The Splendid World Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][F#][Daug][F#][Bm]
[G][D][A][Asus4][A]

[Verse 1]
[Em]This
year's robin's breast is not as red
[D]The entire nest is underfed
[G]Every bed I've mad[D]e has broken
down
[A][Asus4][A][G]

[Verse 2]
[Em]The AA meeting is letting out
[D]From the parking lot where
my mother let me try out
[G]Driving my grandfather's [D]car
when I was just fourteen
[Asus4][A]

[Verse 3]
If the splendid world
wants to [G]end and rid us
I [D]wish it'd just get on with it
an[F#]d forbid us[G]
I can't keep [D]track of what I own
[F#]

[Verse 4]
[A]My brightest day was
poison[G]ous but agile
[D]And then you decay in a way [F#]so fragile
[G]In the sticky sha[D]de with an ice cream con[E]e[Bb]
[D]

[Interlude 1]
[Daug]
[F#][Daug][F#][G][D][Asus4][A]

[Verse 5]
[Em]Whatever happened to the little sailboat
We [D]kept behind the shed
but only once made float?
[G]I used to climb upon i[D]t onto
the roof
[A][Asus4][A][G]

[Verse 6]
[Em]And now the earwigs climb the trashcan
I fig[D]ure I'll become
a sort of watery man
[G]Pissing in my night backyard
[D]Distributing the proof
[A]

[Verse 7]
You can keep a record of [G]all your meals
[D]And the way that eac[F#]h day feels
[G]Safe and well- pre[D]served
in some hidden cavity
[F#]

[Verse 8]
[A]But all your private and
[G]precious [D]locales
All your hidden heavens and [F#]all your pals
[G]Are gonna [D]succumb
to the brutal [E]gravity
[Bb]Baby I know

[Interlude 2]
[Bm][Daug]
[G][D]
[Asus4][A]

[Verse 9]
The splendid world is im[G]mune to flattery
[D]It burst me on the sidewalk
like a [Bm]run- over battery
[A]All[G] my metallic in[D]nards
come pooling [A]out[Bm]

[Verse 10]
[A]To try to name this is to be [G]less famous
If I were [D]dumber and detestable
I'd be [Bm]more successful
But on [G]the sharp scorched grass
there's nothing [A]else to sing about
[D][A]