Kevin Devine - Cotton Crush Chords

 A2    B2
e-----------|
B--5--------|
G--6---9--8-|
D--7---9--9-|
A--0---x--x-|
E------9--9-|

INTRO:

e--------------------------|
B--4--2--4--2---2--2--2--2-|
G--2--2--2--2---4--2--4--2-|
D--2--2--2--2---2--2--2--2-|
A--0--0--0--0---0--0--0--0-|
E--------------------------|

first verse is the intro repeated

A
The bricks get laid,
and they get torn up,
and laid again,
                C#m
but the bricks always get torn up again.

A
Your friends won't wait,
so don't believe that sh*t,
when they say they'll wait.
                C#m
Trust me; your friends will not wait for you.

C#m - B - A

                A             B7
Then you'll be stoned in some park,
                   C#m                     E
just nodding your head and pinching your arms,
                    A
when a girl walks along.
                    B7
She's humming your song,
                C#m
with your t-shirt on.
                    E
That's when you're done,
                          A2
Oh, that's when you're done...

A2-B2-A

A
There's a cotton crush
A
down in the southern states.
A
But back up here, man, we've got
         C#m
so much thread and space
to waste, waste, waste.

C#m - B - A

A
There's a microphone
picking every word up
and it shuts itself off
                           C#m
when it's sure that's its heard enough.....

          B      A
The quiet can scr*pe
                        B
all the calm from your bones,
               C#m
but maybe it should.
                     E
Maybe we need to be hollowed
                  A
to get up and grow,
                   B
and stop f**king around,
                 C#m                            E
to kick off our braces and start straightening out.
                       A
Let's sift through the static
                   B
to find a simpler sound
                        C#m
Let's sift through the static
                   E
to find a simpler sound...
           A                B
A simpler sound, a simpler sound
         C#m                          E                  A
simpler sound than the sh*t that's clouding our heads now

A - B7 - C#m - E