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