The Man With The Axe chords by 
Lorde 
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Key: E major•
Verse 1
A
E
If I had to break it down
G#m
A
I'd say it's the way you love to dance
Am
E
Mov ing the furniture when
Em
C#m
my back is turned
B
A flick of the lights and
the world falls away
A
E
And your office job, and your silver hair
G#m
A
But our shapes in the dark are the reason I've stayed
Am
for all these years
Interlude 1
E
A
C#m
B
Verse 2
A
E
I thought I was a geni us
G#m
But now I'm twenty two
A
Am
And it's starting to feel like
E
all I know how to do is
C#m
A
B
Put on a suit and take it away
A
With my fistful of tunes that
E
it's painful to play
G#m
A
Finger nail worlds, like favorite seashells
Am
E
They fill up my night s and
C#m
A
B
then they float away
Verse 3
A
I've got hundreds of gowns,
E
I've got paintings in frames
G#m
And a throat that fills with
A
panic every festival day
Am
E
Dutifully falling apart for the
C#m
princess of Norway
B
Verse 4
A
E
But you with your doll's lashes,
G#m
your infinite T-shirts
A
Am
I I should've known when
E
your favorite record
C#m
Was the same as my father's,
B
you'd take me down
Verse 5
A
E
I guess I'll always be this way
G#m
Swallowed up by the words and
A
Am
halfway to space
But there by the fire,
E
C#m
you offered your hand
B
And as I took it, I loved you,
F#
the boy with the plan
Verse 6
B
F#
B
You felled me clean as a pine
F#
B
The man with the axe
D
A
E
And the light in his
Interlude 2
eyes
F#
B
F#
B
Verse 7
F#
B
We've been through so many hard times
F#
I'm writing a love song
B
For you, baby
Outro 1
F#
B
F#
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ChordsA E G#m Am Em...
A
E
G#m
Am
Em
C#m
B
F#
D
Capo: 2
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