Breathless Chords

BREATHLESS
As recorded by Mean Mary
(From the 2020 Album ALONE)
 
 
 
[Intro]
D   G  D   G
 
 
[Verse 1]
    D                                G
You said it would be fun just a wild ride
D                                        G
Said that we would be another Bonnie and Clyde
D                                   G
And I was seventeen life had just begun
    D                                   G
And you were so old for barely twenty-one
       D      A   G A
Barely twenty-one
 
 
[Verse 2]
        D                                   G
There’s always a fork in the road where you choose
      D                                       G
So we took that old highway called Nothing to Lose
       D                               G
It’s a wide-open road that touches the sky
        D                                      G
It will leave you breathless it will leave you high
        D         A    G A
It will leave you high
 
 
[Chorus]
    G           D           A             Bm
The roar of the engine, the sun’s burning glare
    G                D       A          Bm
The feel of the wind rushing through my hair
    G          D              A         Bm
And seeing you smile like the Devil May Care
A         G
Leaves me breathless
   A         G
It leaves me breathless
 
 
[Verse 3]
   D                           G
It started as simple as a moth to a flame
D                              G
You had a hunger for the wrong kind of fame
    D                            G
And I was too young or too blind to see
     D                               G
That doing things wrong doesn’t make you free
   D       A       G A
We were never free
 
 
[Verse 4]
   D                                  G
So easy to become that thing that you hate
   D                                 G
To blame it on people to blame it on fate
    A                              G
Why did we give in to those demons inside?
           D                            G
We had the road before us why didn’t we ride?
    D       A       G A
Why didn’t we ride?
 
 
[Chorus]
    G             D          A        Bm
The touch of your hand on my sunburnt skin
        G          D      A          Bm
There’s no way out now no way we can win
    G          D         A            Bm
And praying to God to forgive all our sin
    A         G
Oh, leaves me breathless
    A            G
Oh, it leaves me breathless
 
 
[Interlude]
D A G A   G A D
 
 
[Verse 5]
D                                           G
You said it would be fun, you said it would be wild
     D                                    G
This wide-open highway and this wide-eyed child
    D                                 G
But trying not to pay for mistakes in your life
        D                                      G
Is like trying not to bleed when your cut by a knife
            D        A     G A
When you're cut by a knife
 
 
[Verse 6]
   D                              G
So Bonnie and Clyde turned out to be fools
       D                                  G
Didn’t care who they hurt when they broke all the rules
      D                                        G
And I should have seen it coming, the guns and fast cars
           D                                     G
With their blue lights shining brighter than the stars
         D    A         G A
Brighter than the stars
 
 
[Out-Chorus]
    G            D          A      Bm
The force of the impact the sirens squeal
    G            D         A         Bm
The cold bite of glass and merciless steel
   G               D                 A       Bm
We played our best hand now it’s the devil’s deal
    G           D          A        Bm
And seeing you now hunched over the wheel
   A        G
So cold and breathless
       A         G
Oh, it leaves me breathless
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