Fletcher's Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C]

[Verse 1]
There weren't any curtains in the front [C]room and I couldn't sleep once the sun showed up with it's heavy August heat
so i sat up on the [Am]couch and surveyed the wreckage. Still wearing my wristband, which always makes it [Asus2]worse.[Am]

[Verse 2]
The [C]bars had been whatever. We shouldn't have even bothered. But after we went back to Fletchers with the best part of a handle and a plan to lay out the remainder on [Am]the table,
[Asus4]listen to some records and[Am] suck up whatever Saturday was left.[Asus4][Am]

[Verse 3]
Then [C]Fletcher got the text from this chick Steph he'd met last weekend. Said she was out with girlfriends and they had gone out
dancing but now the clubs [Asus2]were clos[Am]ing. They were all dressed [Asus2]up. They [Am]didn't really want to go home quite yet[Asus4].[Am]

[Verse 4]
So [C]then there were the three of them drinking vodka in the kitchen. Tiny shiny dresses. Steph and two others. One of them was
gorgeous but seemed a [Am]little stand off. [Asus4]So I chatted up[Am] the short one until she brought up her boy[Asus2]friend.[Am]

[Verse 5]
A little [C]later some kids we used to skate with came traipsing up the stairs with a case of Coors Banquet. Said they saw the lights on
and thought that they should [Am]check in. They [Asus4]entered with t[Am]heir arms r[A]aised like v[Am]ictors. The whole thing had m[Em]omentum.

[Verse 6]
I was [C]standing on the staircase looking over the proceedings. Thinking that these dudes were mostly decent and I'd known them all forever and friends
[Am]should stick together [Asus2]and I'm sick of al[Asus4]l the sad[Asus2]ness and I gotta stop thinki[Am]ng about Seattle. It's probably good enough right here.

[Interlude 1]
[C][Asus4][Em]
[Am]But then

[Verse 7]
[C]back there in the morning with the bottles and the fruit flies and the ashtrays and the headache and the heavy sun and sticky floors,
I wasn't really sure if I [Am]thought that it was [Asus2]good anym[A]ore. Found my shoes in the foyer i[Am]n a jumble of sneakers and one silver high heel.
[Asus4]Steph

[Verse 8]
[C]came out of Fletcher's bedroom and went into the bathroom. She was trying to be quiet but I think I heard her vomit. She
ran the water [Am]a long [Asus4]time and she came out chewing gum. Still in the same[Am] dress she'd worn out to t[Asus2]he clubs.[Am]
[Asus4]Once

[Verse 9]
[C]I put my shoes on I went out to the sidewalk and squinted in the bright light. She came out and stood there on the front
steps with the high heel [Asus4]in her purse. The sunlight made sparkles on her sequins. I wished I had my shades.

[Verse 10]
[C]She cursed her friends that left her. Said she couldn't wait for Fletcher. She asked if I had cigs
and I did. She spit her gum in the [Asus4]gutter. Leaned in as I lit it. At first she smelled like spearmint.
Then [Asus2]she smelled like[Am]
[Asus4]smoke.[Am]
[Asus4]Sev

[Verse 11]
[C]en am Sunday we walked down University towards Broadway. Stopped to get some coffee. She told me she's a hostess at a res
[Am]taurant. [Asus4]And in spring she'd started at Aveda but she couldn't really deal so she just [Am]stopped showing up.

[Verse 12]
Now she's [C]staying at her mother's in New Brighton. Trying to save some money. But her mother can't stay sober and she's sort of scared to leave
[Am]her. Even[Asus4]tually she'd like to live somewhere just a little warmer but for no[Am]w it's probably good enough right he[Asus4]re.

[Interlude 2]
[Am][C][Asus4][C][Asus4]

[Verse 13]
On a [C]bench along the river we watched a dragonfly and it's partner hover just above the water. She said she loves summer and
she's sad it's almost [A]over. She gets [Am]depressed around [Asus4]September. Re[Am]minds her of going back [Asus4]to school.[A][Am]

[Verse 14]
I told [C]her how last year I'd gone out to Seattle for a wedding and my cousin took us sailing on Lake Union. And in the middle of the stillness
[A]I felt an urgency to live where [Am]nobody [Asus2]knows me.[Asus4] Where all my prior sin s co[Am]uldn't be held against me.[Asus4]

[Verse 15]
I keep [C]thinking about just moving there and crashing with my cousin. Doing landscaping or something. But my cousin has two children and
Seattle [Am]is exp[A]ensive and funds have been e[Asus4]lusive. It'll probably never happe[Am]n and that's probably just as we[Asus4]ll.
[Am]Because I

[Verse 16]
[C]don't want to be some dude that makes a big deal out of moving then comes back a few months later a total goddamn failure. Like
when Fletch[Am]er went to Den[A]ver. He had three kegs at his send [Am]off. Then he [A]came back before [Am]Christmas and everyone was laughing.

[Verse 17]
They won't [C]let him forget it and they wont let him outlive it. Behind his back they call him Rocky Mountain Fletcher. They'll destroy you just
for trying something [Asus4]different. Now my voice [Am]was cracking. Pretty [Asus4]close to [Am]crying. She[A] put he[Asus4]r head against my [Am]shoulder.

[Verse 18]
Said the [C]ones that we've known [C]longest can pull us down the strongest. I put my arm around her and we sat and [C]watched
the water. Jealous of the movement of the current but maybe for [Asus4]a moment it was pretty good right here.