Skeleton Key

E                            G#
Half asleep with the sun coming up 
out east
                   F#              
We're driving down Garfield Ave 
             B             
when you said a strange and 
F#        E
significant thing
                  G#               
I can remember the words - "this 
             F#
was a beautiful night
                        B          
It won't, it won't ever happen this
 F#
 way again"

[Pre-chorus]
E                         B
No, my dear, nothing much grows 
around here
             F#                    
We carry our roots with us, a 
     G#               F#
couple of weeds pulled up, misguided
E                           B    
Girl, you'll be the heroine of my
                       F#
 book, the plot is the course we 
took
                  G#         F#   
The setting can't be nowhere else 
       E
in the world

[Chorus]
        B
And the story opens up with you
                       G#    F#
Your broken dreams and cheap perfume
            E
You're on a city bus, the rain it 
falls
                         F#      
Your make up bleeds, the wind it 
G#
howls
      B
And I stumble on from Uptown bars
                        G#     F#
I guess that's all I've got so far
                 E
Yeah, but at the end, I don't know 
how
                    F#      G#
You save me and you save yourself

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[Verse 2]
E                                  
It ends so soon, the night and the 
G#
fading moon
              F#                   
I put my hand inside yours, the 
        B           F#
city looks strange and significant
  E                            
I know these streets, the place 
            G#
where I'll live and die
                 F#              
Resigned to that fact, but I, I'm 
           B            F#
hoping it happens this way again

[Pre-chorus]
E                         B
No, my dear, nothing much grows 
around here
             F#                    
We carry our roots with us, a 
     G#               F#
couple of weeds pulled up, misguided
E                           B    
Girl, you'll be the heroine of my
                       F#
 book, the plot is the course we 
took
                  G#         F#   
The setting can't be nowhere else 
       E
in the world

[Chorus]
        B
And the story opens up with you
                       G#    F#
Your broken dreams and cheap perfume
            E
You're on a city bus, the rain it 
falls
                         F#      
Your make up bleeds, the wind it 
G#
howls
      B
And I stumble on from Uptown bars
                        G#     F#
I guess that's all I've got so far
                 E
Yeah, but at the end, I don't know 
how
                F#       G#
You save me and then you save 
yourself

[Interlude]
B   E
G#  E

[Chorus]
        B
And the story opens up with you
                       G#    F#
Your broken dreams and cheap perfume
            E
You're on a city bus, the rain it 
falls
                         F#      
Your make up bleeds, the wind it 
G#
howls
      B
And I stumble on from Uptown bars
                        G#     F#
I guess that's all I've got so far
                 E
Yeah, but at the end, I don't know 
how
                F#       G# 
You save me and then you save 
           E
yourself

[Other]
B
Fall asleep to the radio
G#
Try to keep what I got from you
F#                         E
Hard to do in these dreary days