Tom: E
Introdução: E D/E E D/E
E
She got a sixer from the store down the street
A
Stayed up watching basketball replays
E
There's a reason that she can't go to sleep
A
And it's got nothing to do with LeBron James
C#m B A
Has to do with a chemical reaction
C#m B A
Stimulated synapses, the snapping and the crackling
E B C#m A
The doctor gave her something to focus her attention
E B C#m A
She's got a six month supply in the cupboard in the kitchen
B
Upstairs, she hears footsteps
A
And she has an idea
E D/E
He's home late from some dinner and some drinks
A
Another Friday with the suits in the steakhouse
E D/E
Asset management's as thrilling as you'd think
A
But they pay him pretty well
E
Now he's renting out the penthouse
C#m B A
He hasn't met the neighbors, he's new to the building
C#m B A
So he's a little bit surprised when he notices the knocking
E B C#m A
When he opens up the door, it's the girl that lives beneath him
E B C#m A
She said, "I know it's pretty late and I hope that you weren't sleeping"
B
She says she thought she heard footsteps
A
And she had an idea
E B
He'd seen her at the mailbox, made a little small talk
A
Now she's here in his entrance
E B
Shaking up the bottle like she's playing the maracas
A
Says she's high and she's restless
E B
He puts something on the stereo, it sounds like it's Sinatra
D A
She thinks that seems a bit square
E B A
But there's things you overlook when you're getting with the guy upstairs
B E/G#
She opens up the bottle and starts pouring out the pills
A
Crush it on the counter being careful not to spill
B E/G#
He starts mixing drinks, measuring the gin
A
Getting down the glassware, muddling the mint
B E/G#
They talk about their work and where they went to school
A
How the city's kind of changed, how it used to be so cool
B E/G# A
It's hard to make friends when your job is so demanding
N.C.
C#m B
Sunrise into sundown
A
Sending out for takeout
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C#m B
Finally tries to kiss her and she says that it's not like that
A
Now he wished he wouldn't have done that
E
Cause everything is awkward
B
And the conversation slows
E
She cleans off the countertop
A B
And says that she should probably go
E B
She'd seen him at the mailbox flipping through the mail drop
E
She wasn't sure how to start it
E B
Spent the lost weekend trying to find a small connection
E
At least, she got to see his apartment
E B
A Nagel poster in the silver frame
D/E A
She thought that seemed kind of lame
E B D
She wakes up late for work with the sniffles and the spiraling shame
E B
Later in the fall, when she sees him in the hallway
A
She makes a point to be friendly
E B
He's standing with some baby that he's calling his fiancé e
A
Her name is either Kelly or Katie
E
She's glad they found each other
B
The wedding's next September
D A
She's planning her own party tonight
E B A
Crushing up pills at home, watching basketball highlights
B
She thinks she hears footsteps
A
But now they're not really there