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