🎶 The Man with the Axe

[Bbm]If I had to break it [D]down
I'd say it's the [Abm]way [Bbm]you love to dance
[F#m7-5]Movin' the [D]furniture when my back is [C]turned
The [B7]flick of the lights and the world falls away

And your [Bbm]office job and your [D]silver hair
But our [Abm]shapes in the dark are the [Bbm]reason I've stayed for [F#m7-5]all these years

I [Bbm]thought I was a [D]genius, but now I'm [Abm]twenty-two
And [Bbm]it's startin' to [F#m7-5]feel like all I know how to [D]do is
[C]Put on a suit and [G#]take it away

With my [Bbm]fistful of tunes that it's [D]painful to play
[Abm]Fingernail worlds like [Bbm]favorite seashells
[F#m7-5]They fill up my [D]nights and then they [C]float [B7]away

[Bbm]I've got hundreds of gowns, I've got [D]paintings in frames
And a [Abm]throat that fills with panic every [Bbm]festival day
[F#m7-5]Dutifully fallin' [D]apart for the Princess of [C] [B7]Norway

But [Bbm]you, with your [D]doll's lashes, your [Abm]infinite [Bbm]t-shirts
I [F#m7-5]should've known when your [D]favorite record was the [C]same as my father's
You'd [B7]take me down

I [Bbm]guess I'll always be this [D]way
Swallowed up [Abm]by the words, and [Bbm]halfway to space
[F#m7-5]But there, by the [D]fire, you offered your [C]hand
And as I [B7]took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan

[F]You felled me [G#]clean as a [F] [G#]pine
The [F]man with the [G#]axe and the [D7]lo- [E7]ok in his [F]eyes
[F] [G#] [F] [G#]
[F]We've been through so many [G#]hard times
I'm writin' a [F]love song for you, [G#]baby
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