A minor) cold blue (D major) in my eyes
(G major) Thousand light years from the hot blue of
a thou (E minor) sand other dying skies (D major)
Let's keep on walking past the brick
walls (E minor) spray- (F sharp minor) painted with
skulls (B minor) of blue
(G major) Matching moving moonlit silhouettes
Past the (E minor) playground with the padlock
and (Asus4) chain on the gate
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Verse 2
(D major) Lost on purpose, hey, (A major)
(D major) lost (C major) on purpose (Dsus4) (C major)
(G major) We could try to figure it out,
but (A major) we don't trust us
(D major) Lost on purpose, hey,
(Dsus4) lost (C major) on purpose (Dsus4) (C major)
(G major) We could turn around and go home,
but the truth (A major) might hurt us (Asus4) (A major)
Verse 3
(D major) Skyscraper looks like an x- ray,
(A minor) streetlights look (D major) infrared
(G major) Bus fume aphrodisiac slaps
at the back (E minor) of my head
(D major) The night is in your turn- signal eyes,
(E minor) lipstick (F sharp minor) on your coffee (B minor) cup
(G major) Gimme a tip for the waitress
The natives are rest (Asus4) less,
we gotta get out of this (A major) dump (Asus4)
Verse 4
(D major) Lost on purpose, hey, (Dsus4) lost on (C major) purpose
(G major) We could try to figure it out,
but (A major) we don't trust us
Hey, (D major) lost on purpose, hey,
lost (C major) on (A minor) purpose (C major)
(G major) We could turn around and go home,
but the (A major) truth might hurt us
Interlude 1
(A major) (E minor) (F sharp minor) (G major) (B minor) (E minor) (F sharp minor) (G major)
(E minor) (F sharp minor) (G major) (B minor) (A major) (Asus4)
(A major) (D major)
Verse 5
You can smell the electric (D major) sky,
sur (A minor) plus souls budging (D major) in droves (G major)
Trance- dancing to the murmur of the city,
the heart (E minor) beat of hell,
the grindstone of chrome
(D major) Walking in silence in the temples
of the dark gods (E minor)
Icon (F sharp minor) s with (B minor) eyes that can't see,
(G major) ears that don't hear and the nerves
that never wince with the (E minor) pain
we're feeling (Asus4)
(D major) Grey dawn filters through steel
(Dsus4) stalag (D major) mites,
(A minor) eight minutes from the (D major) dying sun
Safe (G major) from the fury,
safe from the fire of the (E minor) great unlearned (D major)
We sleepless dreamers straddle
(E minor) yellow- chequered (F sharp minor) chariots (B minor)
(G major) You and me, we're the prisoners of the
(E minor) panorama of re (Asus4) volving door (A major) s
Verse 6
(D major) Lost on purpose, hey,
(C major) lost on purpose (Dsus4) (C major)
(G major) We could try to figure it out,
(Asus4) but we (A major) don't trust us
(D major) Lost on purpose, yeah, (C major) lost on purpose
(G major) We could turn around and go home,
but the (Asus4) truth might hurt us (A major)
(D major) Lost on purpose, hey, (C major) lost on purpose
(G major) We could try to figure it out,
but (A major) we don't trust us
(D major) Lost on purpose, oh, lost (C major) on (A minor) purpose (C major)
(G major) We could turn around and go home, but
the truth (A major) might hurt us, hey
Outro 1
(D major) (C major)
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