The Man With The Axe

[Primeira Parte]

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
The flick of the lights and the world falls

Away

[Refrão]

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

[Segunda Parte]

    G               D
I thought I was a genius
                F#m
 But now I'm twenty-two
     G              Em7(5-)
And it's startin' to feel like
                  D
All I know how to do is
 Bm                A
Put on a suit and take it away

[Refrão]

         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
They fill up my nights and then they float
  A7
 Away

[Terceira Parte]

G
I've got hundreds of gowns
             D
I've got paintings in frames
       F#m
And a throat that fills with panic
          G
Every festival day
 Em7(5-)              D
Dutifully fallin' apart for the Princess
   Bm  A7
Of Norway

[Refrão]

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

[Quarta Parte]

    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

[Refrão]

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

( E  A )
( E  A )

[Final]

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

( E  A  E )