Chords for Regina Spektor - Buildings (11:11)

_ [G#] _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ [C#] _
_ He was a husband who drove his [F#] wife home drunk [G#] from the parties.
[F#] He was a [G#] husband who drove his [C#] wife home.
[G#] _
And in the car he would lean her head gently against the side door window.
[F#] And in the bathroom [G#] he would hold her hair back and [C#] hold.
[G#]
He'd say, you know, [C#] they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, oh.
They build [A#] buildings, oh, they build [F#] buildings, oh.
[C#] They build buildings, oh, they build buildings, oh.
They build [C] buildings so tall [C#] these days.
In the morning [G#] she'd wake up and [D#] crouch, [G#] recollections all day.
But she would always, always wake up the next morning.
_ He'd take one look at her and say, oh, [F#] it's [G#] okay.
And her [C#] conscience [G#] would issue yet another last warning.
_ Saying, oh, they build buildings, oh, they build [F#] buildings, oh.
They build buildings, [A#] oh, they build buildings, oh.
They [C#] build buildings, oh, they build buildings, oh.
They [C] build buildings so tall these [C#] _ days.
[A#] And she'd ask for time, [F#] and she'd ask for [C] time, and she'd ask for time, and she'd ask for time,
and she'd beg for [F#] time, and she'd beg for [G#] time, and call it a gift.
[C] [A#] And he would give her [F#] time, and he'd give her [C] time, and he'd give her time,
[A#] but time is not giving [F#] and time is not [C] taking, it just [C#] sifts through [C] itself.
But [A#] time is not giving [F#] and time is not [C] taking, it just sifts through itself.
[D#] _ _ [G#] _ _
_ _ _ [D#] Sifts through itself.
[G#] _
Just sifts through itself. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [G#] Sifts through [C#] itself.
[G#]
Just [C#] sifts through itself.
[G#] And there'd be coffee and coffee and coffee and [F#] coffee and coffee and [G#] coffee some more.
[C#] He'd go to [G#] work and she'd take a [C#] sick day and rot at the [G#] core.
[F#] And by the time he came [G#] back she'd scrub the [F#] bathrooms and make them smell [G#] like pine.
And it would be [C#] almost as [D#] if nothing had [F#] happened and he'd give her [G#] time, oh, [F#] oh, and he'd give her [G#] time.
[F#] Saying, [C#] oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, oh, they build [A#] buildings, oh, don't they build buildings, oh,
they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, oh, they build [C] buildings so [C#] tall these days.
[A#] And she'd ask for [F#] time, and she'd ask for time, and she'd ask for time,
and she'd beg for time, [A#] and she'd beg for [F#] time, and she'd beg [C] for time, and call it a gift.
[A#] And he would give her [F#] time, and he'd give her [C] time, and he'd give her [C#] time, and he'd give her time.
[A#] But time is not given [F#] and time is not [C] taken, it just sifts [C#] through itself.
[A#] But time is [F#] not given and time is not taken, [C] it just sifts through itself.
[F#] _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [G#] _
Sifts through itself.
_ Sifts through itself.
_ [C#] _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] _ [G#] _
Sifts through itself.
_ Sifts through itself.
_ [C#] Sifts [G#] through itself.
_ [C#] _ _
[G#] _ _ Sifts through [C#] itself.
Core warning, last warning, was a husband [G#] type.
Find scrub, scrub, bathroom, clean, hair, [D#] back, car, window, whole [G#] time, give, don't they [C#] build buildings [G#] tall these days. _ _ _ _ _
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