Etta James

	  		
Intro: D Bm D G (x2) 

verse 1 

         D                       Bm 
Did you spend most of your life waitin' 
      D                      G 
On a fairytale read between pages? 
         D                       Bm 
Did you huddle up close to your boombox radio 
    D               A       G 
Is somebody waiting on the same song? 
        Bm                    G 
And we sold our souls on the fantasies 
             D                           A 
we found in records and black and white movies 
       Bm                  G 
And I used to beg June to burn me alive, 
               D                   A 
if that would get me anywhere but here 

          D               A 
Now Etta James, hit that symphony 
           Bm                            G 
Cause she drips through my blood like a remedy 
         D 
And for most of my sad life 
   A                        Bm   A   G 
I figured I was gonna die alone 
               D                    A 
Cause I just burned in the curve of my scars 
        Bm                        G 
Twenty long years away from your heart 
         D        A                     Bm   A   G 
Til finally, finally, my love is in my arms 
                  D    Bm   D   A   G 
My love is in my arms 


verse 2 

              D 
And it was impossible 
               Bm 
to hold on to anything 
       D                             G 
In my chest was a lonesome, growing cyclone 
        D                           Bm 
I kept pictures tucked up into the rearview above 
        D              A       G 
to the sirens all lost in the ocean 
            Bm                    G 
And all we wanted was absolutely everything 
      D                     A 
Like foolish, hungry young lions 
       Bm                        G 
I was lost and alone, a million light years from home 
        D                  A 
It was nobody's fault but mine 

          D               A 
Now Etta James, hit that symphony 
           Bm                            G 
Cause she drips through my blood like a remedy 
         D 
And for most of my sad life 
   A                        Bm   A   G 
I figured I was gonna die alone 
               D                    A 
Cause I just burned in the curve of my scars 
        Bm                        G 
Twenty long years away from your heart 
         D        A                     Bm   A   G 
But finally, finally, my love is in my arms 


Bridge 

                 Bm           G 
And was there a hole in your life? 
         D 
Did you kill to keep warm but somehow 
A 
never quite satisfied? 
        Bm                            G 
Do you feel like it's always time to go? 
          D 
And it's always wrong, and it's always off, 
          A 
and it's hard to know, which heart to hold 
           Bm          G 
Now do you lie to someone, 
            D             A 
is someone else, on your mind? 
        Bm         G       D           A 
Do you lie to someone with me on your mind? 

          D               A 
Now Etta James, hit that symphony 
           Bm                            G 
Cause she drips through my blood like a remedy 
         D 
And for most of my sad life 
   A                        Bm   A   G 
I figured I was gonna die alone 
               D                    A 
Cause I just burned in the curve of my scars 
        Bm                        G 
Twenty long years away from your heart 
         D        A                     Bm   A   G 
Til finally, finally, my love is in my arms 
                  D 
My love is in my arms 


Outro 

      D           A 
Etta James, Etta James 
      Bm                           G 
Etta James, it's been a long time coming 
      D           A 
Etta James, Etta James 
      Bm                           G 
Etta James, it's been a long time coming 
     D        A 
(At last, at last) 
      Bm                           G 
Etta James, it's been a long time coming 
     D        A 
(At last, at last) 
      Bm                           G 
Etta James, it's been a long time coming 
G 
I could've said my love was coming 'long