Intro
Dm
[VERSE]
Dm
Between the cold drinks in the freezer
A#
And the latest tabloid rags
G
D voice screams over the music
A#
"Put the money in the bag!"
Dm
No one ever hears his reason
A#
No one ever hears his name
G
This is all happening right now
A#
Less than five miles away
[VERSE]
Dm
D shifty fortune teller
A#
Communion with the dead
G
Lying about the astral plane
A#
So she can keep her children fed
Dm
Listening to a mother sick with cancer
A#
Wondering what she's gonna say
G
This is all happening right now
A#
Less than five miles away
G
This is all happening right now
A#
Less than five miles away
[VERSE]
Dm
There's a stranger in the bushes
A#
Looking through the windows of a home
G
At a woman from the movies
A#
That's been living there alone
Dm
She's home at seven in the evening
A#
He sees the code punched in the gate
G
This is all happening right now
A#
Less than five miles away
G
This is all happening right now
[BRIDGE]
C F
And it all looks so pretty from a distance
A#
How we're living out this story that we tell
C F
Baby we were both designed out in the cosmos
A#
As just a way of asking questions about itself
C F A#
[VERSE]
Dm
You know the great writer that left us
A#
Well his house is still around
G
Like an old dead volcano
A#
That sleeps over the town
Dm
They're gonna turn it into condos
A#
They'll be done by New Year's Day
G
This is all happening right now
A#
Less than five miles away
G A#
This is all happening right now
[OUTRO]
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