Watching Me Fall chords by The Cure

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Dm

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
Dm     x4
Dm  G  x12


Verse 1:
Dm                           G                    Dm            G
Yeah I've been watching me fall for it seems like years   years
Dm                  G                Dm          G
Watching me grow small, I watch me disappear
Dm                         G                      Dm    G
Slipping out my ordinary world, out my ordinary eyes
       Dm                     G                      Dm           G
Yeah slipping out the ordinary me into someone else's life life life
                    Dm       G       Dm       G
Into someone else's life

Bridge:
Dm       G x2


Verse 2:
          Dm                    G                    Dm                 G
There's a thin white cold new moon and the snow is coming down
          Dm                    G                    Dm                 G
And the neon bright Tokyo lights flicker through the crowd
          Dm                    G                    Dm                 G
I've been drifting around for hours and I'm lost and I am tired
          Dm                    G                            Dm                 G
When a whisper in my ear    insatiable breathes   "why don't you follow me inside?"


Chorus 1:
  Am       Dm         Am     Dm       G   F     G  F
Yeah the room is small, the room is bright
  Am   Dm    Am     Dm       G   F      G  F
Her hair is black, the bed is white
                      Dm        G
The night is ... always young
Dm           G         Dm       G
Is always young, always young
Dm                   G
The night is ... always young


Bridge:
Dm       G x4


Verse 3:
          Dm                G                         Dm                G
Yeah I've been seeing them strip to the bone in the mirror on the wall
    Dm                  G                            Dm                 G
Seeing her swallow him whole like it's not me at all
       Dm                   G                          Dm               G
She holds out her hands and I follow her down to my knees
          Dm                  G                  Dm             G
And the sucking inside insatiable smiles "you will forget yourself in me"


Chorus 2:
  Am       Dm         Am     Dm       G   F     G  F
Yeah the room is small, the room is bright
  Am   Dm    Am     Dm       G   F      G  F
Her eyes is black, the bed is white
      Em        F       G       A
And the night is always young
      Em        F       G       A
And the night goes on and on
      Em        F       G       A
And the night is always young


Bridge 1:
A#
And the night is never over and over and over and over and over
Dm      G
And then it's gone
Dm      G
And then it's gone
Dm      G
Yeah then it's gone gone gone gone


Verse 4:
          Dm                    G                       Dm              G
Yeah it's a cruel mean cold new day and outside the snow is still coming down
          Dm                 G              Dm                  G
And in the blood red Tokyo bed I watch me coming down
          Dm              G                     Dm              G
She pulled him down for hours deeper than I've ever been
          Dm                    G                                   Dm                  G
And as I fall in the mirror on the wall          I'm watching me scream


Bridge:
Dm       G x2


Bridge 2:
                  Dm    G
I'm watching me scream
Dm      G
I'm watching me scream
Dm      G
I'm watching me scream
Dm      G
I'm watching me scream


Verse 5:
          Dm              G                      Dm             G
Yeah I've been watching me go for it must be years
          Dm           G                            Dm                  G
Watching me get slow, I watch me disappear
          Dm                              Dm            G
And one day, yeah I know, I won't come back at all
          Dm                    G                            Dm                 G
And always over and over in his ordinary eyes  I'm watching me fall


Outro:
              Dm        G      Dm       G
I'm watching me fall
Dm      G      Dm       G

              Dm        G      Dm       G
I'm watching me fall
Dm      G      Dm       G

              Dm
I'm watching me fall.......