Key: B minor•
Verse 1
apartment in the Mortal City
so she has to use electric heat.
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And tonight was the first
Verse 2
date with the brother
He lived a couple streets away
sometime
Sometime was tonight
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Verse 3
The radio gave updates on the ice storm
while she made the dinner
They said, from all the talk,
you shouldn't drive or even walk
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Bm
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we're asking everyone to turn off their power
G
Em
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They need it at the hospital.
Verse 4
then she called him up
Maybe now they shouldn't meet,
She met him at the door with
D
A
a blanket and a candle
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Em
I had to turn my power off.
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Verse 5
the streets were dark tonight,
It was like another century
C
With dim lamps and candles lighting up the icy trees
Verse 6
make a city
Where you can't see the sky and
you can't feel the ground?
Verse 7
I have this feeling that this city's dying
He said, it's not dying it's
the people who are dying
Verse 8
Bm
We had all this technology our dreams
were bold and vague
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A
And then one city got bad planners,
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G
one city got the plague.
Em
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Bm
Verse 9
He asked why did you move here? She said,
for the job
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A
so lonely
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There's no one I can talk to,
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Em
you know I don't even know your brother.
A
Verse 10
sometimes at night I walk out by the river
The city's one big town,
the water turns it upside down
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A
they love other people
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G
they want their power lunches.
Em
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Verse 11
I heard the same newscast you did
I unplugged everything,
I looked out the window
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Bm
I watched as one by one the lights went off
A
G
So they could give their power
A
Verse 12
she thought this over,
They sat together in a dark
room in the Mortal City
get spaghetti on them.
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Verse 13
Then came the awkward moment after dinner,
what to do,
The ice was still falling,
the streets were still dangerous
Verse 14
this neighborhood was not the greatest.
where a couch would've been
She felt her stomach sink,
Verse 15
she felt like she could hardly think
Bm
She said, I never should have rented this
apartment in the Mortal City
The cold comes through
eve crack I put my hand up to
D
C
The radiator doesn't work,
Verse 16
sleep in her bed
It was a matter of survival.
Verse 17
sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks, hats
If there was ever any thought of what would
happen in that bed tonight
There was no question now
They could barely move
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C
They were wrapped up like ornaments waiting
for another season.
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Em
Bm
Verse 18
They lay in bed,
they listened to the pelting ice
He said my brother's not a bad guy,
he's just quiet
I wished you liked this city
Verse 19
She said, maybe I do.
Bm
I think I have a special kind
of hearing tonight
I hear the neighbors upstairs
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G
I hear my heart beating
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Bm
I hear one thousand hearts beating
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Em
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at the hospital
Verse 20
Outro 1
We are not lost in the Mortal City
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