Death Cab For Cutie - Gold rush

^E [Gold rush] Digging for gold in my neighborhood ^D/E [Gold rush] Where all the old buildings stood ^A/E [Gold rush] And they keep digging it down and down ^E [Gold rush] So that the cars can live underground ^E [Gold rush] The swinging of a wrecking ball ^D/E [Gold rush] Through these lath and plaster walls ^A/E [Gold rush] Is letting all the shadows free ^E [Gold rush] The ones I wish still followed me

^E/G#Change [followed me, followed m^Ae] Please don't ch^Eange ^E/G#Stay [followed me, followed m^Ae] Stay the s^Eame

^E [Gold rush] I remember a winter's night ^D/E [Gold rush] We kissed beneath the street lamp light ^A/E [Gold rush] Outside a bar near the record store ^E [Gold rush] That have been condos for a year and more ^E [Gold rush] Now that our haunts have taken flight ^D/E [Gold rush] And been replaced with construction sites ^A/E [Gold rush] Oh, how I feel like a stranger here ^E [Gold rush] Searching for something that's disappeared ^E [Gold rush] Digging for gold in my neighborhood ^D/E [Gold rush] For what they say is the greater good ^A/E [Gold rush] But all I see is a long goodbye ^E [Gold rush] A requiem for a skyline ^E [Gold rush] It seems I never stopped losing you ^D/E [Gold rush] Because every dive becomes something new ^A/E [Gold rush] And all our ghosts get swept away ^E [Gold rush] It didn't use to be this way

C^E/G#hange [be this way, be this w^Aay] Please don't ch^Eange ^E/G#Stay [be this way, be this w^Aay] Stay the s^Eame C^E/G#ranes [be this way, be this w^Aay] Devour the l^Eight St^E/G#range [be this way, be this w^Aay] Appet^Eite

^Esus4 And I've ascribed these monuments ^E A false sense of permanence ^Esus4 I've placed faith in geography ^E To hold you in my memory ^Esus4 [Gold rush] I'm sifting through these wreckage piles ^E [Gold rush] Through the rubble of bricks and wires ^Bsus4 [Gold rush] Looking for something I'll never find ^Bsus4 [Gold rush] Looking for something I'll never find

^E [Gold rush] Digging for gold in my neighborhood ^D/E [Gold rush] Where all the old buildings stood ^A/E [Gold rush] And they keep digging it down and down ^E [Gold rush] So that the cars can live underground ^E [Gold rush] It seems I never stopped losing you ^D/E [Gold rush] Because every dive becomes something new ^A/E [Gold rush] And all our ghosts get swept away ^E [Gold rush] It didn't use to be this way

Ch^Eange [Gold rush] [It didn't use to be this way] ^D/E [Gold rush] [It didn't...] Please don't c^A/Ehange [...use to be this way]

^E [Gold rush] [It didn't use to be this way] St^Eay [Gold rush] [It didn't use to be this way] ^D/E [Gold rush] [It didn't...] Stay the s^A/Eame [...use to be this way]

^E [Gold rush] [It didn't use to be this way] Ch^Eange [Gold rush] ^D/E [Gold rush] Please don't ch^A/Eange

^E [Gold rush] [It didn't use to be this way] St^Eay [Gold rush] ^D/E [Gold rush] Stay the s^A/Eame