Vermont chords by Spanish Love Songs

Tuning: Half-Step Down (D# G# C# F# A# D#)

Key: Ab

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

A D A F#m E

Verse:

       A
You told me happiness is just a moment
     D
From the steps of your Victorian apartment
      A
We sat outside
                  F#m    E
The air was broken and summer was barging in
          A
The homeless lady pushed her shopping carts
              D
And your neighbors played mariachi music until 4 am
   A                       F#m    E
You said, "When this one passes I should probably walk away."
          Bm              D
"Because I'm gonna leave you the first chance I get
    A
I'm a black hole, I'm empty and dead
     Bm           D
You can carve your name in stone
          A
But it's just not permanent."

Pre-Chorus:

    F#m           E
But you told me you think you loved me
      A               D
When you collapsed on the floor of your room
     F#m
After you told me to leave
     E
In that moment
         A
I realized I was sure I loved you too

Interlude:

A D A F#m E

Verse:

         A
So now I'm always putting out fires with my bare hands
      D
Until two black stumps are all that remain
     A
I don't think my feeble heart's enough
  F#m          E
To blanket these growing flames
     A
You can drop me at the hospital
   D
I'll OD on morphine and dream about you
   A               F#m       E
As my heart seizes one more time before you go, and go
      Bm        D          A
Then I'll probably wake up alone and be alone forever
     Bm           D
With an itch on my back that I cannot scratch
     A
In the shape of your heart forever

Chorus:

         F#m  E
Cause everybody leaves
      A        D
Everybody leaves eventually
      F#m
Everybody breaks
      E
Bends too late
      A
Nobody's happy
         F#m      E
You'll never be happy this time
         A        D
When it's your heart on the line
      F#m
So take a step back
        E          A
who would ever want to fall in love?

Bridge:

  D             E        A
Now it all plays out and the way you call me "babe"
A
Dies with every other nickname
D        E
I have so many nicknames I can't keep track anymore
          D            E
I'll bury them in bourbon and half-smoked cigarettes
    A  A/G#  F#m E
As we come to an end
     D           E         A
Or to an understanding I don't want to understand

Chorus:

         F#m  E
Cause everybody leaves
      A        D
Everybody leaves eventually
      F#m
Everybody breaks
      E
Bends too late
      A
Nobody's happy
         F#m      E
You'll never be happy this time
        A        D
When it's my heart on the line
       F#m           E         A
"If I can't love you, why would you ever love me back?
       F#m           E         A
"If I can't love you, why would you ever love me back?
           F#m
I don't know how to love you anymore
  E           A
So please don't love me back."