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