Cory Branan - The Corner Chords

Capo 5


Intro

C G F C x3
C G F F


Verse 1:

C                            F         G              C
Down on the corner of what I want, and what I tend to get
F                G                  C
day drinking and dreaming of you, I let
            G                       F  C
the ashtray smoke my last cigarette


C            G         F              G            C
Once I had a casual acquaintance with my impending doom
              G           C           
years ago she promised me some day soon
G               F         G
I'd howl at the moon from room to room



Chorus:

  G         F                C          
I ain't transcending much of nothing
          G                   C
I've been down in it, I ain't free
             Am                     C
Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went
       G           C  G C F    F
like a life out of me-e-e-e-e


Verse 2:

C               G                C        G              C
Clowning on the corner of almost gone but maybe not just yet
C               G              F            G            C
there's still a little left to pawn and the bones aren't set
    C       F          G         C
The cast is slack, the plaster's wet



C               G                 F                G
Stepping up the escalator singing hell I am out of here
C        G             C    G       C
past the predetermined terminals of tears
    F         C         G        C
the wings are warm, the runway's clear


Chorus:

  G          F               C
I ain't transcending much of nothing
          G                   C
I'm still down in it, I ain't free
             Am                     C
Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went
       G           C  G C F    F
like a life out of me-e-e-e-e




C                        G                    F         C
Maybe all the world's a hollow recreation, my desperate bretheren
G             C                F       G
hallowed blue hallucination we play to win
         G          F             G          C
put your right foot out, put your right foot in




Bridge (x2, second time strum):

           C             F                C        G     F
But it's a useful little illusion that'll lose you for a song
       C            F                  C            G       F
in the beautiful confusion you've been down and counting on




Chorus

  G          F               C
I ain't transcending much of nothing
          G                   C
I'm still down in it, I ain't free
             Am                     C
Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went
       G           C  G C F    F
like a life out of me-e-e-e-e




C                        F          G         C
Out on the corner what I want, what I tend to get
F                G                   C
day drinking and dreaming of you, I let
            G                        F  C
the ashtray smoke my last cigarette


End on C