Verse
D#m G#m B D#m
like the memory from your mother's house from before you got too old
D#m G#m B D#m
like the feeling from a photograph before it's meanings all got told
C# G#m F# G#m
the words I say can be silver, but what's left unsaid can be gold
G#m (slide or hammer on F# string from 2 to 4)
so get to know me once I go away
D#m
D#m G#m B D#m
maybe 'cause I come from such an empty-hearted town
D#m G#m B D#m
or maybe 'cause some love of mine had really let me down
C# G#m F# G#m
but the only time I am lonely is when others are around
G#m (slide or hammer on F# string from 2 to 4)
I just never end up knowing what to say
D#m
[Chorus]
B F#
if I wanted someone to clean me up, I'd find myself a maid
C# G#m
if I wanted someone to spend my money, I wouldn't need to get paid
B F#
if I wanted someone to understand me, I'd have so much more to say
C# A#m B
I want you to make the days move easy
[Verse]
D#m G#m B D#m
I took everything I thought from what it means to be a man
D#m G#m B D#m
we need words to be put to what we do not understand
C# G#m F# G#m
while you lean into the echoes and you do not raise a hand
G#m (slide or hammer on F# string from 2 to 4)
oh woman, help me see it like it is
[Chorus]
B F#
if I wanted someone to clean me up, I'd find myself a maid
C# G#m
if I wanted someone to spend my money, I wouldn't need to get paid
B F#
if I wanted someone to understand me, I'd have so much more to say
C# A#m B
I want you to make the days move easy
D#m G#m B D#m D#m G#m B D#m C# G#m F# G#m
D#m
[Chorus]
B F#
if I wanted someone to clean me up, I'd find myself a maid
C# G#m
if I wanted someone to spend my money, I wouldn't need to get paid
B F#
if I wanted someone to understand me, I'd have so much more to say
C# A#m B
I want you to make the days move easy
B F#
if I wanted someone to clean me up, I'd find myself a maid
C# G#m
if I wanted someone to spend my money, I wouldn't need to get paid
B F#
if I wanted someone to cut me down, I'd have handed you the blade
C# A#m B
I want you to make the days move easy
C# A#m A#m B
I just want you to make the days move easy
D#m G#m B Em