Archer vs. Gunman: LYRICS

She takes a pretty picture. (capo 1^st fret, key of g#)

THEME- G#, end on Fm

VERSE- G#, A#m, Fm, C#

I tried to wire cage, the wind that carried her sweet perfume.

I tried to replicate, the sound of unrequited love.

BRIDGE- D#7, A#m, D#7, A#m, Cm, C#

If it sounds like I’m reaching I’m sorry. Sometimes these feeling are hard to put into words.

CHORUS- (2 X) C#, G#, D#

C#, Cm, Fm

She takes such pretty pictures.

She takes a pretty picture…

OUTRO BIT- (2 X) A#m, Fm

And I don’t know how to let go.

I don’t know how to let go.

I tried to disrupt the signals that run from her head to heart.

I tried to delay the end; I tried to make our love new once more.

Sometimes I get confused. Sometimes I think that maybe I still love her.

She takes such pretty pictures.

She takes a pretty picture.

And I don’t know how to let go.

She takes such pretty pictures

She takes such pretty pictures.

She takes a pretty picture.

End on g#.

oh kassi (KEY OF Em)

CHORUS- (2 X) C, G, D, Em

C, G, D, C, Bm, Am

VERSE 1- Em, D, C, G, D, C, D

Em, D, C, G…D, C, D

Oh kassi lets go out tonight

Ive got some two dollar bills and I feel uptight

Those girls aint hot, but they dance alright

Oh kassi lets go out tonight

Lets flip a table and get into a fight

Lets run from the cops, run from the morning light

Needles and pins, and pool room handstands, cigarette burns in your stockings

Girls room cocaine, blade runner eye shadow, text message romeo wears the print off the keypad.

BRIDGE- (2 X) Am, C, G, D, Em, C, G

Starlite Houdini and the girl with the Blythe doll eyes

Write love letters on beer coasters with the saddest of lies

VERSE 2- Em, D, C, G, D, C, D

Fake id brats, and bad karaoke, the bar rail drummers beat out of time.

That new love summer feeling is back and its burning the bar down

Finish your drink pay the tab lets get out of this town.

A song for all the girls that cant remember how they got home last night

Vs1 (G, A/G, B/G, C/G x 3)(G, A/G, B/G, C/G, B/G, A/G x 1)

You slumped over in the passenger seat when you rolled your window down

And the winter wind rushed inside and blew your hair around

The strands of peroxide blonde and manic-panic pink

Got stuck to you lip gloss and plucked like harp strings when youd blink

Br1 (A/G, C/G, G, F#/G, E/G x 2)(A/G, C/G, D, C/G x 1)

Now that the party is over and all the harsh lights are on

And theyre sweeping under your barstool, and all good time buddies are gone

Vodka-tonic from a Styrofoam cup, and I wonder is it ever enough

Refrain1 (G, A/G, C/G x 2)

Does it make it all alright?

Vs2 , (G,A/G, B/G, C/G x 3)(G, A/G, B/G, C/G, B/G, A/G x 1)

I layed there in the darkness and I listened to you breathe

I could hear my heartbeat in the pillow and I thought I should leave

I found my way to your front door with the light from my cellphones view screen

And wished that I could stay by your side and hold you close while you dream

Br2 (A/G, C/G, G, F#/G, E/G x 2)(A/G, C/G, D, C/G x 1)

In the final hours before daybreak you’ve got the no cash for a taxi blues

Stumbling towards the exit, in your amy winehouse shoes

In the parking lot, outside the bar, you’ve misplaced the keys to your car

Refrain 2 (G, A/G, C/G x 2)

Can I make it all alright?

