Lag Time Chords by Ani Difranco

Mm, mm, [A] mm.
_ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ There's [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [B] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [E] _
[Bb] _ [Bm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Bm] _ _
really [E] no [Bm] hope for me in that brief second rule.
[Gb] Something [C] gets dropped, [G] and still I'm the slowest damn fool.
[Em] Slow to realize [Bm] what's really going [D] on.
Slow [C] to know in a [G] moment what has gone wrong.
I'm on a [A] tightened down [D] on the lag time.
[A] _ _
I got a [G] tightened down on the lag time.
I got a [A] tightened down [D] on the lag [A] time. _
I got a [G] tightened down on the lag [D] time.
_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [A] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Em] Your [Bm] consonants were buzzing around your head like flies.
Your [C] true colors were [G] showing, and your shape and your size.
[Bm] You were drinking your way through [B] it.
I was shrinking right there inside [C] of my clothes.
[D] [Bb] My eventual 2020 [Db] arms crossed, tapping her toes.
[Em] _ _ [Gb] I [A] got a tightened [D] down [A] on the lag time.
I [G] got a tightened down on the lag time.
_ I [Abm] got a [A] tightened down on the lag [D] time.
[A] _ I [G] got a tightened down on the lag time. _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [Bm] _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Gbm] _ [Bm] _ Survivors are part, turtle way apart, potato bug.
We [C] know enough to go fetal, [G] tell it's still up above.
[Bm] And you gotta crawl through the desert between when you hear it
and when you can play it [C] with your hands.
[Bb] Just a rendezvous with whoever you [Db] are.
_ _ You [G] finally _ understand.
_ _ _ I got a [A] tightened down [D] on the lag time.
_ I got a [G] tightened down on the lag time.
I want [A] a tightened down on the lag [D] time.
[Abm] I got a [G] tightened down on the lag time.
[Abm] I got a [A] tightened down [D] [A] on the lag time.
I [Ab] got a [G] tightened down on the lag time.
I got [A] a tightened down on the lag.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ Yes.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ [F] _ [Bm] _
[E] _ [Bb] _ _ [B] _ _ [Bb] _ [A] _ _