Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Matches Chords
Our Hearts Burn Like Damp Matches by The Leisure Society is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, G, D and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
A G D G
D A D
Verso 1:
G A G
Take a walk through scattered trees
A G
To the place where no one dreams
A D G
Serve my sentence and be done
A G
All human life here is scarred
A G
Posture slipped and ill-attired
A D
We should all be redesigned
Ponte:
Bm D G A D
Hollow words sit silent in my mouth
Bm D G A D
Reasoned voices idle on the ground
A G D
Our hears burn like damp matches
G D A D
Turn then attack us, burst and then break
A G D
Embers plucked from the ashes
G D A D G
Glow to attract us, lure us away
Verso 2:
A G
Every day arrives too late
A G
Every morning seems the same
A D G
Stale regrets and dull routine
A G
Know at last your weathered soul
A G
Know your tethers clung with soil
A D
And the reasons for it all
Outro
Bm D G A D
Trust in me and I will trust in you
Bm D G A D
Hold me close and I will hold you too
Outro
A D G D
D A D