Chorus (E/G, A/G) (D, C/G, G x 2)

And this is a song for all the girls that cant remember how they got home last night

How they got home last night

Vs3 (guitar solo) (G, A/G, B/G, C/G x 3)(G, A/G, B/G, C/G, B/G, A/G x 1)

Br3 (A/G, C/G, G, F#/G, E/G x 2)(A/G, C/G, D, C/G x 1)

Theres a sadness in your smile, as you straighten out your dress

Theres a secret in your eyes, that you could never confess

You ran so far to put it behind you, though you hide it will always find you

(A7)Keep searching for that one thing

(Am7)Keep looking for that something

Refrain 3 (G, A/G, C/G x 2)

That can make it all alright

Chorus 2 (E/ G, A/G) (D, C/G, G x 2) (D, C/G, D,E/G, A/G) (D, C/G, G)

And this is a song for all the girls who cant remember…how they got home last night

How they got home last night

How they got home

How they got home last night

END ON G

Art school girl

she layed her head on my shoulder in the back of the taxi

and woke up startled at every hard breaking red light.

she lifted her eyes and asked, "how long have i been sleeping?"

and i smiled and answered, how long have i been drifting alone through the night?

these days i feel like a wire walker.

with the wind picking up each day could be my last.

she pulls me close and it feels like my heart might explode.

and in those moments, i forget the mistakes that i made in my past.

come on art school girl, come on and take a chance on me.

i might be long in the tooth, i might be worse for the wear, but those theatre brats act to cool to care, and theyll never understand you. they could never love you like i do.

come on and meet me in the city

gypsey girls and guy liner boys try to vacate the scene
my thoughts return to what you said, i wonder what you mean

when you say that you believe in chance
and this is more than coincidence
well im unsure but it wouldnt take much too convince me.

the cops are in the street theyve come to shut the bar down
though im sure youve left i stop to take a last look around

and the blue lights shine on the poodles
like oceans that surge into street faults
and the rain keeps falling and the cops are getting uneasy

come on and meet me in the city
come on and meet me in the city
oh how your silly hats hide your eyes and lead me to misread you
come on and meet me in the city

im tired of pretending that i dont care but still i cant let it show
this feeling is urgent and reckless but still i cant let you know

i get toungue tied when youre near me
my pulse quickens when youre close

oh ana i never know what to say

we sat on your front steps and drank oe,
as the cars raced by we laughed silently
at the sound of scraped mufflers over the speed bump outside your apartment

and isnt it sad how time moves so fast
when you find a moment that you wish could last
and drags to a halt when youre drunk and missing your one and only love

lately i think that maybe im leading you on
i get nervous and confused when you ask "baby whats wrong?"

oh ana i never know what to say
oh ana i never know what to say
but sometimes when its quiet i feel like it might all be ok
but ana i never know

theres so much id like to tell her but the words would sound cheap
im weighted by the guilt and a promise i cant keep
and the road that lies ahead is paved with fear and uncertainty

my head is always spinning like a tilt a whirl
my hearts hungup on an east hillcrest girl
who doesnt love me who doesnt care if im alone

and the hope in her eyes is wasted on me and its a shame
that with all the beauty within i cant make myself feel the same

oh ana i never know what to say
oh ana i never know what to say
but sometimes when its quiet i feel like it might all be ok
but ana i never know

oh becca

g c em am

oh becca im never not guarded and i can never tell the whole truth

g c

oh i leave so much between the lines

g c

oh i leave so much between the lines

g c em am

and when the days go by so slowly how do the years go by so fast?

c d g d c

would you trade our future for what you lost in the past?

theme- (am, em, c, g, d, em) x 2

vs. 2.

c em am

i dont know why i always bother to txt her

c b/c am

to let her know when and where

c em am

perhaps the fool in me thinks that on a good night

c b/c am

i might could convince her to care

c d g f#

and from time to time shell dial my line

em am

when shes alone or feeling down

c b/c am

and i assure her that shes beauiful

d g c

and i guess thats why she keeps me around

chorus

g em am d am d c

and sweetheart you can call me any time, ill be up all night. oh ill be up all night.

outro chorus

g c em am

oh becca im never not guarded and i can never tell the whole truth

g c

oh i leave so much between the lines

Shades of her in you

I’m not afraid of your boyfriend, I’m not afraid of your boyfriend’s friends.

They can stand by the bar and stare with their hard looks, But they won’t change the way that I feel.

And isn’t it sad when you have everything that you ever wanted, but still there’s that feeling… like nothing will ever be alright.

So you hide it behind a pretty smile and you’re everything to everyone. And soon you become the façade and you hate the fact that you sleep in a bed of lies.

And baby don’t know worry. This feeling will pass and if want I can take back home in the morning.

I’m not the man that can save you I’m just a boy that’s seen that look before. In the sad worried of a girl that I once loved but I never really knew her at all.

