Chord Square by Amanda Ong

Verse 1 F7 Em7 The sun is up, bright and blinding to my tired eyes F7 C7 The daylight’s no excuse for the cold winter F7 E7 Beneath the layers I’m clothed in Am7 C/Bb Behind the masks, I’m feeling F7 Fm Cold, and I’m shivering Verse 2 F7 Em7 The weather’s unforgiving but nothing’s really new F7 C7 It’s been this way for most of my time here F7 E7 The walls keep coming closer to me Am7 C/Bb They hug me so tightly F7 Fm So I feel warmly suffocated C7 F7 C7 F7 Chorus 1 Dm7 E7 The triangles that form a square are just Asus2 C7/G Fragments of a thing trying to keep itself together Dm7 E7 If we could just see it for what it is Asus2 C7/G Life could be so much better Am/F# So can I be real with you? Dm7 E7 Before someone tells me that I have to be a square again Dm7 E7 Asus2 How 'bout you take a second look at the pieces within; C7/G Am/F# F7 Dm7/G The shapes, the lines, and the angles that make up a shattered quadrilateral Verse F7 Em7 I can hardly remember what it feels like to be comfy F7 C7 In a weather that drowns my frowns and blows my mind in a good way F7 E7 The prickling, icy, fierce, unfeeling season’s never-ending F7 Fm Perpetually tormenting my being C7 F7 C7 F7 Chorus 2 Dm7 E7 The triangles that form a square are just Asus2 C7/G Fragments of a thing trying to keep itself together Dm7 E7 If we could just see it for what it is Asus2 C7/G Life could be so much better Am/F# So can I be real with you? Dm7 E7 Before someone tells me that I have to be a square again Dm7 E7 Asus2 How 'bout you take a second look at the pieces within; C7/G Am/F# F7 Dm7/G The shapes, the lines, and the angles that make up a shattered quadrilateral Verse F7 Em7 One day the sun will shine and it won’t be cold F7 C7 And I'll be free to swelter in the heat Asus2 C7/G Am/F# F7 I’ll be tossing layers and the glue welding my walls shut will finally melt Asus2 C7/G Am/F# F7 Fm F7 It will be warm outside and I’ll no longer be shivering in daylight