Kyla Tilley
Little Chords
(original key capo 3) D G daylight; sun hits, the car heats up so hot I can barely move D G just me and the dog sleepin' in the backseat on the side of the road A Bm G D this dog has seen more of this world than most people I can name A Bm G D I got her down in texas so the heat's only botherin' me A G Bm roll down the windows, air out the car some before drivin' on A G Bm F# G D breakfast: soda crackers and water, check to see if... I'm runnin' low on gasoline F# Bm G D don't ask me where I'm from, that's a question too hard for me to answer F# Bm G D 'cause I've been travellin' all my life and I don't recall just where I began A G Bm I got nothin' but a few mixed tapes, an old typewriter, and a couple books A G Bm some worn and faded photographs of the times I now deem to have been better D C G an old-fasioned suitcase holding lingerie D G got the car, I got the dog, too; where's my house full of youngsters D G where's that man still telling me he loves me while his hairline's receding and his belly is growing A Bm G D once I was a little girl, run into my mother's arms; A Bm G D she told me one day I'd find love and be holding children of my own A G Bm to think that I believed her then ain' t the hard part, nuh uh A G Bm F# G D the hardest part is I'm still wishing that she was right F# Bm G D a good five years has past since I had someone happy just to hold me F# Bm G D and I was sober then, I had something better to depend on A G G D some people, they talk a lot and fill you up full of wondrous notions A G G D and I'm sick of people who just talk, so if you say it, please mean it A G Bm and I'm dancing in a grimy bar for the clientele of a toothless man A G Bm stealing change just to stay alive and drinking because I need to D C G D one by one I've managed to push away every friend I've made F# Bm G D I will sing a bitter song when I sit to write my memoirs F# Bm G D with a bottle of something hard to wash down my prescription A G Bm and when I look back on it, all my stories are pretty hateful A G Bm F# G D and I got a few happy ones too, but all they do... is make me cry D G D midnight; pretty cold in the backseat; me and the dog in a gas station parking lot