And lately I wonder if maybe im doing everything wrong, but if it weren’t me itd be somebody else, pretty girls aren’t alone for long.

So while you test the water im drowning in a sea of shame and guilt, and im no closer to understanding how or why these things happen.

I’m not afraid of your boyfriend, I’m not afraid of your boyfriend’s friends.

The heart wants what the heart wants. And I’m helpless to change the way that I feel for you.

Because there are shades of her in you, there are shades of her in you. Oh there are shades of her in you.

Theres no girl that can run me out of town

Intro- (D, Em,G x 2)

Vs1- (D, Em, G, Bm, A x 4)

I looked out into the crowd and I forgot the words when I saw her face

The boys kept on playing but id lost my nerve and my fingers had lost their place

And the broken chords rang out like the dissonance, which had once filled my heart

The old me was a stronger man but not strong enough to keep all from fallng apart

Ch1- (G, D, Em, A7, Em, A7, G, D, Em, Bm, Em, G)

Theres no girl that can run me out of town

Theres no memory that I cant drown

Theres just the past that we often rewrite

And the lies we tell ourselves…

To help us sleep at night

Vs2- (D, Em, G, Bm, A x 4)

I remember those nights when we would just drive around, till first birds would start to sing

Now theres so many keys that don’t unlock any doors that I still cant take off my keyring

And they jingle in my pocket as to remind me, that theres no going back and theres no going home

And all of the questions that you left unanswered; I reckon theyre better left unknown

Ch2- (G, D, Em, A7, Em, A7, G, D, Em, Bm, Em, G)

Theme- Guitar lead (D, Em, G x 4)

Br- (Bm, A, G, D, Em, G, Em, G x 2)

Whenever she enters the room I feel a chill in the air

Whenever she enters I pretend that I just don’t care

Outro- (G, D, G, D, G, D)

Theme- (D, Em,G x 2)

"what if" girl.

i was bending the needle and searching the dial
and trying to keep my mind off her three dimple smile

in the bar light she looked like a thousand girls that id seen before
looking over her shoulder as if she was expecting someone to walk through the front door

and maybe its wrong to keep my heart so guarded and locked away
and maybe its wrong to bite my tongue when theres something i want to say

oh kelly id like to see you again
oh kelly id like to see you again

this longing will pass this feeling will subside

as her wall flower ways gave way to a two beer smile
her memory echoes in the valley, mile after mile

this wont be the last time this wont be the end
of my sick and sad obsession
with a what if girl, with a what if girl

Where did all the trashy fun magic go?

I remember the boom box back in the pool room. From gasoline alley, to time (the revelator) and lil wayne.

I wished those nights would go on unending. We cradled the still born dreams of life and love with sad denial.

Where did all the trashy fun magic go?

And the drinks and pills and the parties and people that cant recall their names

When I wish that I could go back, I know it could never be the same

And theres morning that I wake up and see ten years in just three.

And the man that ive become looks back in the mirror seems to stare right through me.

Where did all the trashy fun magic go?

oh sally, sometimes its still so hard to smile

i hope your reckless days are all behind you now
and restless nights have give way to peaceful sleep and sweet dreams
and your ring callus has faded and i never cross your mind
and someday you find someone, after youve picked up the pieces and moved

and what i want to say, what i think that i meant to say
is i was hoping i could make you happy again.

come on and feel alright, come on and feel alright right now

now my heart is as big as the sky and as twice as blue
and i know that nothing will ever feel this hole, not bad sex, or scripture or pills
and it comforts me that maybe well find something like love in the end
oh maybe well find something like love in the end

and what i want to say, what i think that i meant to say
is i was hoping i could make you happy again.

come on and feel alright, come on and feel alright right now

oh abbey, sometimes its still so hard to smile

when you were new to me

we layed by the shedding oaks, unaware that a storm approached

soaked to the bone by the time i got you home last sunday

i could tell that youd never been that far, with a boy in the back of a car

from the quiver in your lip and the salt on your lip tasted sweet

and like your picture i took with a polaroid and placed on my dashboard

someday too your face will fade from my memory

i awoke with a hang-over, and i thought but i wasnt sure

im breaking all the rules and youre missing your curfews everynight

the autumn leaves, turn to match your eyes

as shadows bleed into starless skies. i let the phone ring till i got your machine and then i hung up.

