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