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