The Alternate Routes

Desdemona Live Chords

INTRO
GCGC

C               
Desdemona, help yourself
                           G     Am    G
I hear you mourning at the dawn
         C
Desdemona, ask which side
                              G
Of all this lying are you on


                         C
Did you build yourself a runway?

Did you tell yourself tomorrow?
         G
Did you cry?
                       C
And are you dressed in hesitation
                                                  G
when you tell yourself that everything's alright?



Em                D              C
Cause I see a distance in your smile
                  G
And what your Mondays have become
                            C
could be the rest of your life
    Am                Bm
Desdemona, you're not dead yet
            C
No it's not wrong
             Am                           D
If you want everything in life under the sun
    G     C
Under the sun
                   G     Am     G      C
Under the sun



Desdemona, you're in love
                        G
Do not forget about yourself
   C
Desdemona, bring the people
                             G      A     Am     G
That you love inside your hell


                  C
Cause you are younger in the eyes of those who see you
                               G       Am       G
Please forget about the time
              C
And throw yourself out on these brave and empty branches
                            G    Am     G
In the winter waiting high. 



Em                   D               G   C     
'Cause everybody's out there killing time
Em                  D                G                 C
And I will be damned to let you stand here killing mine.
            Am                             D         G  C
Don't you know we're gonna change a whole world today
Am                      G             D     
We stop waiting on the world to change



INSTRUMENTAL  
C      G     A Am  G    Em C        G     Am    Em G         C
G    Am    G



   C
Desdemona, we are not so very different
            G    Am    G
Do you see?
             C
And at the moment braver still
                                       G
Than what our minds let us believe



           C
Even the walls that will surround you
                                G   C      G    Am    G
Somehow steady by your very own hands
         C
I don't know just how to change you
                                             G
All I know is how to tell you that you can




Em               D                C
Cause I'll never tell you how to live
Em              D       G
But you keep on telling me

That's just the way it is
    Am                          C
Desdemona more then anything I know
G     A        Am          G        Am         D
Never tell yourself that's just the way it goes
                 C
I know it goes
                    G       Am     G      C
But what do I know
G     Am     G     C
G    A Am     G