🎸 The Man With The Axe chords by Lorde

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Original key: E

🎸 Verse 1:
G           D
If I had to break it down
         F#m  G
I'd say it's the way you love to dance
 Em7-5     D           Bm
Movin' the furniture when my back is turned
   A7            N.C.
The flick of the lights and the world falls away

🎸 Chorus:
      G          D
And your office job and your silver hair
     F#m             G          Em7-5
But our shapes in the dark are the reason I've stayed for all these years

🎸 Verse 2:
  G        D          F#m
I thought I was a genius, but now I'm twenty-two
   G       Em7-5            D
And it's startin' to feel like all I know how to do is
 Bm        A
Put on a suit and take it away

🎸 Chorus:
     G              D
With my fistful of tunes that it's painful to play
 F#m           G
Fingernail worlds like favorite seashells
  Em7-5     D          Bm  A7
They fill up my nights and then they float away

🎸 Verse 3:
G                    D
I've got hundreds of gowns, I've got paintings in frames
    F#m                 G
And a throat that fills with panic every festival day
 Em7-5       D            Bm A7
Dutifully fallin' apart for the Princess of Norway

🎸 Chorus:
   G       D          F#m   G
But you, with your doll's lashes, your infinite t-shirts
 Em7-5            D           Bm
I should've known when your favorite record was the same as my father's
    A7
You'd take me down

🎸 Verse 4:
  G            D
I guess I'll always be this way
  F#m              G
Swallowed up by the words, and halfway to space
 Em7-5      D           Bm
But there, by the fire, you offered your hand
      A7
And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan

🎸 Chorus:
 E       A     E  A
You felled me clean as a pine
   E      A     C7 D7     E
The man with the axe and the lo- ok in his eyes

Break:
E / A
E / A

🎸 Outro:
E              A
We've been through so many hard times
        E         A
I'm writin' a love song for you, baby

E / A / E