Chords:
C - X32010
C9- x32030
G - 320033
F - 133211
Am- X02210
Intro:
C G F C
G
C G F C
G FG
C G F
Red is my favorite color
Am C G
Red like your mother's eyes after awhile
C G F
Of crying about how you don't love her
Am
She says, "I know I don't deserve
C
Supervised sight of her
G (F G Am FG)
But each day becomes a blur without my daughter"
C G F
Fall is my favorite season
Am C G
Like falling to reasoning why you crashed from on high
C G F
She says, "Why is my life so uneven
Am
And what have I done right
C
But given you your life
G (FG) Am F G
If after I let you on into that bar room... into that bar room?"
Interlude:
C C C9 C
C G F C
G
C G F C
G
C G F C
C G F C
C G F C
G FG
C G F
"Yes" is my favorite answer
Am C G
I took a dancer home, she felt so alone
C G F
We stayed up all night in the kitchen
Am C G
Doing my dishes, on and on until the dawn
C G Am
She said, "I know that it's easy to have me
F
But I have seen some things
G C G Am
That I cannot even tell to my family pictures
F G
And I'm full of fictions and fucking addictions
C
And I miss my mother"
Second Interlude*:
C C9 C C9
C C9 C C9
C C9 C C9
*The rhythm here is difficult to explain from the chords alone;
basically he switches between C and C9 for twelve measures. You
can hear it especially well from the left speaker.
C G F
She'll never know I could never forget her
Am C G
If I could write her a letter, I'd try with every line
C G F
To say, "She still remembers your touch
Am G
And I know that it's not much
C G F
I know that it's not much
Am G
I know that it's not much
C
But you still haven't lost her
(C G F C G G G G)
You still haven't lost her
(C G F C G G G G)
You still haven't lost her
(C G F C C G F C C G F C)
You still haven't lost her
G
Not yet"
