• Song:

    She Stayed As Steam

  • Artist:

    Kevin Devine

  • Album:

    She Stayed As Steam

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F5             C5
all that music in your mouth
       G5               A5
rivers rushing at your teeth
         Bb5                   F5
cresting waves through wading valleys
        Bb5            F5
flooded language tributaries
            Bb5    F5    C5
connect and cover over me
        F5                C5
tensing jaw & cork screw eyelids
          G5                A5
as if you couldn't bare to see
         Bb5            F5
all that water pouring from you
           Bb5                F5
collecting clouds inside the ballroom
     Bb5     F5         C5       Bb5
over people who don't know you
                
but darling i do

On 'do', begin this riff:
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 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 
 | ----2-0-2---2---2------0-2---2---2-----0-2---2---2--------3-3333333-- | 
 | ----3----------------3-------3---3---3---------------3--3-3-3333333-- | 
 | --11-1-1-111-111-1/55-5-5-555-533-011-1-1-111-111-155-5555--1111111-- | 
 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

(Return to palm-muted power chords)
               F5                     C5
you trance yourself back towards the city
          G5              A5
blood not moving to your feet
                Bb5            F5
your foot falls tentative and muffled
    Bb5             F5
automatic listless shuffle
              Bb5      F5          C5     
your sidewalk scatter brain, cry uncle
              F5                 C5   
you paint yourself back in your corner
             G5            A5
and look for her on your t.v.
            Bb5             F5   
it's friday night and i am hungry
      Bb5               F5
for a hand, a mouth, a body
         Bb5       F5       C5   Bb5
a love i wouldn't have to carry


(For the next section, either play the riff or the chords below)

 ..Mouth         ..now           ..canal         ..town
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 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 
 | ----2-0-2---2---2------0-2---2---2-----0-2---2---2--------3-3333333-- | 
 | ----3----------------3-------3---3---3---------------3--3-3-3333333-- | 
 | --11-1-1-111-111-1/55-5-5-555-533-011-1-1-111-111-155-5555--1111111-- | 
 | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 

               F5
a stitch in my mouth
                D5
and i'm untying now
           F5
a concrete canal
                 D5   G5 A5
in a bomb border town


(return to palm muted power chords again)

   Bb5          A5
an echo in the rafters
          D5              G5
reminding you there was a sound
    (D) | -7-----5---3- |  Dm
but you killed her in  waves
             C5                    F5   C5
she stayed a steam to hiss at you now


(Stop palm muting here)
  G5 G5 A5      Bb5       F5    A5 Bb5      F5    A5 Bb5  F5   C5 C5
 | -33335555555555556666-----111110001111----111110001111111100000000- | 
 | -33333333555555556666-----111111113333----111111113333111111111111- | 
 | -44444444555555557777-----222222223333----222222223333222200003333- | 
 | -555533337777777788888----333332223333----333332223333333322222222- | 
 | -5555555577777777888883---33333000111110--333330001111333333333333- | 
 | -333333335555555566666--3-11111---------3111111-------11113333----- | 

                 Bb5   F5
he killed her in waves
               A5     D5
but that's not today


(back to palm muting again)

                            D5
so you breathe through your mouth
                     Bb5
try to calm yourself down
                  F5
and keep what you found
                 A5
and shout it out loud


(And stop palm muting again)

                  D5
she can hover and hurt
               Bb5
or dissolve to dirt
                   F5   A5
some prayer in you mouth
                     G5
and she might stay a steam
              C5
so get to the beams
                   F5    A5
let you figure her out

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