Death Cab for Cutie - Rand Mcnally

[Intro]
Dm F Bb Fadd9

[Verse 1]
Dm F
Rand McNally atlas, cheap coffee stain
Bb Fadd9
Now, I wouldn’t know how to use one with my life at stake
Dm F
You were waiting on a payphone at a truck stop in Houston
Bb Fadd9
Trying to call your mother, ’cause she’s a worrier
Dm F
Handful of twenties in your overcoat
Bb Fadd9
Always rolled into a pillow on some stranger’s floor
Dm F
And you tell these stories with happy endings
Bb Fadd9
Only when interrupted before they’re over

[Chorus]
Bb
But I won’t let the light fade
F
I won’t let the light fade
F C/E Dm C
Chasing these glows into dawn
Bb
I won’t let the light fade
F
I won’t let the light fade
F C/E Dm
Falling asleep in their arms

[Instrumental]
Dm F Bb Fadd9

[Verse 2]
Dm F
It seemed these highways were never-ending
Bb Fadd9
Circling odds and evens, the numbers ascending
Dm F
Searching through static in the Wyoming plains
Bb Fadd9
We danced to both types of music, as the old joke claims
Dm F
And I wanted for nothing, I couldn’t rent
Bb Fadd9
We lived on whiskey and Twizzlers, and youth’s discontent
Dm F
With this Rand McNally atlas dogging in frame
Bb Fadd9
Like Old Testament verses that don’t make sense in this decade

[Chorus]
Bb
Don’t let the light fade
F
I won’t let the light fade
F C/E Dm C
Chasing these glows into dawn
Gm
I won’t let the light fade
Dm
I won’t let the light fade
F C/E Dm C
Falling asleep in their arms
Bb
But I won’t let the light fade
F
I won’t let the light fade
C Dm
Chasing these glows into dawn

[Bridge]
Gm
And I’m holding on
Bb
Holding on

[Instrumental]
Dm F Bb Fadd9

[Outro]
Dm
I won’t let the light fade
F Bb Fadd9
I won’t let the light fade
Dm
I won’t let the light fade
F Bb Fadd9
I won’t let the light fade
Dm
I won’t let the light fade
F Bb F
I won’t let the light fade