Death Cab for Cutie - Rand McNally: chords

Dm                 F
Rand McNally atlas, cheap coffee stain
     A#                              F
Now, I wouldn't know how to use one with
my life at stake
        Dm                          F
You were waiting on a payphone at a
truck stop in Houston
A#                         F
Trying to call your mother, ’cause she's a worrier

A handful of twenties in your overcoat
Always rolled into a pillow on some stranger's floor
And you tell these stories with happy endings
Only when interrupted before they’re over

Chorus:
    A#
But I won't let the light fade
F
I won't let the light fade
F                    C/E  D C
Chasing these glows into dawn
A#
I won't let the light fade
F
I won't let the light fade
F              C/E      Dm
Falling asleep in their arms

It seemed these highways were never-ending
Circling odds and evens, the numbers ascending and
Searching through static on the Wyoming plains
We danced to both kinds of music,
as the old joke claims

And I wanted for nothing, I couldn't rent
We lived on whiskey and Twizzlers,
and youth's discontent
With this Rand McNally atlas, dog-eared and frayed
Like Old Testament verses that
don't make sense in this decade

Chorus:
Don’t let the light fade
I won’t let the light fade
Chasing these roads into dawns
I won't let the light fade
I won’t let the light fade
Falling asleep in their arms
But I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Chasing these roads into dawns

        Gm
And I'm holding on
A#
Holding on

Dm
I won’t let the light fade
F                          A# F
I won't let the light fade
Dm
I won't let the light fade
F                          A# F
I won't let the light fade
Dm
I won’t let the light fade
F                          A# F
I won't let the light fade