Chords for John Moreland - "Your Spell" - The Church Studio - Tulsa, OK - 6/22/13
Tempo:
58.15 bpm
Chords used:
D
A
G
Em
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[A] [D] Well, you know I used to love you, but now I don't think I can.
And it ain't you, it's just that feeling's more than [A] I can stand.
I guess nine or ten years of failure will [D] do that to a man.
I [A] hope you understand.
We [D] were eighteen years of anger, bitter as the cold.
Maybe we knew emptiness like a [A] panhandle roll.
[D] And we'd pretend that we [B] were dying, trying [D] to survive.
And make it [A] through those high school nights [D] alive.
[Em] Remember the prom kings and queens, [A] grace on the floor.
And how the lights [D] inside the high school made us look [A] like movie stars.
Whether you were [D] the queen of my condition, I was the king of the ignored.
Talked just like East Texas, looked like an angel from the Lord.
[A] I thought [G] we'd bust out a broken arrow, [D] holding hands on our way to hell.
You [A] always did have me under [D] your spell.
[G] [D]
[A] [D]
[G] [A] [D]
And [Em] all those pretty girls who looked like [E] movie stars.
[A] They looked pretty [D] ordinary at twenty-eight years old.
[G] Checking out at [D] Walmart with babies [A] in their arms.
And you were the [D] queen of my condition, I was the king of the ignored.
You talked just like East [D] Texas, looked like an [A] angel from the Lord.
I thought [G] we'd bust out a broken arrow, [D] holding hands on our way to hell.
You [A] always did have me under your spell.
And it ain't you, it's just that feeling's more than [A] I can stand.
I guess nine or ten years of failure will [D] do that to a man.
I [A] hope you understand.
We [D] were eighteen years of anger, bitter as the cold.
Maybe we knew emptiness like a [A] panhandle roll.
[D] And we'd pretend that we [B] were dying, trying [D] to survive.
And make it [A] through those high school nights [D] alive.
[Em] Remember the prom kings and queens, [A] grace on the floor.
And how the lights [D] inside the high school made us look [A] like movie stars.
Whether you were [D] the queen of my condition, I was the king of the ignored.
Talked just like East Texas, looked like an angel from the Lord.
[A] I thought [G] we'd bust out a broken arrow, [D] holding hands on our way to hell.
You [A] always did have me under [D] your spell.
[G] [D]
[A] [D]
[G] [A] [D]
And [Em] all those pretty girls who looked like [E] movie stars.
[A] They looked pretty [D] ordinary at twenty-eight years old.
[G] Checking out at [D] Walmart with babies [A] in their arms.
And you were the [D] queen of my condition, I was the king of the ignored.
You talked just like East [D] Texas, looked like an [A] angel from the Lord.
I thought [G] we'd bust out a broken arrow, [D] holding hands on our way to hell.
You [A] always did have me under your spell.
Key:
D
A
G
Em
B
D
A
G
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ Well, you know I used to love you, but now I don't think I can.
_ And it ain't you, it's just that feeling's more than [A] I can stand.
I guess nine or ten years of failure will [D] do that to a man.
I [A] hope you understand.
We [D] were eighteen years of anger, bitter as the cold. _ _
Maybe we knew emptiness like a [A] panhandle roll.
_ [D] And we'd pretend that we [B] were dying, trying [D] to survive.
And make it [A] through those high school nights [D] alive.
_ [Em] Remember the prom kings and queens, [A] grace on the floor.
And how the lights [D] inside the high school made us look [A] like movie stars.
Whether you were [D] the queen of my condition, I was the king of the ignored.
Talked just like East Texas, looked like an angel from the Lord.
[A] I thought [G] we'd bust out a broken arrow, [D] holding hands on our way to hell.
You [A] always did have me under [D] your spell. _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
And [Em] all those pretty girls who looked like [E] movie stars.
[A] They looked pretty [D] ordinary at twenty-eight years old.
[G] Checking out at [D] Walmart with babies [A] in their arms.
And you were the [D] queen of my condition, I was the king of the ignored.
You talked just like East [D] Texas, looked like an [A] angel from the Lord.
I thought [G] we'd bust out a broken arrow, [D] holding hands on our way to hell.
You [A] always did have me under your spell. _
_ And it ain't you, it's just that feeling's more than [A] I can stand.
I guess nine or ten years of failure will [D] do that to a man.
I [A] hope you understand.
We [D] were eighteen years of anger, bitter as the cold. _ _
Maybe we knew emptiness like a [A] panhandle roll.
_ [D] And we'd pretend that we [B] were dying, trying [D] to survive.
And make it [A] through those high school nights [D] alive.
_ [Em] Remember the prom kings and queens, [A] grace on the floor.
And how the lights [D] inside the high school made us look [A] like movie stars.
Whether you were [D] the queen of my condition, I was the king of the ignored.
Talked just like East Texas, looked like an angel from the Lord.
[A] I thought [G] we'd bust out a broken arrow, [D] holding hands on our way to hell.
You [A] always did have me under [D] your spell. _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
And [Em] all those pretty girls who looked like [E] movie stars.
[A] They looked pretty [D] ordinary at twenty-eight years old.
[G] Checking out at [D] Walmart with babies [A] in their arms.
And you were the [D] queen of my condition, I was the king of the ignored.
You talked just like East [D] Texas, looked like an [A] angel from the Lord.
I thought [G] we'd bust out a broken arrow, [D] holding hands on our way to hell.
You [A] always did have me under your spell. _