Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 ( = x32033)

 ( = xx0230)

 ( = x02010)

the sidewalk bends where your house ends

 like the neighborhood is on its knees

 you're surrounded by a chain-link fence

 that keeps me out but lets me see

well i come by most every night

the shutters pounding in the breeze

a clothesline strung like paper kites

that blow my words right back at me

 back at me

 but someday when my heart exhales

i'll tell you everything

 these sweet words spilling all about us

 i'll say please please be with me

and i'll breath so easily

 but instead i'm turning blue

i look at you

 and keep my stupid mouth shut

the hall light streams out through the screens

and the shadows capture me in webs

just tangled up in what i've seen

and every word i have not said

i have not said

cuz the sidewalk bends where your house ends

like the neighborhood is on its knees