She Stayed as Steam Chords & Lyrics by Kevin Devine
She Stayed as Steam
guitar chords lyrics
This song is in standard tuning in the demo, and tuned a half step down when
played live. (pretty accurate, definitely not perfect)
(All the chords in this section are palm muted power chords)
F C
all that music in your mouth
G Am
rivers rushing at your teeth
Bb F
cresting waves through wading valleys
Bb F
flooded language tributaries
Bb F C/G
connect and cover over me
F C
tensing jaw & cork screw eyelids
G Am
as if you couldn't bare to see
Bb F
all that water pouring from you
Bb F
collecting clouds inside the ballroom
Bb F C/G Bb
over people who don't know you
but darling i do
On 'do', begin this riff:
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(Return to palm-muted power chords)
F C
you trance yourself back towards the city
G Am
blood not moving to your feet
Bb F
your foot falls tentative and muffled
Bb F
automatic listless shuffle
Bb F C/G
your sidewalk scatter brain, cry uncle
F C
you paint yourself back in your corner
G Am
and look for her on your t.v.
Bb F
it's friday night and i am hungry
Bb F
for a hand, a mouth, a body
Bb F C/G Bb
a love i wouldn't have to carry
(For the next section, either play the riff or the chords below)
..Mouth ..now ..canal ..town
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F/Bb
a stitch in my mouth
Dm
and i'm untying now
F/Bb
a concrete canal
Dm G A
in a bomb border town
(return to palm muted power chords again)
Bb Am
an echo in the rafters
Dm G
reminding you there was a sound
(D)|-7-----5---3-| Dm
but you killed her in waves
C F C
she stayed a steam to hiss at you now
(Stop palm muting here)
G Gadd9 Am Bb F Am Bb F Am Bb F C/G C7
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Bb F
he killed her in waves
Am Dm
but that's not today
(back to palm muting again)
Dm
so you breathe through your mouth
Bb
try to calm yourself down
F
and keep what you found
A
and shout it out loud
(And stop palm muting again)
Dm
she can hover and hurt
Bb
or dissolve to dirt
F A
some prayer in you mouth
G
and she might stay a steam
C
so get to the beams
F A
let you figure her out
G, Dm, Bb, F, Bb, F, Bb, C/G, C7, F
