Emmy The Great - Two Steps Forward (Reviewed and now correct 22/03/10) Note: Chord definitions at bottom Intro: (Optional, sometimes she just starts with C) F G C Am C/B C C/B F G C C G In the middle of September we entertained the thought Am F of falling into rabbit holes and never coming out F* C in the garden of a girl who's mum is friends with Elton John, so she kept G telling us but still C we slipped a year or so behind ourselves G the time's already gone, Am F when people were just people not the jobs that they perform F* C our songs were just a thing we did with melody's and chords G now you're available in all good record stores. Dm but G C C/B Am i knew you best back when love was just a feeling that ran out between my F G legs onto the, back of my dress C onto the clothes that i was wearing C G oh when i was a child i was expected to believe Am F in something up above that no one touches or can see F* C but now they tell me that unless you're looking out of magazines well then G C you don't exist but i knew that that you were real before i read it G Am F in an interview today before i used you as a surface - did a line across your face F* C in the toilet of a girl who's sitting outside dropping names like they were G carpet bombs, she knows everyone Dm G C C/B Am but, i knew you first back when love was underneath you with my fingers in the dirt, F G you said "i'll stop if it hurts" Am you said "i'll stop it if it's scary," F G you said "you know that i can stop this any time, C if you think that it is tearing" Am F and i think of you when the leaves are brown, C G i think of leaves that i have felt against my body on the ground Am F i think of places where we could go to now until they find us 'til they catch G us, 'til they wake us and F G we drown until I know where i am C C/B Am F i'm in a garden of remembering your fingers in my hand, were like a book made G C of sand C and its the middle of September. G F your image starts to fade into the one that they have printed on the 27th page F* C G don't like to read these things you know i do it anyway i have no choice have no choice i say C G Am and i go out into the garden the birds begin to sing i am troubled by the F thought of all the daylight they will bring F* C G i think that i will let somebody take me home again Dm Cause if i.. G knew you at all C C/B Am that my love was underneath you making puddles on the floor C G and that i sleep to the thought of C C/B Am Some garden in september where I've never been before C G It's slipping, out of the door F G C Am C/B C C/B two people walking two steps forward always to the lives they've chosen F G C clicks and hums and sirens and the sun F G C Am C/B C C/B of two people walking two steps forward always to the lives they've chosen, F G C clicks and hums and sirens and the sun F G C E of two people walking two steps forward always to the lives we've chosen F G C clicks and hums and silence and the sun C/B = e|---0---| B|---1---| G|---0---| D|---0---| A|---2---| E|---x---| F* = e|---1---| B|---1---| G|---0---| D|---3---| A|---3---| E|---x---| (She plays F as *below* so you just lift your middle finger off for F*) e|---1---| B|---1---| G|---2---| D|---3---| A|---3---| E|---x---|