One Crowded Hour Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Fade in]
[G][Am][Bm][C][D]

[Verse 1]
Now should you ex[G]pect to see
something that [Am]you hadn't seen
In some[Bm]body you'd known
since [C]you were sixteen
If [D]love is a [Em]bolt from the blue
Then [C]what is that bolt but a [G]glorified screw
That [C]doesn't hold nothing to[D]gether?

[Verse 2]
Far from these [G]nonsense bars
and [Am]their nowhere music
It's [Bm]making me sick
and I [C]know it's making you sick
[D]There's nothing there; it's [Em]like eating air
It's [C]like drinking gin with [G]nothing else in
[C]That doesn't hold me to[D]gether

[Chorus 1]
But for [G]one crowded [Am]hour
you were the [Bm]only one in the [C]room
And [D]I sailed around
all those [Em]bumps in the night
to [C]your beacon in the [G]gloom
I [B]thought I had found
my [C]golden September
in the [G]middle of that purple [Em]June
But [G]one crowded [Am]hour
would [C]lead to my [D]wreck and [G]ruin

[Verse 3]
Now I know you like [G]your boys
to take their [Am]medicine
From the [Bm]bowl with a silver [C]spoon
Who run a[D]way with the dish
and [Em]scale the fish
By [C]the silvery light of the [G]moon
Who were [B]taught from the womb
to [C]believe to the tune
In as [G]far as their bleeding eyes [Em]see
It's a [G]pleasure pen, meant for them,
[Am]built for and rent for them
[C]Not for the [D]likes of me
[G]Not for the lik[C]es of you and me[D]

[Chorus 2]
And for [G]one crowded [Am]hour,
you were the [Bm]only one in the [C]room
And [D]I sailed around
all those [Em]bumps in the night
to [C]your beacon in the [G]gloom
I [B]thought I had found
my [C]golden September
in the [G]middle of that purple [Em]June
But [G]one crowded [Am]hour
would [C]lead to my [D]wreck and [G]ruin

[Bridge 1]
Oh but the [D]green-eyed harpy
of the [Bm]song [Am]land[G]
She [D]takes into hers [Bm]my h[Am]and[G]
She [Em]says, "Boy I know you're [A]ly ing
[Bm]Oh but then,[Am] so am I,"[D]

[Solo 1]
And to that I said "Oh well"
[G][Am][Bm][C]
[D][Em][C][G]
[B][C][G][Em]
[G][Am][C][D]

[Verse 4]
They [G]put me in a cage full of [Am]lions
I learned to speak [Bm]lion
In fact I [C]know
the language [D]well I picked it [Em]up
while I was [C]versing myself in the [G]language
They speak in [Am]hell
That night, the [Bm]silence gave birth to a [C]baby
They [D]took it away to her [Em]silent dismay
And [C]they raised it to be a [G]la dy
Now she [C]can't keep her mouth [D]shut

[Chorus 3]
And for [G]one crowded [Am]hour
you were the [Bm]only one in the [C]room
And [D]I sailed around
all those [Em]bumps in the night
to [C]your beacon in the [G]gloom
I [B]thought I had found
my [C]golden September
in the [G]middle of that purple [Em]June
But [G]one crowded [Am]hour
would [C]lead to my [D]wreck and [G]ruin

[Chorus 4]
Yes, that [G]one crowded [Am]hour
you were the [Bm]only one in [C]the room
Well I [D]played a few songs
for those [Em]bumps in the night
In [C]fact I played this very [G]tune
You said, [B]"What is this
six-stringed [C]instrument
[G]but an adolescent [Em]loom?"
And [G]one crowded [Am]hour
would [C]lead to my [D]wreck and [G]ruin

[Outro 1]
Yes, and [G]one crowded [Am]hour
would [C]lead to my [D]wreck and [G]ruin
Oh, that [G]one crowded [Am]hour
would [C]lead to my [D]wreck and [G]ruin