Lorde - The Man With The Axe

Capo: 2nd fret

[Verse 1]
G D
If I had to break it down
F#m G
I’d say it’s the way you love to dance
Em7-5 D Bm
Movin’ the furniture when my back is turned
A7 N.C.
The flick of the lights and the world falls away

[Chorus]
G D
And your office job and your silver hair
F#m G Em7-5
But our shapes in the dark are the reason I’ve stayed for all these years

[Verse 2]
G D F#m
I thought I was a genius, but now I’m twenty-two
G Em7-5 D
And it’s startin’ to feel like all I know how to do is
Bm A
Put on a suit and take it away

[Chorus]
G D
With my fistful of tunes that it’s painful to play
F#m G
Fingernail worlds like favorite seashells
Em7-5 D Bm A7
They fill up my nights and then they float away

[Verse 3]
G D
I’ve got hundreds of gowns, I’ve got paintings in frames
F#m G
And a throat that fills with panic every festival day
Em7-5 D Bm A7
Dutifully fallin’ apart for the Princess of Norway

[Chorus]
G D F#m G
But you, with your doll’s lashes, your infinite t-shirts
Em7-5 D Bm
I should’ve known when your favorite record was the same as my father’s
A7
You’d take me down

[Verse 4]
G D
I guess I’ll always be this way
F#m G
Swallowed up by the words, and halfway to space
Em7-5 D Bm
But there, by the fire, you offered your hand
A7
And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan

[Chorus]
E A E A
You felled me clean as a pine
E A C7 D7 E
The man with the axe and the lo- ok in his eyes

[Break]
E / A
E / A

[Outro]
E A
We’ve been through so many hard times
E A
I’m writin’ a love song for you, baby

E / A / E