The suburbs    (video)

 

   C - Am - E - G (2x)   

 

    C                         Am - E                       G

1.      In the suburbs, I,         I learned to drive,

                  C                                 Am  

    and you told me we’d never survive,

E                                  G

    grab your mother’s keys, we’re leaving.        +  C - Am - E - G

 

   C                                        Am   - E                  G

2.    You always seemed so sure         that one day we’d be fighting

C                        Am   - E                      G

    in a suburban war,        your part of town against mine.

                       C                                     Am

    I saw you standing on the opposite shore,

E                    G

    but by the time the first bombs fell,

     C                        Am      - E                              G

    we were already bored,        we were already, already bored.

 

C                       Am                   - E                      D

    Sometimes I can’t believe it,        I’m moving past the feeling.

C                      Am                   - E                      D                        C

    sometimes I can’t believe it,       I’m moving past the feeling again.

 

     Am - E - G              C                          Am    - E 

3.                         The kids wanna be so hard,    

                       G                                                 C                             Am

    but in my dreams we’re still screaming, and running through the yard,

E                            G                                     C                       Am    - E

    when all of the walls that they built in the seventies finally fall,

                            G                                  C                       Am 

    and all of the houses they built in the seventies finally fall,

                                E                               G

    meant nothing at all, meant nothing at all, it meant nothing.

 

C                       Am                   - E                     D

    Sometimes I can’t believe it,       I’m moving past the feeling,

C                      Am                   - E                     D

    sometimes I can’t believe it,       I’m moving past the feeling,

           C                    -  Am - E - G

    and into the night.                             +  C - Am - E - G

 

 

 

 

 

 

     C                               Am     - E

4.      So can you understand,

                            G                                 C       - Am

    why I want a daughter while I’m still young,

                     E                              G

    I want to hold her hand, and show her some beauty,

         C                                 Am     - E                 G

    before all this damage is done,        but if it’s too much to ask,

             C                        - Am                            E      - G

    if it’s too much to ask,         then send me a son.

 

   C                          Am     - E                         G

5.    Under the overpass,         in the parking lot we’re still waiting,

          C                       - Am - E                         G

    it’s already passed,               so move your feet from hot pavement,

          C                - Am                              E                        G

  and into the grass,   ‘cause it’s already past, it’s already, already past.

 

C                       Am                   - E                      D

    Sometimes I can’t believe it,       I’m moving past the feeling,

C                      Am                    - E                     D                         C - Am

    sometimes I can’t believe it,       I’m moving past the feeling again.

E                      D                         C       - Am

    I’m moving past the feeling again,

E                      D                         C   - Am - E - G

    I’m moving past the feeling again.                        +  C - Am - E

 

                 G                                     C - Am - E

+  In my dreams we’re still screami................ng,

G                            C - Am - E    - G                             C - Am - E     - G

    we’re still screami.............ng,       we’re still screami.............ng.

 

+  C - Am - E - G     - C

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Arcade Fire)