Buildings by Regina Spektor
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


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He was a husband who drove his wife home drunk from the parties 
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He was a husband who drove his wife home 
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And in the car he would gently lean her head on the side door window 
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And in the bathroom he would hold her hair back and hope, saying: 
 
D        A                D        A
Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, 
D        A                F#m      E
Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,
D        A                D        A
Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,
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Oh, they build buildings so tall these days 
 
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And in the morning she'd wake up and crouch recollections all day 
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But she would always always wake up the next morning 
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And he'd take one look at her and say, oh, oh, it's okay
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And her conscience would issue yet another last warning, saying; 
 
D        A                D        A
Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, 
D        A                F#m      E
Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,
D        A                D        A
Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,
D        A               E             A
Oh, they build buildings so tall these days 
 
              F#m                    D
And she would ask for time and she'd ask for time
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And she'd ask for time and she'd ask for time  
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And she would beg for time and she'd beg for time and call it a gift
 
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And he would give her time and he'd give her time 
         E                      A
And he'd give her time and he'd give her time
    F#m                   D
But time is not given and time is not taken 
       E                  A
It just sifts through its sieve
    F#m                   D
But time is not given and time is not taken 
       E                  A
It just sifts through its sieve
 
D A E  D A E
 
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Sift through its sieve, just sift through its sieve
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Oh, darling......sift through its sieve....just sift through its sieve
 
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And it would be coffee and coffee and coffee 
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And coffee and coffee and coffee some more 
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He'd go to work and she'd take a sick day and rot at the core 
 
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And by the time he came back, she'd scrub the bathrooms 
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And make them smell like pine 
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It would be almost as if nothing had happened 
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And he'd give her time, oh, oh, and he'd give her time, saying:
 
D        A                D        A
Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings, 
D        A                    F#m              E
Oh, they build buildings, oh, don't they build buildings,
D        A                D        A
Oh, they build buildings, oh, they build buildings,
D        A               E             A
Oh, they build buildings so tall these days 
 
              F#m                    D
And she would ask for time and she'd ask for time 
          E                      A
And she'd ask for time and she'd beg for time
              F#m                    D                E         A
And she would beg for time and she'd beg for time and call it a gift 
 
             F#m                    D
And he would give her time and he'd give her time
         E                      A
And he'd give her time and he'd give her time
    F#m                   D
But time is not given and time is not taken 
       E                  A
It just sifts through its sieve
    F#m                   D
But time is not given and time is not taken 
       E                  A
It just sifts through its sieve
 
D A E  D A E
 
                     D    A E                D    A E
Oh, sift through its sieve, sift through its sieve
    D A E  D A E                  D    A E                  D    A E
Oh, ooh..........sift through its sieve....sift through its sieve
 
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He was a husband who drove, time, home, time, car, hope
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Core, cores a day, pour coffee, core warning, last warning
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Was a husband, time, pine, scrub, scrub, bathroom, clean, 
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Hair, bath, car, window, hope, time, gift
 
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Don't they build buildings tall these days...