Chords for 'Car Song' by RM Hubbert (with Aidan Moffat & Alex Kapranos)

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[F#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [G#] _
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_ [B] _ [F#] _ _ _ [D#] I thought I could forever be your passenger, [E] _ As we gently [F#] raced beneath the trees of [G#m] B-roads
and C-roads, [B] Watching for fauna and [F#] singing along to that
classic love CD we [D#] found in the hired car.
_ [E] _ _ [C#] _
A weekend [G#] away from pills and paranoia was the plan,
[B] _ So we headed for [F#] familiar territory [D#] _
in the comforts of memory.
[E] _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [E]
I'm [B] happy when we [G#] meet, [F#] _ _
_ _ [B] I'm happiest in [G#]
here,
_ [F#] _ _ _ Where [B]
nothing's left to [G#] prove, _ [F#] _ _ _
[B] And nothing's left to fear. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _
I used [F#m] to swim over [B] there, _ _ [C#] _
_ [G#] but that pop's gone downhill.
_ [E]
I made [G#] my very first and very last attempt at smoking on that [F#m] swing bridge with Gillian
[C#] Smith. _
_ _ [G#] We all loved Gillian. _ _
_ [E] _ _ [F#] Expelled from school, [G#]
we crashed the graduates' ball in the [E] function room of that [C#] hotel,
_ _ [G#] And I came second last in the treasure hunt. _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm [B] happy when we [G#] meet, _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [B] I'm happiest in [G#]
here,
_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] Where nothing's left to [G#] prove, _ [F#] _ _ _
[B] And nothing's left to fear. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [F#] So let's do it.
_ Let's sell our home and all our things,
[D#m] And buy a [G#] camper van, And live on service station junk food and
roadside pub lunches.
[E] _ We can burn [F#] our smartphones,
And donate the computer to the school down the road,
[D#] [C#] Leave bin bags full of clothes we never wear outside the charity [F#] shop,
And just go home. _
_ _ _ [D#m] _ _ We walk [G#] to the shore,
_ And I think I could keep going, _ [E] But someone deep inside you [F#] quietly screams, _
_ _ It's time to stand still.
[D#m] _ _
_ _ [C#] And he's right. _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ So let's go home.
[G#] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ And what we can't build in [G#m] bricks,
I can [D#m]
build in [E] my heart.
Now we [F#] know how it ticks,
And we know where [G#] to start.
If the _ foundation's raw,
Should the wrecking ball swing?
[E] If I misplace [F#] my plot,
And so lose everything? _
[G#] Just remember [D#m] us here,
[E] And in hand by the [F#] shore, And forget each draped ear,
And the burdens _ reborn.
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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