The City Has Sex chords by Bright Eyes
Verse 1
D
G
C
The city has sex with itself, I suppose
D
As the concrete collides,
G
D
the scenery grows
G
And the lonely once bandaged
C
lay fully exposed
D
Having undressed their wounds
for each other
Verse 2
G
And there is a boy in a basement
C
with a four track machine
D
G
He's been strumming and screaming all night,
down there
The tape hiss will cover
C
the words that he sings
D
But then they say it's better
to bury your sadness
Dm
D
In a
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Verse 3
C
graveyard or garden
G
that waits for the spring
Am
C
To awake from its sleep
D
and burst into green
G
And I've cried and you would
Em
think I would better for it
D
But the sadness just sleeps
C
and it stays in your spine
Verse 4
C
G
For the rest of your life
C
And I've learned and you'd think
Em
I'd be something more now
D
But it just goes to show it is
Em
D
C
not what you know
G
It's what you were thinking
at the time.
Am
Em
F
Verse 5
G
This feeling's familiar,
C
I've been here before
D
G
In a kitchen this quiet I waited for
a sign or just something
C
D
That might reassure me of anything
Dm
C
close to meaning or motion
G
(With a reason to move)
Verse 6
Am
A
Am
I need something I
C
D
want to be close to
G
And I scream,
Em
but I still don't know why I do it
C
Em
C
D
Because the sound never stays,
C
it just swells and de cays
Dm
G
D
So what is the point?
Verse 7
G
Em
Why try to fight what is now
so certain?
C
D
The truth is all that I am is a passing
C
G
event that will be forgotten
The City Has Sex
Bright Eyes
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