Gm                       Eb
Boy on the bus with a startled face
F                       Cm
Delicate hands at the difficult age
Gm                      Eb
Clutching so hard at a plastic bag
F                      Cm
A masterpiece in bone and rag

Gm                     Eb
Inaminate ghosts on the 46
 F                             Cm
The wizened trees look like pick-up sticks
 Gm                    Eb
Everybody said she's a generous girl
               F                            Cm
Now they're pulling up her body from the black canal

[Chorus]

F      Gm                        Eb     Bb
Sweet defeat, I wanna leave the city so bad
F               Gm                  Eb         Bb
Dog tired on my feet, I wanna leave the city so bad
F                   Gm                      Eb                      Bb
Take everything we own, turn the lights off and go and never look back
F                        Cm         Eb
You just say the word, the word
           Gm
I won't say no

[Verse]

Gm                       Eb
I don't know, but I've noticed you
            F                         Cm
Ain't been walking that way with our boy, it's true
Gm                          Eb
Everywhere you look it's a burial ground
F                             Cm
Every swirling eddy where your dreams get drowned
          Eb
They get drowned

[Chorus]

F        Gm                     Eb       Bb
Sweet defeat, I wanna leave the city so bad
F               Gm               Eb             Bb
Dog tired on my feet, I wanna leave the city so bad
F               Gm                             Eb                Bb
Take everything we own, turn the lights off and go and never look back
F                          Cm
You just say the word, the word, the word

[Middle 8]

     Fm Eb D
The word“
     Fm Eb D
The word
     Fm Eb D
The word“
     Fm Eb D
The word“

[Chorus]

F         Gm                    Eb        Bb
Sweet defeat, I wanna leave the city so bad
F                Gm             Eb              Bb
Dog tired on my feet, I wanna leave the city so bad
F                Gm                       Eb     Bb
All the lonely streets, I wanna leave the city so bad
F                 Gm                      Eb                         Bb
Dog tired on my feet, on my feet, I wanna leave, I wanna leave, I wanna leave and
F                  Gm                            Eb                Bb
Take everything we own, turn the lights off and go and never look back
                    F                       Gm                 Eb               Bb
Never look back, everything we own, turn the lights off and go and never look back
F                           Cm
You just say the word, the word
            F              Cm
You just say the word, the word
            Gm
I won't say no

[Outro]

Gm                     Eb                   F
Boy on the bus, boy on the bus, boy on the bus
            Gm
I won't say no