Chord Booklet

Mat Kearney

10 songs|11 chords used|Medium

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Key: EMedium

EIt took his breath away, Aholding the bank page

EHe got the letter they're Bgonna take their house away

EI'm bout to have a daughter, Ahe yells it in the air

EFeeling the weight of a world, Athat just don't care

EHe lit a cigarette, Afelt it on his lip

Edriving home on a long rBoad with regret

EHe pulls the window down, Ashouts it out loud

EPushing the pedal and praBying lord help us now

Ehe's looking for a reason, Awatching the sun coming dBown

Can you hear when we cEall,

There where we fAall,

EStanding our backs against the waBll,

Top of our luEngs, HallAelujah,

EWhere pain and love bleed into oBne

Baby, Awhen all you see is darEkness (Coming DBown Now)

AWe all need Forgiveness E (Coming BRound now)

EWoahoooh oh oh WAoahoooh oh oh (ComiBng Down Now)

EWoahoooh oh oh WoAahoooh oh oh B

EIt was Monday night, Aunder the street lights

EShe was turning seventeen in sBeven nights

EOut on fair grounds, Awalking in monotone

EShe kicks a bottle as empty as hBer soul

EOn the road alone, in a Ahouse that's half home

EThey give her pill just to kill wBhen she feels alone

EShe's looking for reason Awatching the sun coming dBown,

Can you hear when we cEall,

There where we fAall,

EStanding our backs against the waBll,

Top of our luEngs, HallAelujah,

EWhere pain and love bleed into oBne

Baby, wAhen all you see is daErkness (ComingB Down Now)

AWe all need Forgiveness E (Coming BRound now)

ETake these broken streets, Take these broken drAeams

EHold my my hand like we we're walking fBree

TeEll me it will change, I Asee it in your face

Ethe hope, the fear, the loAve, the faBith,

EI'm working late again slaving Ato make the rent

EI'm Slanging coffee with drams hBeavy as cement

EThey're coming one by one, the Aface of falling love

EI write a song with a prayer as I slide the cBup,

Can you hear when we cEall,

There where we fAall,

EStanding our backs against the waBll,

Top of our luEngs, HallAelujah,

EWhere pain and love bleed into oBne

Baby, Awhen all you see is daErkness (Coming BDown Now)

AWe all need Forgiveness E

Can you hear when we cEall,

There where we fAall,

EStanding our backs against the waBll,

Top of our lEungs, HAow far we've come,

EWhere pain and love bleed into oBne

All that we nEeed, its so biAttersweet

The pain that oEpens our eyes to sBee

ABaby, when all you see is darknesEs (ComingB Down Now)

AWe all need Forgiveness E (Coming Bround Now)

EWoahoooh oh oh WAoahoooh oh oh E (Coming BDown Now)

EWoahoooh oh oh WoAahoooh oh oh E (Coming BDown Now)

EWoahoooh oh oh WAoahoooh oh oh E (Coming BRound Now)

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Just Kids

Key: BMedium

'Cause it was BeBll Biv DeVoe, plCaying on my raFdio

And I had Wu-BTang Clan liCving in my steFreo

Mama said we're B6th generation OCregoniFans

I was rocking in JBordans wCith reflector tonguFes

Two kids withB wet cement liviCng down in their souFls

They say what gets caBught when you're young Cstays there when you're olFd

So mBisunderstood they say you're uCp to no gFood

And now we're trying our bBest to stCart it over aFgain

If I'd had met you at the plaByground

CBefore a hand coulFd tear your world down

Before I slammed down the dBoor and

You Csaid I'm just like myF old man

Before I put you in those boBxes

And we leCarned how to diFsagree

And how your family is a rocBket

That bloCws up in infiFdelity

For cryBing out loud I waCnna knFow

How the wBaves keep on crashing doCwn the dooFrs

Feel the Bweight of the world and they keCep on bringing moFre

If it's just yBou and me onC the floorF

Go grab your cBoat and I'll drCive us hoFme

Like we were just kiBds

CJust, j-j-Fjust kids

J-j-just kids, jusBt, just kidCs F

Like we werBe just kids

JCust kids, j-j-jFust kids

BJ-j-just kidCs, j-j-jusFt kids

Bob Marley was paintBed on my hiCgh-school walFls

But I just disappBeared intCo the darkroom hFall

Never thouBght I'd ever maCke it quite this Ffar

Teacher put up my phBotographs, sCay "son you'll be a stFar"

