Chords for Cat Power - Colors And The Kids (The Joint, 1999)

[G] Must be the colors _ and the kids [F] that keep me alive. _
_ _ _ [G] Cause the music _ _ _ is born [F] and made to dare.
_ _ _ Must be [G] the colors _ _ and the [F] kids that keep me alive.
Cause I wanna go [G] right away _ to _ _ [F] January _ _ 9th.
_ [C] I built [G] a shack with an old roof that
you were someone [F] I could learn from.
_ _ Someone I could [G] become.
Will you meet me down _ [F] on the sandy [A] beach?
We could roll up [G] our jeans _ _ _
so the tide [F] won't get us below the knee.
_ _ [G] _ _ YOLO world, you are [F] a funny bear. _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ YOLO world, _ you are such [F] a funny bear.
[A] _
_ _ [G] Slender fingers _ would hold me.
_ _ [F] Slender limbs would hold me.
And you could say [G] my name _ _ _ _ like you knew my [F] _ name.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ Become [F] someone better.
_ _ _ _ [G] Hey you, _ _ _ become someone [F] _ _
different.
_ Cause it's [G] so hard to go into the city.
Cause [C] you wanna say hello [F] to everybody.
[G] It's so hard to go into the city.
Cause [F] you wanna say hey, [A] maybe I know you, [G] everybody. _
When we were teenagers, _ [F] we wanted to be the sky.
Now all [G] we wanna do is go _ _ [F] places and try.
Must _ _ _ [G] be the colors _ and it must [F] be the fear.
_ Keep [G] me alive.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Must just be the colors and it must just [F] be the care.
_ _ [G] Keeps me alone _ _ _ _ in a [F] given night. _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _