Dan Mangan - Fire Escape Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
D                                 D
  Meet me out by the fire escape,   it’s been 40 nights and 40 days
           G                               G
and I’ve become uncertain in a cosmic way,   I chewed my fingers to the bone today.
D                                                            D
Oh, won’t you come around and come and meet me by the fire escape, untie this tied tongue tie.
G
  What is it that I wanna say? What is it that I really wanna say?
G
What are the words I’ve been choking on, hopin’ someone will articulate?
 
[Chorus 1]
D                                  D
  Oh, no, that’s some murky water,   alright, we’re in the trenches now.
A                                      A
  I don’t know when the party is over,   all I know’s I’m getting out somehow.
G G
    Oh, what a fever dream.
 
[Verse 2]
D                                 D
  Meet me out by the fire escape,   join the procession down the alleyway.
    G                                            G
Our freedom’s a joke and we’ve got debts to pay.   How many waves until the levee breaks?
D                                                   D
Oh, won’t you come around and meet me by the fire escape, untie these tied tongue ties.
G
  What is it that we wanna say? What is it that we really wanna say?
G
What are the truths we’ve been choking on, hoping someone will articulate?
 
[Chorus 2]
D                                  D
  Oh, no, that’s some murky water,   alright, we’re in the trenches now.
      A***                          N.C.
And I don’t know how the story ends   but the pages just turn over then turn over a - [Bridge] gain.
 
[Bridge]
G                                                          G
  And redemption’s always out of sight and just around the bend
                                                       D
and the outcome doesn’t match with what it is that I intend.
 
Like a stack of books that grows and gathers dust beside the be
D                                                           A
  or the disconnect between what people do and what they’ve said.
                                               A
And I wanna read the news maybe without losing my head.
                 D        D        A        A        G        G
Oh, what a fever dream.
 
[Outro] (Reprise Verse 1)
D                                 D
  Meet me out by the fire escape,   it’s been 40 nights and 40 days
           G                               G***
and I’ve become uncertain in a cosmic way,   I chewed my fingers to the bone today.