Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Difficulty: Intermediate Anyway – Kerrigan-Lowedermilk Intro: Dbsus2 I didn’t expect to see you here – I mean outside, smoking. Gb2 I’m more of a nicorette girl these days. Ab I’m joking. Dbsus I mean – I did quit. Gb But who feels like joking now? Ab/Gb Gb2 Ab I’ll see you your scowl Ab And raise you a furrowed brow.
Anyway. Dbsus2 Anyway. Ab Dbsus Do you remember how we used to read Ab Rilke, Joyce? Dbsus And we barely understood it, Ab Dbsus2 But it gave us a voice Or a language… Ab I don’t read poetry anymore. Dbsus Db2 But if I did, Absus2 Bbm9 I’d be reading it tonight for sure. Absus2 Ab Absus2 Oh. Oh. Dbsus2 Ab I keep thinking about how the timing seems false. Dbsus2 Ab How some days seem faster than my fucking pulse. Dbsus2 And others go so slow. Gb2 Like this morning Absus2 Feels like a month ago. Gb2/Bb Absus2 Oh. Oh. Gb2/Bb Absus2 Oh. Oh. Absus2 I feel like I’m underwater. I feel like I’m underwater. Ab I feel like I’m underwater. Anyway. Dbsus2 Anyway. Ab There’s this building you pass Ab On the subway to Queens. Ab It’s on the L or the R or the one that’s green. Ab It’s covered in tags, Ab Bright hieroglyphics. Ab These fifteen-year-olds – They’re so fucking prolific. Dbsus2 I’m commuting, Dbsus2 I’m eating my goddamn apple And they’re secretly painting their Sistine Chapel. Gb2/Bb Ab/Bb Gb2/Bb But whatever, Absus2 Ab Absus2 Gb2 Ab/Gb GbM9 It’s like they know their odds. Db/F If you're gonna die young, Ebm7 Absus2 Gbsus2 Ab Gbsus2 You'd better live like gods. Ab Gbsus2 Gods. Ab Gbsus2 Gods. And me? Bbm11 I’m not doing anything. Ab I’m not helping or cleaning. Bbm11 I’m not even crying. I’m not doing anything. Absus4 She’d be so goddamn helpful. Ab/Gb Well, fuck her for dying ’cause I, I’m not writing her elegy. Ab2 Not me. Ab/Gb I’m not writing that down. Ab7sus4 Bbm11 They would scrawl her name on a city wall Ab But I’m a fucking clown. Gb2 I’m making jokes So I don’t drown. Gb2 I feel like I’m underwater. Ab I feel like I’m underwater. Gb2 I feel like I’m underwater. Ab I feel like I’m underwater. Gb2 Like the whole world is underwater. Ab Like I’m screaming out underwater. Gb2 Ab I feel like I’m underwater these days. Gb2 Dbsus2 Anyways. Anyway. Dbsus2 I didn’t expect to see you here. I mean – thanks for coming. Gb2 Ab I thought you’d oppose the use of religious rites as numbing. Dbsus2 I mean – it is dumb. Gb Ab/Gb But what if she can hear them pray? Gb2 Ab I mean what the fuck do we know? Ab Who are we to say? Ab If there was anyway. Dbsus2 Anyway.