Mortal City Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
She [Am]nev er should have rented this
apartment in the Mortal City
The cold comes though [G]every
[Am]crack she puts her hand up to
[Bb]The radiator's broken,
so she has to use electric heat.
[Am]And tonigh[G]t was the first

[Verse 2]
date with the brother
[Am]of the guy she worked next to
He lived a couple streets away
He listened, he had [C]things to say
[Bb]She asked him up for dinner
sometime
Sometime was tonight
[Am]

[Verse 3]
The radio gave updates on the ice storm
while she made the dinner
They said, from all the talk,
you shouldn't drive or even walk
[F]And this just in,
[C]we're asking eve[G]ryone to turn off[Am] their powe[G]r
They [F]need it at the hospit[Dm]al.[G]

[Verse 4]
[Am]She ran around pulling plugs,
then she called him up
Maybe now they shouldn't meet,
he said that he would brave [F]the streets
She met him at the door with
[C]a blanket and [G]a candle
[Am]Saying, I heard it on the radio,
[C]I had[F] to turn my pow[Dm]er off.
[Gsus4][G]

[Verse 5]
[Am]He said you're not the only one,
the streets were dark tonight,
It was like another century
With dim lamps and candles lighting [Bb]up the icy trees
and the clouds and a covered [Am]moon.

[Verse 6]
She said what kind [Am]of people
make a city
Where you can't see the sky and
you can't feel the ground?

[Verse 7]
I tell [Am]you something,
I have this feeling that this city's dying
He said, it's not dying it's
the people who are dying
She said, [Bb]yes, yes I think the people
are dying and nobody [Am]cares.

[Verse 8]
[Am]
We had all this technology our dreams
were bold and vague
[F]And then one city [C]got bad [G]planners,
[Am]one city[G] got t[F]he plague.
[Dm][G][Am]

[Verse 9]
He asked why did you move here? She said,
for the job
For the job and I've [F]been so lonely here,
[C]so lon[G]ely
There's [Am]no one I can talk to[G],
you know I [F]don't even know your [Dm]brother.
[G]

[Verse 10]
[Am]He smiled and said,
sometimes at night I walk out by the river
The city's one big town,
the water turns it upside down
[F]People found this city because
they [C]love other [G]people
They [Am]want their secretaries,
[G]the[F]y want their power lunches.
[Dm][G]

[Verse 11]
[Am]And think about tonight,
I heard the same newscast you did
I unplugged everything,
I looked out the window
And I [F]think the city heard,
[C]I watched as one by [G]one the lights w[Am]ent off
So [G]they could give [F]their power
to the hospit[Dm]al
[G]

[Verse 12]
[Am]They ate in silence while
she thought this over,
They sat together in a dark
room in the Mortal City
Shift[Bb]ing in their blankets so they wouldn't
get spaghetti on them.
[Am]

[Verse 13]
Then came the awkward moment after dinner,
what to do,
The ice was still falling,
the streets were still dangerous
The cab[Bb]s were not running and

[Verse 14]
this neighborhood was not the greatest.
[Am]They both looked at the space
where a couch would've been
She felt her stomach sink,

[Verse 15]
she felt like she could hardly think
[Am]
She said, I never should have rented this
apartment in the Mortal City
The cold comes through
eve crack I put my hand up to
[C]The rad[Bb]iator doesn't work,
I have to use electric [Am]heat.

[Verse 16]
That settled it, they [Am]would both
sleep in her bed
It was a matter of survival.

[Verse 17]
She brought out [Am]t- shirts,
sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks, hats
If there was ever any thought of what would
happen in that bed tonight
There was no question now
They could barely move
[C]They were wra[Bb]pped up like ornaments waiting
for another season.
[Am][Dm][Am]

[Verse 18]
They lay in bed,
they listened to the pelting ice
He said my brother's not a bad guy,
he's just quiet
I wished you liked this city

[Verse 19]
She said, maybe I do.
[Am]
I think I have a special kind
of hearing tonight
I hear the neighbors upstairs
I hear my heart beat[C]ing[F]
I hear one [C]thousand [G]hearts [Am]beating
[G]at the hos[F]pital[Dm][Gsus4][G]
And [Am]one thousand hearts by
their [Bb]bedsides waiting
Say[Am]ing that's my love
in [Bb]the white gown,

[Verse 20]
[Am]We are not lost in the Mortal City

[Outro 1]
We are not lost in the Mortal City
[Am][C]