An Ode To The Nite Ratz Club
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[Verse]
DM7 DM7
The gas inside the combustion engine
B7sus2 A
Took away all of the mystery and adventure
D D
From the walk to your house in the dark
D B7sus2
So that we could stay out all night long
A D
And be king of all the roads
D D
And the woods and the lake
B7sus2
Or anything we chose
A D
Because everything was ours
D B7sus2
And we would spraypaint "NRC"
A D
So everyone would know
[Chorus]
B7sus2*
We would break into the factory
D*
Our childhood autonomy
F#m* E*
Had no respect for authority or property
B7sus2*
Or your asshole neighbors' complaints
D*
And I still have all the keys
F#m* E*
To the forklifts that we never got a chance to drive around
Or tear the building down ourselves
[Verse]
B7sus2 D
But from the top of the water tower
F#m
We spilled our guts on one another
E
And we compiled them together
B7sus2
And we all shared the same heart
D
And we hated all construction
F#m
But we loved all their machines
E
And they hated our destruction
And we picked their locks apart
[Pre-Chorus]
B7sus2 A D
And we thought we were damn clever
B7sus2
Because they never kept us out
A D
And we thought we'd live forever
Until the night when
[Chorus]
B7sus2
It got way too serious
D
And you showed me your damaged wrists
F#m
And you broke down and we embraced
E
And nothing at that time meant more to me
B7sus2 D
And if I had only known that it would be the last time
F#m E
We'd be on that level with one another
I would have never let you go
[Instrumental]
B7sus2 D F#m E (4x)
[Outro]
B7sus2 D
And I still walk those paths at night, but now just on my own
F#m E B7sus2
I recite to myself every story in hopes that I will never let them go
D F#m
And I'll hold on to every Polaroid from France and Rome
E
And remember the nights at the Alamo
B7sus2
As if it were my second home
D
And I know that we had no idea what we were doing
F#m
But an artist's first work can be his greatest
E
Under a different set of lenses
B7sus2 D
And our ideas of staying close together for all time
F#m E
I wish I still had that same state of mind
How to play An Ode To The Nite Ratz Club
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What is the starting chord?
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