Intro
Bm
[VERSE]
Bm
Between the cold drinks in the freezer
G
And the latest tabloid rags
E
B voice screams over the music
G
"Put the money in the bag!"
Bm
No one ever hears his reason
G
No one ever hears his name
E
This is all happening right now
G
Less than five miles away
[VERSE]
Bm
B shifty fortune teller
G
Communion with the dead
E
Lying about the astral plane
G
So she can keep her children fed
Bm
Listening to a mother sick with cancer
G
Wondering what she's gonna say
E
This is all happening right now
G
Less than five miles away
E
This is all happening right now
G
Less than five miles away
[VERSE]
Bm
There's a stranger in the bushes
G
Looking through the windows of a home
E
At a woman from the movies
G
That's been living there alone
Bm
She's home at seven in the evening
G
He sees the code punched in the gate
E
This is all happening right now
G
Less than five miles away
E
This is all happening right now
[BRIDGE]
A D
And it all looks so pretty from a distance
G
How we're living out this story that we tell
A D
Baby we were both designed out in the cosmos
G
As just a way of asking questions about itself
A D G
[VERSE]
Bm
You know the great writer that left us
G
Well his house is still around
E
Like an old dead volcano
G
That sleeps over the town
Bm
They're gonna turn it into condos
G
They'll be done by New Year's Day
E
This is all happening right now
G
Less than five miles away
E G
This is all happening right now
[OUTRO]
Am