C                G                    F                 G
Every time I see you in the world you always step to my girl

C
Back back way back
          G
I used to front like Angkor Wat
Am                              G
Mechanicsburg, Anchorage, and Dar es Salam
      Dm
While home in New York
    Am
was champagne and disco 
Dm              G
tapes from L.A. slash San Francisco
C                            G
but actually Oakland and not Alameda
     F                         G
Your girl was in Berkeley with her communist reader
Dm                       Am
Mine was entombed within boombox and walkman
Dm                  G
I was a hoarder but girl that was back then

C    
The gloves are off
    G           Am
The wisdom teeth are out

What you on about?
  F             C
I feel it in my bones
  F              Am-G
I feel it in my bones
     C
I'm stronger now
    G                Am
I?m ready for the house

Such a Modest Mouse
   F           C 
I can?t do it alone
   F           Am-G
I can?t do it alone.

C                 G                  F                    G     
Every time I see you in the world you always step to my girl

C                                G
Ancestors told me that their girl was better
      Am
She?s richer than Croesus
      G  
she?s tougher than leather
Dm                      Am
I just ignored all the tales of a past life
Dm                     G     
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
C                               G
Punks who would laugh when they saw us together
     F                    G
well they didn?t know how to dress for the weather
Dm                         Am
I can still see them there huddled on Astor 
     Dm                  G
snow falling slow to the sound of the master

C    
The gloves are off
    G           Am
The wisdom teeth are out

What you on about?
  F             C
I feel it in my bones
  F              Am-G
I feel it in my bones
    C
I?m stronger now
   G              Am
I?m ready for the house

Such a Modest Mouse
   F          C 
I can?t do it alone
   F           Am-G
I can?t do it alone.


C                            G 
wisdom?s a gift but you?d trade it for youth
Am                      G
age is an honor it?s still not the truth
Dm                            Am
we saw the stars when they hid from the world
Dm                         G
you cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
C                        G
maybe she?s gone and I can?t resurrect her
     F                           G
the truth is she doesn?t need me to protect her
Dm                           Am
we know the true death the true way of our flesh
Dm                     G               
everyone?s dying but girl you?re not old yet

C    
The gloves are off
    G          Am
The wisdom teeth are out

What you on about?
  F             C
I feel it in my bones
  F              Am-G
I feel it in my bones
    C
I?m stronger now
    G               Am
I?m ready for the house

Such a Modest Mouse
   F           C 
I can?t do it alone
   F           Am-G
I can?t do it alone.

C                G                    F                    G                       
Every time I see you in the world you always step to my girl