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