It was smoBking mirrors, ruCnning down through my veinFs

I kept on ruBnning downtown, runnCing from God's graFce

Every morning I'd climBb back through, Cthose window pFanes

And try my bBest to ride it out ovCer Instrumental tFapes

If I'd had met you at the plaByground

CBefore a hand coulFd tear your world down

Before I slammed down the dBoor and

You Csaid I'm just like myF old man

Before I put you in those boBxes

And we leCarned how to diFsagree

And how your family is a rocBket

That bloCws up in infiFdelity

For cryBing out loud I waCnna knFow

How the wBaves keep on crashing doCwn the dooFrs

Feel the Bweight of the world and they keCep on bringing moFre

If it's just yBou and me onC the floorF

Go grab your cBoat and I'll drCive us hoFme

Like we were just kiBds

CJust, j-j-Fjust kids

J-j-just kids, jusBt, just kidCs F

Like we werBe just kids

JCust kids, j-j-jFust kids

BJ-j-just kidCs, j-j-jusFt kids

BI can feel it in the waCy we tFry

FI can feel it in the way we fight

BWe're standing Cside by sideF

FLike we were just kiBds

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She Got The Honey

Key: GCapo 3Easy

GSays she likes me to all of her friends

Cold shoulders what she pretends

I buy Americano every morning

Rings me up and winks with no warning

GAt the park with nobody else

Purple boots and her basquiot belt

Lights up when she sees my face

Turns red as she's turning away

GAll I ever know baby

All these games that you're playing

You keep driving me crazy

We're gonna Dget there, get tChere

GShe got the honey, and DI got some money to Embuy her a big bouqCuet

GShe got the loving, Dleaves me with nothing, EmI just don't know what toC say

GWell I'd beg, steal, and Dborrow if Emtomorrow she'd Cstay

GShe got the honey, DI don't think it's funny that Emshe keeps walking aCway

GBack to the beginning D Em C

GSaw her down at the De La show

Walking in looking down at her toes

Tall like a flower on the wall

High heals stealing looks across the hall

GI walk up she's turning real red now

Deep breath "Hi, how you doing?" Wow

Caught you catch the corner of my eye

She got a call, gotta go, goodbye

We're gonna Dget there, get tChere

GShe got the honey, and DI got some money to Embuy her a big bouqCuet

GShe got the loving, Dleaves me with nothing, EmI just don't know what toC say

GWell I'd beg, steal, and Dborrow if Emtomorrow she'd Cstay

GShe got the honey, DI don't think it's funny that Emshe keeps walking aCway

GBack to the beginning D Em C

EmIt's amazing tChat I could be Gstanding tall D

It's like a million Emlightening bolts C

When she Gwalks right Dthrough the door

EmCrazCy every little Gway I fall DI come cEmrashing down C

We're gonna Dget there, get tChere, singin'

GShe got the honey, and DI got some money to Embuy her a big bouqCuet

GShe got the loving, Dleaves me with nothing, EmI just don't know what toC say

GWell I'd beg, steal, and Dborrow if Emtomorrow she'd Cstay

GShe got the honey, DI don't think it's funny that Emshe keeps walking aCway

GBack to the beginning D Em C

GOh, back to the beginning D Em C

EmIt's amazing, every little Cway I fall

I know you can Gfeel it all

When she wDalks right through

EmIt's crazy, every little Cway I fall

You come Gcrashing down'

We're gonna Dget there, get Cthere

Back to the beGginning

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Let It Rain

Key: DmMedium

Dm For every time Fthe tears are fallin' Bbdown your fCace

Dm For every night Fyou heard those three words Bbstart to Cchange

Dm When you're just Fclose enough to know how Bbfar you're awCay

Let it rainDm F Bb C

Dm When the heart Fyou've known feels like an Bbempty Chome

Dm And your frozFen hands just don't feel Bblike your Cown

When your Dmlove is caving Fand you don't have the strength to Bbroll back the Cstone

There's a Dmtime meant Ffor war, there's a Bbtime meant Cto pray

There's a Dmtime there's a time Fthere's a time there's a time when Bball you can Csay

Is Let it rDmai.F..Bb..nC

Let it rDmai.F..Bb..nC

Just becaDmuse it's pourFing down doesn't mBbean we're gonCna drown

There's a Dmtime there's a time Fthere's a time there's a time when Bball you can Csay

Is Let it rain

DmFBbC

Dm They say Fit's easier to Bbjust give Cup

Dm Like the promFises we made weren't Bbstrong enCough

Can we Dmturn down the road Fno one else seems to go with a Bbpioneer Clove

There's a Dmtime to kick doFwn the door, there's a Bbtime to run Caway

There's a Dmtime there's a time Fthere's a time there's a time when Bball you can Csay

