The Great Divide

Intro Am  G  C  F  

 
C                  Dm                F 
I can't recall the last time that we talked 
      C            Dm              F 
About anything but looking out for cops 
       C                      Dm               F 
We got cigarette burns in the same side of our hands 
                             C 
We ain't friends, we're just morons 
    Dm                     F 
Who broke skin in the same spot 
         C              Dm               F 
But I've never seen you take a turn that wide 
        C              Dm              F 
And I'm high enough to still care if I die 
     C                 Dm 
So I tried to read the thoughts 
           F 
That you'd worked overtime to stop 
         C                    Dm            F 
You said fuck off, and I said nothing for a while 

 
 
F                C 
You know I think about you all the time 
Em                  F 
And my deep misunderstanding of your life 
F                        C 
And how bad it must have been for you back then 
Em                     F 
And how hard it was to keep it all inside 

 
 
F                         C 
I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich 
Em                           F 
I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit 
F                             C 
Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin 
Em                         F 
And not your soul and what He might do with it  

Interlude Am  G  C  F  


 
C                   Dm               F 
You inched yourself across the great divide 
         C              Dm                   F 
While we drove aimlessly along the Twin State line 
        C               Dm            F 
I heard nothing but the bass in every ballad that you'd play 
          C                Dm              F 
While you swore to God the singer read your mind 
        C                  Dm         F 
But the world is scared of hesitating things 
           C              Dm              F 
Yeah, they only shoot the birds who cannot sing 
        C        Dm          F 
And I'm finally aware of how shitty and unfair 
          C                Dm             F 
It was to stare ahead like everything was fine 

 
 
F                  C 
You know I think about you all the time 
Em                  F 
And my deep misunderstanding of your life 
F                        C 
And how bad it must have been for you back then 
Em                     F 
And how hard it was to keep it all inside 

 
 
F                         C 
I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich (oh-oh) 
Em                           F 
I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit (oh-oh) 
F                             C 
Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin (oh-oh) 
Em                         F 
And not your soul and what He might do with it  



       Am G C F 
Ah-lord 


 
Em     F 
  Rage, in small ways 
Em                        F 
Did you wish that I could know 
Em             F 
That you'd fade to some place 
Em                    F 
I wasn't brave enough to go? 

 
 
F                         C 
I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich 
Em                           F 
I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit 
F                             C 
Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin 
Em                         F 
And not your soul and what He might do with it 


F            Am G C F 
Ah (ah), woah 
 Am G C F 
Ah 
  Am G C F 
Ah, Lord 
 Am G C F 
Ah 

Final 

F                              C 
I hope you threw a brick right into that stained glass 
Em                             F 
I hope you're with someone who isn't scared to ask 
F                             C 
I hope that you're not losing sleep about what's next 
Em                          F 
Or about your soul and what He might do with it