🎸 Rut chords by The Killers

Intro:
C        G6
(Don't give up on me
    C       F
'Cause I'm just in a rut
   C        Cadd9 C/E  F   G
I'm climbing but the walls keep stacking up)

Verse 1:
C   G6             C         F
    Can't keep my mind off of every little wrong
C         Cadd9 C/E  F
I see the mouths are open, but I can't hear the song
C   G6                 C                 F
     I've done my best to fill 'em, but the cracks are starting to spread
C         Cadd9 C/E  F
Hey I won't blame you baby, go on turn your head

Chorus:
 C        G6
But don't give up on me
    C       F
'Cause I'm just in a rut
  C        Cadd9 C/E  F    G
I'm climbing but the walls keep stacking up

Verse 2:
C   G6             C         F
     I can't keep pretending this next stop isn't mine
C         Cadd9 C/E  F
The truth is on the table, someone's gotta sign
C   G6                 C                 F
      I've done my best defending, but the punches are starting to land
C         Cadd9 C/E  F       Gsus4
I'm sliding into something you won't understand

Chorus:
 C        G6
Don't give up on me
    C       F
'Cause I'm just in a rut
   C        Cadd9 C/E  F   G
I'm climbing but the walls keep stacking up

   C        G6
But don't give up on me
    C       F
'Cause I'm just in a rut
   C        Cadd9 C/E  F   G
I'm climbing but the walls keep stacking up

Bridge:
  F           G
So I'm handing you a memory
 Am7        C
I hope you understand
  F        G    Am7      C
That steadily reminds you of who I really am

  F       G       Am7       C
This city's always breathing, I wish that it would die
  F                G
The kickbacks and the bachelors, the fever for the velvet rope
  Am7
The money from my mother's men
  G
I'm not like her, you're not like them

   C         G            Am7    Fadd9
I'll climb and I'll climb, I'll climb and I'll climb, I'll climb and I'll climb
   C         G            Am7    Fadd9
I'll climb and I'll climb, I'll climb and I'll climb, I'll climb and I'll climb
   C         F            G      Am7        G
I'll climb and I'll climb, I'll climb and I'll climb, I'll climb and I'll climb

Outro:
    C G     Am  F
Don't you give up on me (don't you give up, don't you give up)
    C G     Am  F
Don't you give up on me (don't you give up, don't you give up)
    C G     Am  F
Don't you give up on me (don't you give up, don't you give up)
    C G     Am  F
Don't you give up on me (don't you give up, don't you give up)