Is Let it rDmai.F..Bb..nC

Let it rDmai.F..Bb..nC

Just becauDmse it's pouriFng down doesn't meBban we're gonnCa drown

There's a Dmtime there's a time Fthere's a time there's a time when Bball you can Csay

Is Let it rain

DmFBbC

Dm 'Cause you and IF can never hide just Bbrunning with Cthe wind

Dm We were bornF to be alive like we're Bbnever givCing in

Yeah we goDmt open eyes Fand another night to gDmive it all Caway

Every Dmtime every time Fevery time every time there's Bbnothing to Csay

Let it rain

Just becaDmuse it's pourFing down doesn't meBban we're gonCna drown

There's a Dmtime there's a time Fthere's a time there's a time when Bball you can Csay

Is Let it rDmai.F..Bb..nC

Let it rDmai.F..Bb..nC

Let it rainDm F Bb C

Let it rain

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Heartbeat

Key: FMedium

FI just feel it's bCurning tonight,Am you turn me right round Gbaby looking 45.

FI'm feeling Cevery song that tAmhis town could wrGite. (yeah yeah)

FHold a fire in Cmy hand, Amand the drummer in Gmy chest,

Fjust take one loCok at my eyes and tAmhey will confGess

That FyouC___Am__ got me fGeeling so FhigCh,_Am__ (yeah Gyeah)

that FyouC___Am_ are the rGhythm of my lFifeC, my liGfe.

I feel your hFeart beatC, beat, beat, bAmeating right Gnext to me

then kFeep, keep,C keep, got me Amfeeling likeG I believe

Dmall the thCings, baby, tGhat we could Ambe.

I feel your hFeart beatC, beat, beat, bAmeating right Gnext to me,

F C Ambeating rightG next to me,F C Ambeating rightG next to me.

FI fCeel your hAmeartbGeat, (yeah yeah) (3x)

your DmheartbCeat, your hAmeartbGeat.

F Ain't bringing youC no games,Am ain't leaning onG no cliché,

F if you're sharing myC bed, then babyAm, you share my nGame

'Cause FyouC___Am__ got me fGeeling so FhigCh,_Am__ (yeah Gyeah)

but baby, FyouC___Am_ are the Grhythm of my FlifCe, my lGife.

I feel your hFeart beatC, beat, beat, bAmeating right Gnext to me

then kFeep, keep,C keep, got me Amfeeling likeG I believe

Dmall the thCings, baby, tGhat we could Ambe.

I feel your hFeart beatC, beat, beat, bAmeating right Gnext to me,

F C Ambeating rightG next to me,F C Ambeating rightG next to me.

FI fCeel your hAmeartbGeat, (yeah yeah) (3x)

your DmheartbCeat, your hAmeartbGeat.

FCAmG

I feel your heart beat, beat, beat, beating right next to me

then keep, keep, keep, got me feeling like I believe

Dmall the thCings, baby, tGhat we could Ambe.

I feel your hFeart beatC, beat, beat, beating right next to me, (I feel it)

FI fCeel your hAmeartbGeat, (yeah yeah) (3x)

your DmheartbCeat, your hAmeartbGeat. (yeah yeah) 2x

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Ships In The Night

Key: EmCapo 2Easy

Like ships in the nEmight,

you keep passing me Cby

We're just wasting tGime

Trying to prDove who's right

And if it Emall goes crashing into tChe sea,

If its just yGou and me trying to fiDnd the light.

Like ships in the nEmight letting cannon balls flying,

Say what you mCean and turn to a fight

And fists flyG from my mouth, it turns south,

you're down theD driveway and I'm on the couch

Chasing dEmreams since the violent 5th grade,

Trying to beClieve in your silent own way

Cause we'll be Gokay, I'm not going away

like you watching at fourDteen as it went down the drain

And pops stayed the sEmame, and your moms moved away

How many of our pCarents seemed to make it anyway?

We're just fGumbling through the grey,

Trying find a hDeart that's not walking away.

I turn the liEmghts down low

Walk these haClls alone

We can fGeel so far from soD close

Like ships in the nEmight,

you keep passing me Cby

We're just wasting tGime

Trying to prDove who's right

And if it Emall goes crashing into tChe sea,

If its just yGou and me trying to fiDnd the light.

Like ships in the nigEmht,

you keep passing me byC.

You keep passing me byG,

like ships in the nighDt.

