Standard (EADGBE)

How about we move to Cleveland and hide out there at some movie store

and start a little family band that plays

How about I make the scary choices just so long as you agree

to throw out any food that’s sat for days

*follow progression from the first verse*

What would happen if I left you for the boys in Chi-town bars

who kissed the best & gave you fare to take cabs home

What would happen if we went to sea and spent our mornings getting brown

and drank wine till we threw up overboard

What would happen if there was no war and all we watched were movie stars

who starved themselves and told us we meant shit

How about I love you harder than I know to love myself

until I lose all my capacity for it

Chorus

Baby just press record on your heart’s tapedeck and make a song

for all the things we might have been

Chords are the same for each chorus

How about we start and end our days with images & art

instead of all the things that yesterday we missed

How about we go to school until we’ve lost all inspiration

wonder why we let our parents promise this

How about we go our separate ways and write long lists

of all the things we never really wanted to admit

How about we burn the lists of all the people that we made out with at parties

and with whom we learned to kiss

Baby just press record on your heart’s tapedeck and make a song

for all the things we might have been

Chords are the same for each chorus

*Follow chord progression from first verse*

What would happen if you gave your clothes away

and made new dresses out of curtains, napkins, towels, and bedsheets

What would happen if we lived in separate cities long enough

until we grew apart and forgot how to sleep