The tortured poets department  (2024)     (video)

 

   C

1.    You left your typewriter at my apartment,

F

    straight from the tortured poets department.

C                                               F

    I think some things I never say,

 

    "Like who uses typewriters anyway ?"

           - Am                                        G

    But         you're in self-sabotage mode

                                                     C

    throwing spikes down on the road,

                                       F

    but I've seen this episode and still love the show.

        Am              G

    Who else decodes you ?

 

            C                                    F

And who's gonna hold you like me ?

            C                                         F

And who's gonna know you if not me ?

                                                 -  Am

I laughed in your face and said,        "You're not Dylan Thomas,

G

    I'm not Patti Smith,

C                                       F

    this ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we'rе modern idiots".

           Am              G                  C

And who's gonna hold you like me ?

             F                         C               F

No, nobody, no-fucking-body, nobody.

 

   C

2.    You smokеd, then ate seven bars of chocolate,

F

    we declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist.

C                                                     F

    I scratch your head, you fall asleep,

 

    like a tattooed golden retriever.

Am                                     G                                          C

    But you awaken with dread pounding nails in your head,

                                           F

    but I've read this one where you come undone,

         Am               G

    I chose this cyclone with you.      +  CHORUS

 

       C

3. Sometimes I wonder if you're gonna screw this up with me,

F

    but you told Lucy you'd kill yourself if I ever leave.

C

    And I had said that to Jack about you so I felt seen,

F

    everyone we know understands why it's meant to be.

C                                 F

    Because we're crazy !

                     - C                                    F

    So tell me       who else is gonna know me ?

          Am                                             G    

    At dinner you take my ring off my middle finger

                                C                        F

    and put it on the one people put wedding rings on.

                             Am                          G

    And that's the closest I've come to my heart exploding.

 

            C                                 - F

And who's gonna hold you ?        It’s me !

            C                                  - F

And who's gonna know you ?        It’s me !

Am                                                   - G

      "And you're not Dylan Thomas,       I'm not Patti Smith,

C                                         F

    this ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we'rе modern idiots".

           Am              G      C

And who's gonna hold you ?               +  C - F  - C - F

 

  Am                      G

+     You left your typewriter at my apartment

C                               F

     straight from the tortured poets department.

        Am             G

    Who else decodes you ?

 

+  C - F  - C - F ...

 

    (Taylor Swift)