G                D                 Em                    Bm     C          G          C          D
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl


G                     D
Back back way back I used to front like Angkor Wat
Em                      Bm
Mechanicsburg Anchorage and Dar es Salaam
C                       G
While home in New York was champagne and disco
C               D
Tapes from L.A. slash San Francisco
G                    D
But actually Oakland and not Alameda
Em                        Bm
Your girl was in Berkeley with her Communist reader
C                      G
Mine was entombed within boombox and walkman
C                   D
I was a hoarder but girl that was back then


G                   D                    Em
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
         Bm
What you on about?
C               G      C               D
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
G                 D                 Em
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
       Bm
Such a modest mouse,
C             G      C             D
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone


G                D                 Em                    Bm     C          G          C          D
Every time I see you in the world, you always step to my girl


G                      D
Ancestors told me that their girl was better
Em                               Bm
She's richer than Croesus, she's tougher than leather
C                      G
I just ignored all the tales of a past life
C                  D
Stale conversation deserves but a bread knife
G                             D
And punks who would laugh when they saw us together
Em                            Bm
Well, they didn't know how to dress for the weather
C                          G
I can still see them there huddled on Astor
C                        D
Snow falling slow to the sound of the master


G                   D                    Em
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
         Bm
What you on about?
C               G      C               D
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
G                 D                 Em
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
       Bm
Such a modest mouse,
C             G      C             D
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone


G                          D
Wisdom's a gift, but you'd trade it for youth
Em                    Bm
Age is an honor, it's still not the truth
C                     G
We saw the stars when they hid from the world
C                          D
You cursed the sun when it stepped to your girl
G                      D
Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her
Em                            Bm
The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her
C                       G
We know the true death, the true way of all flesh
C                     D
Everyone's dying, but girl you're not old yet


G                   D                    Em
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
         Bm
What you on about?
C               G      C               D
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
G                 D                 Em
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
       Bm
Such a modest mouse,
C             G      C             D
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone


G                   D                    Em
The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
         Bm
What you on about?
C               G      C               D
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
G                 D                 Em
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
       Bm
Such a modest mouse,
C             G      C             D
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone