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The Less I Knew chords by James Vincent McMorrow

  • G

  • C

  • Em

  • B

    2
  • F

Intro 1
G
Verse 1
G
A beating heart gets thrown
C
G
out of a car in the dark
I find it and I check it for scars
C
and make sure it's clean
G
Then I go back inside
'Cause there's nothing
C
for us here in the night
G
Just a helicopter buzzing nearby,
C
ruining my sleep

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Verse 2
C
G
Em
But I can feel a strong vibration when I look at you,
C
G
C
G
C
you
G
Em
Everybody knows my failures,
C
G
C
well I know theirs too, too
G
Verse 3
Is this what it takes
C
What it takes to be impossibly great?
G
'Cause if it is then I think maybe the less,
Em
G
the less
C
The less I knew the better
G
Please just be kind when I drag myself
C
out on through the line
G
'Cause in the end I think that maybe the less,
Em
G
the less
C
The less I knew the better
G
Now that heart
Verse 4
and me
C
At first we get on so splendidly
G
And we called you but you
never seemed free
C
So we just drove around for a while
G
But then the poetry of silence
It has this way of catching
me and that heart
C
G
And it rises to tell us that all of this is grief
C
and everything we love is a shame
Verse 5
C
G
Em
So I open up my window and I throw that heart through,
C
G
C
through
G
Em
Now everybody knows my failures,
C
well I know theirs too, too
G
Verse 6
So is this what it takes
C
What it takes to be supposedly great?
G
'Cause if it is then I think maybe the less,
Em
the less
G
C
The less I knew the better
G
Please just be kind when I drag
C
myself out onto the night
G
Em
'Cause in the end I think that maybe the less,
G
the less
C
The less I knew the better
G
The less I knew the better
Verse 7
Em
B
G
C
G
F
Em
Ooh, oo h, ooh
G
F
G
Em
G
Ooh, ooh, oo
Em
h
G
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