and like your picture i took with a polaroid and placed on my dashboard

someday too your face will fade from my memory

your cold shoulder sutbtity, is never as bad as it seems to be...

its alright i think it will be ok, is something wrong have your feelings changed...

when you were new to me.

the runaway diaries

dreams of summers, keep your winter nights warm until the chill in the air has passed

and all the rumours in whispered spite, spread from the back rows to the front of the class

its the season that makes you feel,

like youre drunk behind the wheel

like your first kiss was a lasting mistake

my fathers car, your mothers perfume, clacking teeth from rushed kisses

youll make a young bride, with a plain ring, a sad smile when youre called mrs.

its the season that makes you feel,

like youre choaking on the pill,

like the cure hurts, worse then the disease

forever is the road that lies ahead

the twilight calls you, your room spins around your bed.

mcdaniel girls

wake now from your sunbleached daydreams, sweet berries that ripen with your touch

tall waves that crash upon your rocks

winter coma, shake free from the snow bent trees, make way for the golden light parade

stand clear of the on-rush calvacade

the sun, the sky, the sea, my time elapse memory

i hold the still frames that were once lost

synaesthesia, her words burn pale yellow, they flicker then fade like fireflies

in her depression glass green eyes

december suntans, and lab born pheramoan, this eternal summer still remains

the seratonin rich in your veins

the sun, the sky, the sea, my time elapse memory

i hold the still frames that were once lost and walk the path buried by the tide

all her smiles are for show

far from her tree lined streets and keypad entries my city breathes a constant sigh

better the devil that you know

oh my vacant eyed dancer, my hollow heart lover, across the shores of foley beach

i walk the path buried by the tide.

Mill town girl

I parked on the side of the road, I thought the engine would soon explode, the bikes running hot and theres a storm in the distance and a feeling I just cant outrun.

She lives out by the state line, she calls me up and sees shes doing fine, but in her voice I hear the pain and the hurt that shes hiding and makes me feel helpless and sad.

Im in love, im in love with a milltown girl. shes always on my mind. Her heart is as pure as the tall pine winds, her smile is as bright as the sunrise,

that breaks through her bedroom shades.

When I get drunk or get into a fight, she takes me home and to bed for the night, oh I don’t know why shes sweet or why im so mean, I always try to do right by her.

Shes as pretty as a highway flower that rush by as fast as the hot minute hours when were together it seems like theres never enough time to make up for the time were apart.

Don’t worry baby don’t worry girl

Don’t worry baby yeah

Don’t worry baby ill be alright, if I could just crash here for the night. Oh if I could just crash here for the night.

love is quiet

its hard for me to understand how anyone else could ever understand this thing thats between us

as we lay in the bed of a rusted out pickup in her daddies backyard

its oh so very quiet you can almost hear the clouds brush the moon

like a piece of crushed velvet being pulled across a low watt light bulb

between the red lights

capo at 2nd fret

vs. g, d, c, d ((a, e, d, e))

between the red lights, where the cops go to park

where they sit in the shade, till the city goes dark

i was skipping class, on a cold day in july

and i dropped my coffee, when she walked by

bridge. d, g, em, c, ,g, d ((e, a, f#, d, a, e))

and i havent been the same since we met

it seems my lifes been one long regret

chorus. am, bm, c, em, d, c, ((b, c#, d, f#, e, d))

intrumental break. d, c, d, c, d, em, f#m, g ((e, d, e, d, f#, g#, a))

why cant we hold onto this feeling

it took some nerve, to call you that first time

your sisters laughed, as i held on the line

i counted each step, from the street to your front door

there were 29, but it felt like more

and i dont know why i keep it inside

the more i show the more i hide

why cant we hold onto this feeling

for a stitch in time

intro/chorus- 4 x g, c, bm, d, c, bm ((a, d, c#, e, d, c#))

lilt- c ((d))

verse- g, em, d, c ((a, f#, e, d))

shes a locked door, with many keys

a kiss and tell highlight, or a backseat tease

bridge- c, bm, d, c, bm, d, c, bm, am, g, d ((d, c#, e, d, c#, e, d, c#, b, a, e))

for a stitch in time, i thought id lost my mind

her virgin tears, stain her party dress

lately, im just getting by

her sunbleached hair her sky blue eyes

the threads of winter, are wearing thin

you can feel the summer, under your skin

and like the last shot, from her roman candle

that burns to hot, to hold the handle

for a stitch in time, i thought id lost my mind

her virgin tears, stain her party dress

sometimes you have to, sometimes you have to leave it behind

she feels so distant when im near, i only want to make it clear

theres just something, theres just something about her...

