The Lawrence arms
Beautiful things
Metropole
2014
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com

Key: G

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
G -  320033
D -  xx0232
Em - 022000
C -  x32010


Intro:
G--
G--Em-- x2


Verse 1:
G
  Typewriter tell me
     Em
what year it was
G
  Typing to the rhythm
             Em
of a century on the cusp
C
  We were out there smoking
       D        C
on the sidewalks We were
                    G
lovers drinking to another
            D
song on the jukebox


Chorus 1:
Em    C
Don't kill all the
G         D
beautiful things
      Em
I was searching for
C            G
truth in the dust
      D    Em
of my days I was
   C        G
so lost and I
       C    G Em G Em
was so young


Verse 2:
G
  Cinematic I was cynical
       Em
on the city bus
G
  literary wrote lyrics
       Em
like I thought I was
C
  we were sleeping racing
        D      C
for the future bicycle
                 G       D
tires spinning revolution


Chorus 2:
Em    C
Don't kill all the
G         D
beautiful things
      Em
I was searching for
C            G
truth in the dust
      D    Em
of my days I was
   C        G
so lost and I
       C    G Em D C
was so young


Bridge:
Em             C
  The city was sweating
       Em         C
in the summer heat
       Em
I wrote  melodies of
   C        Em
regret to a deaf
           C
and empty street
Em       C
I was so lonely it
 G         D
started to rain
    Em
the lightning and
C
thunder were 
G          D
singing my name
          Em
I thought those
            C
songs could save me
          Em
I thought those
            C
songs could save me


Chorus 3:
Em    C
Don't kill all the
G         D
beautiful things
      Em
I was searching for
C            G
truth in the dust
      D    Em
of my days I was
   C        G
so lost and I
       C
was so young
Em           D
  We were so lost
    G          C    G Em G Em
and we were so young
G     Em
Don't kill all the
D         C(hold)
beautiful things