VERSE 1:
[C] Step out the front door like a [D] ghost
Into the fog where no one [EM7] notices
The contrast of [G] white on white
And in in be [C] tween the moon and you
Ang [D] els get a better view
Of the [EM7] crumbling difference between [G] wrong and right
I walk [C] in the air between the rain
[D] Through myself and back again
[EM7] Where, I don't know [G]
[C] Maria says she's dying
Through the door I [D] hear her crying
Why, I [EM7] don't know [G]

CHORUS:
Round here [C] we al [D] ways stand up straight [EM] [G]
Round here [C] some [D] thing radiates [EM] [G]

VERSE 2:
[C] Maria came from nashville with a [D] suitcase in her hand
She said she'd [EM7] like to meet a boy who looks like [G] elvis
She walks along the edge where the [D] ocean meets the land
Just like she's [EM7] walking on a wire in the circus [G]
She [C] parks her car outside of my house
[D] Takes her clothes off
[EM7] She say's she's close to understanding [G] Jesus
She knows she's more than just a little mis [D] understood
She has trouble acting normal when shes nervous

CHORUS:
Round [C] here we're [D] carving out our [EM] names [G]
Round [C] here we all [D] look the [EM] same [G]
Round here [C] we talk just like lions [D]
But we [EM] sacarifice like lambs [G]
Round here [C] she's slipp [D] ing through my [EM] hands

BREAK: A D G A G

BRIDGE:
[A] Slee [AM7] ping children [D7] better [A] run like the wi [A] nd [G] [A]
[AM7] Out of the [D7] lightning dream [A] [G] [A]
Ma [AM7] ma's little baby [D7] better [A] get herself [A] in [G] [A]
[C] Out of the [D] lightning
She [C] says, It's [D] only in my [EM7] head [G]
She [C] says, shh, I know it's [D] only in my [EM7] head [G]

VERSE 3:
But the [C] girl on the street by the parking lot
Says: [D] "Man, you should try to Take a shot
[EM7] Can't you see my walls are crumbling [G]
Then she [C] looks up at the building
Say's she's [D] thinking of jumping
She says she's ti [EM7] red of life
She must be ti [G] red of something

CHORUS:
Round here [C] she's [D] always on my [EM] mind [G]
Round here [C] I [D] got lots of [EM] time [G]
Round here [C] we're never sent to bed early [D]
Man, [EM] nobody makes us wait [G]
Round here [C] we stay up [D] very, [EM] very, very, very [G] late

ENDING:
I can't see no [C] thin, nothin [D]
Around [EM] here
[G] You catch me if I'm [C] falling
You catch me if I'm [D] falling
Will you catch me cause I'm [EM] falling down on you
[G] I said I'm [C] under the gun [D]
Around [EM7] here [G]
Oh, man I said I'm [C] under the gun [D]
Around [EM7] here
[G] And I can't see nothin' [C]
Nothin' [D]
Round here [EM]