in weird dreams i walk with you

capo at 6th fret

theme- d ((g#))

verse- d, a, em, g ((g#, d#, a#m, c#))
in weird dreams i walk with you.
theres a place that we can run away to, theres a place where theyll never find us.
its somewhere off in the distance, in a world we put behind us.

pre-chorus- g, f#, em, a7, g ((c#, cm, a#m, d#7, c#))

if you cant leave today ill understand, but tonight please hold out your hand...

chorus- em, a7, d ((a#m, d#7, g#))

and in weird dreams ill walk with you.

theres a place where youre always smiling, theres a place where your garden blooms year round.
its somewhere in our memories, i go there sometimes when im down.

if you cant bring your heart to open the door, if you miss the man that i was before...
then in weird dreams ill walk with you.

bridge- a7, g, em, g, a7, g, em, g, bm, a ((d#7, c#, a#m, c#, d#7, c#, a#m, c#, e#m, d#))

oh darling, can you hear me?
im calling out to you.
oh darling, please listen to me.
im reaching out with the last strand of hope, and if you take hold it might all come try.

if the past ive imagined seems too far away, and in your new life youd prefer to stay...
then in weird dreams ill walk with you.
then in weird dreams ill walk with you.
in weird dreams i walk with you.

The pale tattooed girl

capo at 5th fret

theme- e, f#m, g#m, a, e,a,e

((a, bm, c#m, d, a, d, a))

verse- a, e, f#m, c#, b, a

((d, a, bm, f#, e, d))

Oh the pale tattooed girl, oh she is always on my mind

She’s quick to smile and her soft laugh sets me at ease

A veiled rose in her suzi quatro leather jeans,

and weird mismatched socks and gas station sunglasses beneath her louise brooks hair

Oh the pale tattooed girl, oh how she loves the mid summers fair

She bites her lip like there’s something that she wants to tell me

She flutters her lashes like she is nervous and then turns away,

I put my hand to her chest and it feels like a rabbit freed from a cage

bridge- e, f#m, g#m, a, b, a, c#m, a, e, a, e

((a, bm, c#m, d, e, d, f#m, d, a, f#m, d, a, d, a))

Theres a red/blue shift in the lights and the sounds as the ferris wheel picks her from off the ground and for a moment when the carriage has met its peak

She reaches towards the moon like a blind girl searching for emotion in lovers face

But she could never get high enough

She could never get high enough

Ohhhhh

chorus- f#m, e, a, e, a, e, b, a

((bm, a, d, a, d, a, e, d))

And black is the colour of my true loves heart

Of my true loves heart

Oh myyyy true loves heart

Oh the pale tattooed girl

bass guitar girl

capo at 2nd fret

verse- 2 x b, f#m, e, f#m, e ((c#, g#m, f#, g#m, f#))
its the last days of winter in a summer town
and theres still pieces of our hearts that will never be found
1 x b, a, e, a, e, f# ((c#m, b, f#, b, f#, g#m))
i could tell you the story that made the florist cry
but now that ive moved on i prefer the lie

chorus- a, e, f#m, e, g#m, f#m, a, e, f#m, e, g#m, f#m, a, e, a, e, f#m
((b, f#, g#, f#, a#m, g#m, b, f#, g#, f#, a#m, g#m, b, f#, b, f#,g#m))

theme- e, f#m, g#m
((f#, g#m, a#m))
and whos that girl on the bass guitar?
i ask as she looks through me
ive been so numb for so very long i welcome the pain
and fall in love too easy

and i cant help it if im quiet, i get so nervous when i speak

she acts unsettled as she stirrs her ginger and jack
and cuts her eyes as she crushes her soft pack

she looked so pretty and fair
as the stage lights passed through her hair
casting shadows between a techicolor scheme