Capo 3 

         C       G4   Am          F          G
Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall 
          C    G4  Am       F    G
Leave the death ledger under city hall 
         Am  C/B  C          F      G       C
Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today 

Gsus4 - Am - F - G 

Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet 
Leave the bird you killed at your father's feet 
Let the sideways rain in the crooked street remain 

Leave whimpering dog in his cold kennel 
Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal 
Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today 

Leave the sad guitar in its hardshell case 
Leave that worried look on your lover's face 
Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain 

Am                     F
Everything must belong somewhere 
    Am                                 F              G
The train off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs 
Am   C/B  C           F        G
Everything must belong somewhere 
  F                      G
I know that now, that is why I'm staying here 

C - G - Am - F - G 
C - G - Am - F - F

Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell 
Leave the widower in his private hell 
Leave the liberty in that broken bell today 

Leave the epic poem on its yellowed page 
Leave the grey macaw in his covered cage 
Let the traveling band on the interstate remain 

Everything must belong somewhere 
Sound-stage in California, televisions in Times Square 
Everything must belong somewhere 
I know that now that's why I'm staying here 
Am     F                    G
Yeah I know that now that's why I'm staying here 

Leave the secret talk on the trundle bed 
Leave the garden tools in that rusted shed 
Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today 

Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel 
Leave the homeless man in his cardboard cell 
Let the painted horse on the carousel remain 

Everything must belong somewhere 
Just like the gold around her finger and the silver in his hair 
Everything must belong somewhere 
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here 
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here 

   E                 Am
In truth the forest hears each sound 
     F             G
Each blade of grass as it lies down 
  E              Am
The world requires no audience 
F          Fm
No witnesses, no witnesses 

Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool 
Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool 
Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today 

Leave novelist in his daydream tumb 
Leave the scientist in her Rubik's cube 
Let true genius in the padded room remain 

Leave horse’s hair on that slanted bow 
Leave the slot machines on the riverboat 
Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today 

Leave the hot bright trash in the shopping malls 
Leave the hawks of war in their capitals 
Let the organ’s moan in the cathedral remain 

Cause everything must belong somewhere 
They locked the devil in the basement, threw God up into the air 
Yeah, everything must belong somewhere 
You know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here 
F                   G                      Am
You know it's true, why don't you leave me here? 

E - F