And I'm at the aiEmrport waiting on a second plane,

Had to pCack, you had cramps and I was late

Headed to a rGed carpet, they won't know my name

Riding in sDilence all that we wanna say

About to bEmoard when you call on the phone

You said, "I'm sCorry I'll be waiting at home."

Feels like we're lGearning this out on our own

Trying to find our Dway down road we don't know.

I turn the liEmghts down low

Walk these haClls alone

We can fGeel so far from soD close

Like ships in the nEmight,

you keep passing me Cby

We're just wasting tGime

Trying to prDove who's right

And if it Emall goes crashing into tChe sea,

If its just yGou and me trying to fiDnd the light.

Like ships in the nigEmht,

you keep passing me byC.

You keep passing me byG,

like ships in the nighDt.

Em And I'm gonna find my wayC back to your side G D

Like ships in the nEmight,

you keep passing me Cby

We're just wasting tGime

Trying to prDove who's right

And if it Emall goes crashing into tChe sea,

If its just yGou and me trying to fiDnd the light.

Like ships in the nigEmht,

you keep passing me byC.

You keep passing me byG,

like ships in the nighDt.

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Learning To Love Again

Key: AmCapo 4Medium

AmYour poker fGace ain?t fooling Fnobody, noboCdy here

AmWe?ve all feGlt the flame and sheFd those same Ctears

AmDriving home to a oGne man hell, still cFounting years, sCtill counting years

AmHey brothGer we?re all lFearning to love agaCin

Am?Cause that was the rGeal you running thFrough the fields of gCold wide open

AmStanding in Gplaces no picFture contaiCns

AmThat was the rGeal you, windows doFwn, we could smell the minCt fields crying

AmSing with the rGadio to sonFg we can?t naCme

AmThat was the reGal you saying, ?MFaybe I?m not too youCng to be a cowboy.?

AmHey brotheGr, we?re all leaFrning to love Cagain

AmMaking up your beGd that day on a Fforeign floor between fCoreign walls

AmThinking ?bout the wGords you?d say to a pFhone that never cCalls

AmFeel the weight of your fathGer?s ring and Fall those dreams, and aCll those dreams

AmHey brGother, we?re all leaFrning to love Cagain

Am?Cause that was the rGeal you running thFrough the fields of gCold wide open

AmStanding in Gplaces no picFture contaiCns

AmThat was the rGeal you, windows doFwn, we could smell the minCt fields crying

AmSing with the rGadio to sonFg we can?t naCme

AmThat was the reGal you saying, ?MFaybe I?m not too youCng to be a cowboy.?

AmHey brotheGr, we?re all leaFrning to love Cagain

Am?Cause that was the reGal you standing thFere in the shCape of your body

AmFear don? Gknow no love when wFe?re all the sCame

AmThat was the reGal you lookiFng back acroCss the water

AmTears falling like rGain, drops ripplFing against the sChame

AmThat was the reGal you singing hallelFujah, looking down aC barrel

AmHey brotheGr, we?re all leaFrning to love Cagain

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Young Dumb And In Love

Key: GEasy

Well it was Gme and Burkam running Ccircles round the joint,

Trying to jEmump on the circus trying to Dget across our point.

Yeah, we were Gyoung and dumb and Clooking for a fight,

Burning Emboth ends of the candle at both Dends of the night.

She was wGalking gracefully like she Cstepped out of a cocoon,

Down tEmhrough Manhattan Boulevard andD First Avenue.

With her Gblack frame glasses and her CDaisy perfume,

I saidEm, "Have we met before?" She said, D"No, it's only noon."

Uh oh...C to be young and dumb and in lDove,

CTo be young and dumb and in lDove.

GBaby, you got me Cten feet off the ground,

EmI'm talking too much, and Dyou don't make a sound.

GThe prettiest face and those roCck-a-bye baby browns,

EmAll I've waited for's come Dtrue.

To be yGoung and dCumb and in lDove,

WiGth you, you, you, you.

Well, we Gsat in the park grass so Cscared of the past,

Tolling rEmound like blankets, oh, thisD won't last.

Dancing to Gfive spot records with Csmoke in the air,

You could Emsmell it the morning, you could sDmell it in her hair.

Found mGyself on my knees a little Cmore each night,

is this what Emi've waited for for aDll of my life.

Gput your hand with a featherC tattoo on your wrist.

on this sEmkinny little white boyDs fat hustling hips.

Guh oh to be Cyoung and dumb and in Dlove,

to be Gyoung and dCumb and loDve.

GBaby you got me Cten feet off the ground,

EmI'm talking too much and Dyou don't make a sound.

GThe prettiest face and those Crockabye baby browns,

EmAll I've waited for's come tDrue.

