When We Were Writers

D      Em      A      G

[Verse 1]
D                                
  Look a gift horse in the mouth   
Em
go get a job
A                                 
  Last best deal I ever got was a 
G
quarter for a beer on the quad
D                                 
  Nevilles singing on a makeshift 
      Em
stage   you sittin' on a 
towel in the shade
A                                  
  Came from a foreign town and you 
G
smoked a joint with Jackson Browne

[Pre-Chorus 1]
D          D/C#         G/B   D/A
What if my pain won’t deliver me
           E      G               
What if my stasis crushes me with 
A
boredom
     D         D/C#             
If I read into   everything you 
G/B          D/A
say to me
       Em            D/F#         
I will never get the meaning of 
   G                   A
your words like when you wrote them

[Chorus 1]
D            Em      D/F#        
When we were writers when we were 
 C
fighters
  G                         A
Before we found purpose and made 
deals with God
      D           Em           
Let’s pull an all nighter push 
D/F#        C
wood in the fire
   G                               
It might just look like smoke in my
 A
 eyes but I’m still burning in - 
[Interlude] side

Continúa después del anuncio
[Interlude]
D      Em      A      G

[Verse 2]
D                             Em
  Some sailed the calmer seas   
serial monogamy
A                                  
  Best trip I ever took was on the 
G
ship that I wrecked and how I got 
set free
D                                 
  Strange boy in the Vegas summer 
Em
Dancing by the pool to a different 
drummer
A                     G
  Maybe a heat mirage   or a message
 in camouflage

[Pre-Chorus 2]
D         D/C#             G/B
What if I thought that the best of 
me
D/A         E    G          A
Spending my days doing just fine
   D               D/C#    
To short change my true full 
  G/B          D/A
capacity
    Em           D/F#            
And recognize it just when I was 
G              A
running out of time

[Chorus 2]
D            Em      D/F#
When we were writers we were 
      C
igniters
G                     A
Blisters to callus to scars from the
 war
    D             Em          
The sentence gets tighter the 
D/F#         C
impact grows wider
     G                     A
When nothing is wasted nor chances 
denied

[Bridge]
            Em         D/F#
I’ve had my day in the sun that’s no
 lie
G               A
  But I’m still burning inside
F                       G
  The slings and arrows   the 
passage narrows
C                         Fm
  The story harrowing the word 
becomes flesh
D                        Gm
  Wrestle the beast that leaves you 
diminished
     Em               D/F#   
It’s alright you will never be 
  G           A
finished

[End-Chorus]
D             Em     D/F#        
When you’re a writer when you’re a 
  C
fighter
G                A
Easy to be cruel better to be kind
D                Em             
Plow through the stalks of your 
D/F#           C
heart’s tinder box
G                            A
Flint to the rock and you’ll find 
you’re still burning in - [Otro] 
side

[Otro]
D      Em      A      G
D      Em      A      G
D