The Killers
Runaways
Battle Born
2012
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com

Key: C#, same key to their hit song MR. BRIGHTSIDE

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
C# -   x46664
Ab -   466544
Bbm -  x13321
F# -   244322
Ebm -  x68876
Ab/C - x365xx
C#/F - 143xxx
Fm -   133111


Intro: C# Ab F#  F# C# Ab   x2


Verse 1:
C#          Ab             F#
Blonde hair blowing in the summer wind
    F#        C#           Ab
The blue eyed girl playing in the sand
    C#          Ab          F#
I'd been on her trail for a little while
    F#           C#
But that was the night that 
    Ab
she broke down and held my-


Refrain 1:
 F#           Bbm
-hand Teenage rush she said
Ebm                  Ab
   Ain't we all just runaways?
       F#                  Bbm
We got time but that ain't much
         Ab           F#
We can't wait until tomorrow
          Ab
You gotta know that 
        Bbm
this is real baby
F#            C#/F
Why you wanna fight it?
         Bbm
It's the one thing 
Ab/C      F#        Ab-Bbm-F#(hold)
you can't choose Oh!


Verse 2:
Ab       Bbm
We got engaged 
     F#
on a Friday night
  F#           C#
I swore on the head 
       Ab
of our unborn child   
     C#           Ab
That I could take care 
       F#
of the three of us
    F#        C#
But I got the tendency to 
 Ab
slip when the nights get-


Refrain 2:
 F#              Bbm
-wild It's in my blood
Ebm
   She said she 
           Ab
might just runaway       
          F#
Somewhere else 
           Bbm
some place good
         Ab
We can't wait 
        F#
until tomorrow
          Ab
You gotta know 
             Bbm
that this is real baby
F#            C#/F
Why you wanna fight it?
         Bbm
It's the one thing 
Ab/C      F#
you can't choose
             Ab
Let's take a chance
baby we can't lose


Chorus 1:
                  C#       Ab F#
Ain't we all just runaways?
                 F#
I knew it when I met you
C#            Ab
I'm not gonna let you
   C#  Ab F#
Runaway     I knew 
          F#
it when I held 
      C#             Ab
you I wasn't letting go


Bridge:
           Fm
We used to look at the 
             Bbm
stars and confess our dreams
          F#
Hold each other 
                       Fm Ebm
until the morning light
   C#
We used to laugh
      Bbm
no we only fight
Ab                    F#(hold)
Baby are you lonesome now?


Verse 3:
         C#           Ab
And That night I come home 
           F#
after they go to sleep
        F#       C#
Like a stumbling ghost 
  Ab
I haunt these halls
          C#
There's a picture of 
Ab        F#
us on our wedding day
       F#       C#
I recognize the girl but 
        Ab              F#--
I can't settle in these walls


Refrain 3:
         Ab          F#
We can't wait till tomorrow
                Ab
No we're caught up 
        Bbm
in the appeal baby
F#            C#/F  
Why you wanna hide it?
         Ab
It's the last 
            F#
thing on my mind
  Ab
I turn the engine over
and my body just comes Alive!


Chorus 2:
                  C#       Ab F#
Ain't we all just runaways?
                 F#
I knew it when I met you
C#            Ab
I'm not gonna let you
   C#  Ab F#
Runaway     I knew 
          F#
it when I held 
      C#             Ab
you I wasn't letting go oh oh
C#         Ab       F#     
  ain't we all just runaway
F#  C# Ab
yeah
runaway
C#         Ab       F#     
  ain't we all just runaway
F#  C# Ab
yeah


Outro: Ab-Bbm-F#(hold)