Vermont

A D A F#m E

[Verse]

             A
You told me happiness is just a moment
          D
From the porch of your Victorian apartment
           A
We sat outside
                                   F#m       E
The air was broken and summer was barging in
                   A
The homeless lady pushed her shopping carts
                           D
And your neighbors played mariachi music until 4 am
     A                                             F#m        E
You said, "When this one passes I should probably walk away."
                    Bm                           D
"Because I'm gonna leave you the first chance I get
        A
I'm a black hole, I'm empty and dead
         Bm                      D
You can carve your name in stone
                   A
But it's just not permanent."

[Pre-Chorus]

        F#m                     E
But you told me you think you loved me
           A                             D
When you collapsed on the floor of your room
          F#m
After you told me to leave
         E
In that moment
                  A
I realized I was sure I loved you too

[Interlude]

A D A F#m E

[Verse]

                  A
So now I'm always putting out fires with my bare hands
           D
Until two black stumps are all that remain
         A
I don't think my feeble heart's enough
    F#m                   E
To blanket these growing flames
         A
You can drop me at the hospital
      D
I'll OD on morphine and dream about you
     A                              F#m             E
As my heart seizes one more time before you go, and go
           Bm                D                    A
Then I'll probably wake up alone and be alone forever
         Bm                     D
With an itch on my back that I cannot scratch
         A
In the shape of your heart forever

[Chorus]

                 F#m    E
Cause everybody leaves
            A               D
Everybody leaves eventually
           F#m
Everybody breaks
           E
Bends too late
           A
Nobody's happy
                 F#m           E
You'll never be happy this time
                 A               D
When it's your heart on the line
           F#m
So take a step back
                E                    A
who would ever want to fall in love?

[Bridge]

    D                         E                A
Now it all plays out and the way you call me "babe"
A
Dies with every other nickname
D               E
I have so many nicknames I can't keep track anymore
                   D                       E
I'll bury them in bourbon and half-smoked cigarettes
       A   A/G#   F#m  E
As we come to an end
          D                     E                 A
Or to an understanding I don't want to understand

[Chorus]

                 F#m    E
Cause everybody leaves
            A               D
Everybody leaves eventually
           F#m
Everybody breaks
           E
Bends too late
           A
Nobody's happy
                 F#m           E
You'll never be happy this time
               A               D
When it's my heart on the line
             F#m                     E                 A
"If I can't love you, why would you ever love me back?
             F#m                     E                 A
"If I can't love you, why would you ever love me back?
                     F#m
I don't know how to love you anymore
    E                     A
So please don't love me back."