Anniversary

[Verso 1]
 
         G                         D4/B 
Give me space from the distance, a break in the silence 
  C           F           G       D/F# 
A face to the surface and open my eyes 
        G                         D4/B 
Give me words with a purpose that hurt us and burn us 
    C          F         G          D/F# 
For brittling, kindling, tumbleweed lies 
    Em                D4/B 
She pulled my eye and touched me twice 
  C                        G          G/F# 
I froze when I felt the connecting of wires 
   Em                     D4/B 
So what I remembered, the accidental fires 
  Am7           Am7/G    F      D/F# 
I guess I must still be alive 



[Verso 2]
 
G                         D4/B 
Go ahead and pine for the pageantry of youth 
C            F                 G            D/F# 
Claim it and dream it, all the pretty girls do 
        G                            D4/B 
I could learn not to care, lose some weight, change my hair 
       C                             D4/9 
What a waste of the things I've been through 
           Em                        D4/B 
It doesn't happen in the dark or the silence, it's long 
     C                       G             G/F# 
It's there or it isn't, it's right or it's wrong 
        Em                                D4/B 
I feel smug when it's powerful, when it's wordless, mechanical 
C                  F         Am7  Am7/G     F 
Forceful when it's angry and sad  when it's gone 
D/F# 
 Yeah, it's sad when it's gone 


Instrumental: 
| 1  2  3  4 | 1  2  3  4  | 1  2  3  4 | 1  2  3  4  | 
|============|=============|============|=============| 
| G          | D4/B | G          | D4/B | 



[Verso 3]
 
G                           D4/B 
Someone new reminds you and that's how it ends 
  C           F                  G           D/F# 
Unfolds and rewinds you, and the years melt away 
   G                                  D4/B 
Of course it was wrong, you must have known it all along 
          C        F               G          D/F# 
It wasn't lazy, complacently, words you can't say 
    Em                          D4/B 
And now you don't have to, it's finally right 
       C                     G             G/F# 
It was all in the chemistry, now you don't fight 
            Em                      D4/B 
Through the night for connection, acceptance, deception 
        C       F              Am7  Am7/G      F     D/F# 
There's no recollection, only skin, touch, and sight 



[Verso 4]
 
      G                         Bm 
Thank God for reprieve, for the primitive peace 
   C        F          G      D/F# 
Discovering beautiful, easier ways 
    G                        D4/B 
And closing the door on that joyless old bore 
    C       F          Am7  Am7/G  F     D/F# 
Anniversary mercifully fading    away 
       Em                     D4/B 
It was just an old promise, a dogma at best 
   C                        G           G/F# 
A square on the calendar, a bulletproof vest 
        Em                    D4/B 
Be your own magic feather and put it to rest 
        C                     D4/9 
Give it back to the keeper of days 


Outro: 
                      G      Bm7 
It's just an ordinary day now 
                      G      Bm7 
It's just an ordinary day 
                 G   Bm7   G 
It's an ordinary day