Chords
Miss Bottom Of The Hill

Key: D

Introduction: D    G    D    Bm    G    A    

                        D  
So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?
                                G  
The sun is shinin' and your lovers always lose you in the dark
                                                                                                                        Bm  
And they were all chosen to remember how the sparrows hit the window
                          G                                                                                    A  
That you closed to keep the cat out in the yard
                                     D  
And like your body bein' dragged behind the moon
You bring a memory of your mother like the money in your shoe
                                                                                                Bm  
And how her penetratin' wisdom, her bulletproof religion
                  G                                                                                 A  
Always rip you like a wool off of the loom
             D  
You floated farther than you ever meant to go
And only now see you are naked when the wind began to blow
          Bm  
No trespass unforgiven
                  G                                                                      A  
Just a river with no pity for your boat
                                     G                                                                                    A  
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
             D                                                                                 Bm  
The dogs were loose and lyin' on the street
                                                G  
You've learned to blend into the choir
                  A  
How to hold your hand in fire
             D                         A                                                 Bm  
And what to say instead of what you mean
                                                  G                                                                              A  
But the trouble it saves for just how hard it can be
                                D  
You met the women gluin' jewels onto a crown
                                     G  
You know men hidin' in the city and their way of bein' found
                                  D  
And you got nothin' on your shoulders
                                     Bm  
Still there's nothin' too much colder
                     G                                                                                 A  
Than a rubble of a house that's fallin' down
                     D  
Like a baby cryin 'til it fal ls asleep
                                     G  
The autumn's over by the time you count the color of the leaves
                                          G  
You're paintin' buzzards on the ceilin'
                        Bm  
Fallin' faithless at the healin'
                          G                                                                                            A  
With your friends around you wailin on their knees
                        G                                                                                                              A  
And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
          D                                            A                                    Bm  
The fog had swallowed everything but us
                                                G  
You've learned to balance on the cable
                        A  
Drink us all under the table
             D                         A                                            Bm  
And who to try instead of who you trust
                                                     G                                                                              A  
With a hand on your heart that threw you under the bus
                     D  
So Miss Bottom of the Hill, what do you want?
                             G  
The sun is shinin' and you cleaned your pretty pistol of a heart
             D  
But when you talk about tomorrow
                Bm  
When to beg and when to borrow
                             G                                                                                      A  
Is how to hit the ground before you hear the shot
                             D  
And like a fish too deep and driftin' in the sea
                                G  
You've grown accustomed to the blindness lookin' up and anxiously
                                     D                                                                                                 Bm  
But there's a stone inside your pocket while you're plowin' through the market
                        G                                                                                      A  
But you know even the time it takes ain't free
             G                                                                                                            A  
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
          D                                            A                                    Bm  
The stars were barely hangin' in the sky
                                                  G  
You've learned to eat when you're not hungry
                     A  
How to laugh when nothin's funny
             D                            A                                            Bm  
And what to get instead of gettin' by
                                        G                                                                         A  
But oh, how it changes with the passin' of time
                                  D  
You heard so many voices hidden in the wind
                                G  
See all the children of the world and how its fingers reach for them
                                  D  
Two branches tired of their bendin'
                        Bm  
I don't see our story endin'
                          G                                                            A  
Quite as clean as it was easy to begin
                  D  
Like a hole that let the fox under the fence
                                        G  
You've got no solace and no sanctuary you can recommend
                                D  
Beggin' for mercy at the bedside
                     Bm  
We got frozen in the headlights
                     G                                                                            A  
But our kind of mercy never made much sense
                             G                                                                         A  
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
             D                      A                                                 Bm  
But both were disappearin' in the waves
                                                G  
You've learned to lead the one you follow
                     A  
How to spit out what you swallow
          D                                 A                                    Bm  
And when to hand instead of give away
                                          G                                                                      Fm            A  
That secret of ours is one I'll take to the grave
                     E  
So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?
                                A  
The sun is shinin' and I think you want me more often than not
                                     E  
But like your father in the garden
                        C#m  
I won't finish what I started
                        A                                                                 B  
'Til you bill me for the flowers I forgot
                             E  
And like a curse too old for anyone to care
                                A  
You said to meet you on the mountain cause you never make it there
                                          E  
And sucked your thumb along the highway
                        C#m  
Proudly promisin' that one day
          A                                                                                      B  
I'd miss the way we tumbled down the stairs
                                                A                                                                                    B  
And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
          E                                      C#m  
The car was gently glidin' off the road
                                                A  
You've learned to rise above your body
                     B  
How to never say you're sorry
          E                                                                         C#m  
And where to go instead of going home
                                                          A                                                                                         B                                      E  
With th e light by the bed and all the clothes you've outgrown
A    E    C#mA  BE