To be yGoung and dCumb and in lDove,

with yoCu you you you

she's not like any other giGrl,

she's got me cDrying first, dying first, wCaiting for the repo maGn.

GWell under the weeping willows and a sCea firing flies,

With your Emgypsy necklace and my Dbig brown bow tie.

You kGissed my lips like I was Ccatching a flight,

I said iEmf I'm honest I fell for you Dthat first night.

If I'm honest ID fell for you that first night

that firDst night oh ohG oh

To be yGoung and dCumb and in Dlove

to be young and dumb and in love

with you you you

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Rochester

Key: CCapo 4Medium

CI was born in Rochester Fto a book making man

Chad a fake cigar shop with the gaGmes on in the back

Csee them coming and going letting it ridFe on thorough breads

Cthe police chief and tom hall wondering Gwhat was the spCread

CI carried rich man?s bags through brier Ftrying to chase down a little white ball

Clearned that any soft place wasnG't good for me at all

Cdaddy'd come home fired up lookiFng for some sort of release

Che'd beat the hell of Timmy and GTimmy'd beat the hell out of meC

FI would hop the fence out to those government fields C

Frun till there was nothing left Cto feel

Flying there watching planes justC disappear

Gknowing one day I?m gonna fly on out of Chere

Cthe same police chief came knocking my fFirst freshman day

pCut my daddy in handcuffs and his picGture on the front page

Ctook every one of his suits and all mFy dignity

CI?d walk the halls of irodiquie Gwaiting for any punk toC set me free

FI would hop the fence out to those government fields C

Frun till there was nothing left Cto feel

Flying there watching planes justC disappear

Gknowing one day I?m gonna fly on out of Chere

Cgot that call to Vietnam just liFke everyone else i knew

Cso scared of the hand grenades through them fartGher than any other troop

Ccame home like an iron fist and FTimmy tried to take my keys

Cripped open his from pocket that was the last tiGme he touched mCe

Cmoved to an island out west and Fup to Breckenridge

Cmet a mermaid on a glass boat and she prGomised me some kids

Cbought a house in Oregon where you couldF touch both of the walls

Chad a son named Benjamin and i wGas so scared of it alCl

Cwell Benjamin walked in the front room where I wFas cutting up my hash

Clooked into his deep blue eyes wondering wGhy I?d been so mad

Cflushed a quarter pound down the drain praying for the mFercy to confess

Ctrying to rip the boy from Rochester rigGht out of my chCest

Fwere gonna walk right out into those heavenly fiCelds

Frun like there was no more time to stealC

Fmy three boys and the grace of god reveaCled

Gknowing one day you're gonna take me out of hereC

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10.

Seventeen

Key: GEasy

GI was only seventeen living out a reDckless dream,

Riding those sumCmer streets to the corner of HigGh and 13

GMe and other city boys running tDoo wild and too bored

Looking for a grCown man's toys out at that corneGr store

CWell they threw the money to me Gand somebody's IC.D. G D

GI was in the parking lot sCcared as hell

Sending Emsixteen dollars down a wishiGng well

GTwo bottles of wine, those Cred and blue lights

Took a tEmrip down town for the very fiGrst time

CWatching my own life flGash before Cmy eyes G D

Like I was seveCnteen G

She was from acrGoss the tracks with the privatDe school laugh

We were both falCling too fast down a river that wouldnG't last

It was onlCy one Gnight and our Cfirst timeG D

GI was in the parking lotC scared as hell

Sending Emsixteen dollars down a wishiGng well

GI held her tight betweenC those yellow lines

Sat therEme crying about a miscarried Glife

CWatching my own life flGash beforCe my eyes G D

Like I was seveCnteen

Oh it was a lifGetime ago

I pCray for mercy walking on downG that road

I met thDe woman of my dreams, she said yDes to me

And she said, "BCaby I'm late,G neCver this late. I'Gm feelingC a change. We G

DShould find out either way."

And I'm Cgrabbing my keysG and I'm shuttinCg the front doorG

CI can hardly breGathe driving thaDt familiar road

And I'm Cparked between those yelGlow lines

CLooking down that aisGle

CDon't know whether to laGugh or whether tDo cry

GI'm in the parking lot sCcared as hell

Sending Emsixteen dollars down a wGishing well

GTwo pink lines or maybe Cjust one

Could beEm my daughter or it couldG be my son

CWatching our own liveGs flasCh before my eyes G D

Like I was sevenCteen G

CFunny how the years swGitch aroCund the tears thGat way

Like I was sevenCteen G

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