The National - New Order T-Shirt: chords

G#                          Cm
How you tapped on a box of blue American Spirits
D#            A#/D
At Anyway Cafe a little under a month
G#                               Cm
Before the ashes and management capital files
              D#  A#/D
filled the streets

How we wove through the cones walking home
To the place on Atlantic you shared with your
hilarious sister
Kicking off your black flats, demolished
and laughing

Chorus:
D#             G#
I keep what I can of you
A#                                       D#
Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
G#
You in my New Order T-shirt
A#
Holding a cat and a glass of beer

When you rescued me from the customs cops in Hawaii
When I shut down the place with
my Japanese novelty bomb
And your dad came along

How you had me lay down for a temperature check
With the cool of your hand on the back of my neck
When I said,
"I think I'm finally going crazy for real"

Chorus:
I keep what I can of you
Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
You in my New Order t-shirt
Holding a cat and a glass of beer
I flicker through
I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
You in a Kentucky aquarium
Talking to a shark in a corner

Cm            Gm
You in a bath on the phone
G#                     A#
Telling somebody that maybe they're
            Cm
better off leaving
Gm                  G#   A#
Than staying in it alone
Cm            Gm
You in a bath on the phone
G#                     A#
Telling somebody that maybe they're
            Cm
better off leaving
Gm                   G# A#
Than staying in it alone

When you cried at the beach
and recovered in seconds
And said everything's fine,
but I knew that it wasn't
Then you stayed out of reach of me for almost a year

How you looked like a poster of a '70s movie
Standing outside at the base of your
magazine skyscraper
Waiting for me to go drinking downtown

Chorus:
I keep what I can of you
Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
You in my New Order t-shirt
Holding a cat and a glass of beer
I flicker through
I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
You in a Kentucky aquarium
Talking to a shark in a corner
I keep what I can of you
Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds
You in my New Order t-shirt
Holding a cat and a glass of beer
I flicker through
I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket
You in a Kentucky aquarium
Talking to a shark in a corner