Ivy & gold
instrumental
intro = verse 1
C F
1. Waking, sitting up right, can’t explain the sunlight,
C Dm
wondering
why you’re not home,
C F
girl,
I walk beside you, left before you tried to
C G C
work
out all the unknowns.
C F
2. Blame it all on me when I forget to defend
C Dm
everything
that we worked out,
C F
something
in her wording I cannot help searching
C G C
for
what memory found.
C7 C
Thought it stopped just as it
starts,
C7 F
C
- F - C - G - C
but
that is not what you are.
C7
C
You're a layer on my clothes,
C7 F C
made of ivy and gold. + instrumental =
verse 1
C F
3. Meet me in the hallway, bite your lip when I
say,
C Dm
never
have you left my mind,
C F
stop
and think it over, smiling, moving closer,
C G
C
oh,
what delicate time.
C F
4. Blame it all on my when I forget to defend
C Dm
everything
that we worked out,
C F
something
in her wording, I guess she was just searching
C G
C
for
some solitary sound.
C7 C
Thought it stopped just as it
starts,
C7 F C - F - C - G - C
but
that is not what you are.
C7 C
You're a layer on my clothes,
C7 F
C - F - C - G - C
made
of ivy and gold.
C7 C
You're a layer on my clothes,
C7 F C
made
of ivy and gold. + instrumental = verse 1
(orig. = capo 1st) (Bombay Bicycle
Club)