Misremembered chords by Fred Thomas

SimplifiedEb · G · A · Bm

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
There  (G major) was something
I was trying to say,
but I kept losing my grip
on the slippery meaning.
The same way Colbert's efforts
can get swallowed
A 
by the start of the spring,  (A major) 
G 
when everything's beginning.  (G major) 
Dehydrated dreamers
practice shitty tricks in the grass,
weak ollies and in -gang ankle taps.
These are 5K stragglers,
dealership hagglers,
A 
sad  (A major) -faced bystanders
on those gas station cameras
G 
 (G major) I  believe that was something
I was trying to say,
but I was followed by a
nondescript chemical smell
An amateur witch cast her
first binding spell
A 
And the  (A major) laughter of my neighbors
in their trailers
Bm 
punctuated those  (B minor) awful
Awful edges as your hometown
G 
keeps extending its bleed  (G major) 
Every time that you leave
Bm 
I've  (B minor) never seen that before
Awful passages from books
G 
you didn't actually  (G major) read
Yeah
And we all navigate the having
of bodies and histories
It's a snuff film existence
Matthew writes poetry about coppiness,
loneliness,
A 
and the home (A major) liness of his childhood
G 
And I do my  (G major) best to stand in
as some simulating sibling
A satellite rendition
of an oddball older brother
A mythical creature
who's got his shit together
A 
But it never (A major) ,  but it never,
G 
but it never, but it never worked  (G major) 
And there was something
I was trying to say
But the paperwork at the plasma center
ate up the first half of the day
And the creeps in the cars,
they just got in my way
A 
I was looking  (A major) for my friends
Bm 
It was last call again  (B minor) 
When the control part of you
called your twenties
G 
has finally extin (G major) guished you now,
Bm 
you still need some place to go.  (B minor) 
Just remember
Every story, every word, every lyric,
G 
 (G major) every mention
Everything that I said,
everything that it meant
But it's okay, it's okay
There was something I was trying to say
There was something I was trying to say
There was something I was trying to say
There was something I was trying to say
There was something I was trying,
A 
I was trying to say  (A major) you