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The Lawrence Arms
Brickwall Views
Apathy And Exhaustion
2002
Submitted by: [email protected]

Key: E

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
E -    022100
B -    x24442
C#m -  x46654
A -    x02220
B/Eb - x698xx


Intro: A--


Verse 1:
E             B/Eb     A
  don't break too many hearts
E            B/Eb     A
  don't take too many arrows
            C#m
in the chest.  cry comfortably
E        B
  let us all know what you're
C#m     E           B/Eb
thinking is there a gesture
        A
i could use to clearly
  E               B/Eb
express i'm at an utter
         A     C#m
loss for words?   is there
  B                  A
a part of you that's torn?
                   E
that's larger than life?
          B
that will hold on for
C#m
one more night?


Refrain 1:
A
  i've got a speech
   B   A
to make followed
           B   A
by a big parade 


Chorus:
E          A
  northside closed
    C#m       B
eyes   all charades 
         A
go on forever
E           A
  hands tied with

fool's pride
C#m     B
   in a slowly
        A
fleeing summer


Verse 2:
E
  just throw your
B/Eb
hands up at the
 A E       B/Eb
sky no use trying
     A    C#m
to explain   the
the clouds are
B
mirrors i'm
   A
disguised
E         B/Eb
  i'm not all
          C#m
that entertaining
E     B/Eb
  the city looks
    A   E
the same until you
B/Eb
notice smaller
A      C#m
changes   it still
B               A
knows us all by name
E
  it holds us
B
close to its heart
C#m
   it holds us
B
close to its heart


Refrain 2:
A
  all my hopes
       B
are unaligned
A
  this diagnosis
   B      A
is self-designed


(Repeat Chorus)


Bridge:
E       B
  empty rooms don't have
C#m         A
pictures to talk to
E           B
  brickwall views demand
C#m        A
uninspired afternoons
E              B
  the days are flooding
     A     E
into months the nights
     B           C#m
are staring into centuries


Verse 3:
A      B
  i've got some
      E
older pictures
A           B
  of people i
         E
see once every
       C#m
couple years
A
  intrigued 
   B
or unamazed
E
  "you were so much
C#m
different back
   A          A
in those days"


Verse 4:
E               B
  and now this smile has
  C#m         E
a bitter curve and now
      B            A
these eyes are unenchanted
E            B        C#m
  and all we see is a faded
         A
image of what we used to
E      B        A
be how can we relate


Verse 5:
E         B
  when we don't know
  C#m
a thing about each
A        E
other anymore?
        B
when we don't know
  C#m
a thing about each
A        E
other anymore?
        B
when we don't know
  C#m
a thing about each
A        E
other anymore?
        B
when we don't know
     C#m   A  E   B/Eb C#m A
each other anymore?


E B/Eb C#m A


Outro:
E            B/Eb
  is there a gesture
        C#m
I could use to
B         A
clearly express
          B
i'm at an utter
         E(hold)
loss for words

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