Parquet Courts - Walking At A Downtown Pace

[Intro]
F# B A
F# B A

F# D B
I’m making plans for the day all of this is through
B A
Seeing my path and hearing the song I’ll sing
F# D B
And food that I’ll taste and all the drinks that I’ll consume
B A
Return the smile on an unmasked friend
F# D B
As we take streets I don’t walk down ’cause I want to avoid
B A
Fighting temptation, walk at a downtown pace
F# D B
And treasure the crowds that once made me act so annoyed
B A F#
Sometimes I wonder, how long ’til I’m a face in one?

[Verse 2]
F# D B
You’d be surprised to learn what you could bear to lose
B A
Wanting and needing, not getting either one
F# D B
And planning the future as if time is yours to choose
B A
Pick out a movie, a sandwich from a screen
F# D B
Yeah, how many days in life will I spend underground?
B A
Hours in total, as many as it takes
F# D B
And how many ways of feeling lousy have I found?
B A
Lately uncounted

[Chorus 1]
E F#
I’ve found a reason to exist
E F#
Written on the tile
E F#
Of the platform wall
E C# B
Begging not to go extinct
A F#
To all those who saw

[Intro chords 4 measures]
F# B A

[Verse 3]
F# D B
How many times now have I walked into that room
B
With the day shining through purple film?
A F# D B
Combining sound from the corners that you use yourself to tune
B A
Like a piano, well-tuned and walking slowly
F# D B
Socks on the carpet while some kid watches my shoes
B
Feeling the sine like a bolt of lightning
A F# D B
House of dreams, you were once my cure for New York City blues
B A
Is this goodbye then?

[Chorus 2]
E F#
Will you be on the other side?
E F#
Waiting there for me?
E F#
Nothing left to want
E C# B A F#
Cashing in my claim to a world, life lived mostly free

[Instrumental Break]
F# B A
F# B A
B (16x) F# (16x)
B F# B (6x) D (2x)

Then solo – not sure what chords the rhythm guitar plays behind that.

[Chorus 2]
E F#
On the other side
E F#
Waiting there for me
E F#
Nothing left to want
E C# B A F#
Cashing in my claim to a world, life lived mostly free