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