Standard (EADGBE)

 -In the chorus, he hammers on the to progress up and down to the next chord;

 it's not an actual / or / chord really.

Intro

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I am a fly on the wall of a house where the

 windows are always broken

I am a pause in a storm on a dark step

 whenever your name is spoken

be a man about this

 be a man about this

 be the coward or the kiss

 be a man about this

and somewhere the salt in the air of a season

 that tattoos the head of an island

 so northern

and some air is knitting the day for a woman

 whose eyes are upon the horizon

 boy

be a man about this

 be a man about this

 be the boredom or the bliss

 be a man about this

Play verse chords

be the number or the name

be the picture or the frame

be the shoulder or the shame

be the moth or her flame

I am the birth of a dawn through the curtains

 the hurt of a dawn through a curtain

be a man about this

 be a man about this

 be a man about this

 be a man about this

be a man about this

 be a man about this

 be a man about this

 be a man about this

be the coward or the kiss

 be the bliss

be a man about this

be a man about this