Monsters

G C 4x G She never boarded up the windows, grandma like to say, Em She rode Every Storm, frying chicken just the same G D/F# Now Dallas brings the Lumber, puts new holes in the frame Em D C he never fills in the old ones, text his momma up in Maine it's looking bad again… Am D It's what the TV people say, oh the water so much warmer now, but it always looks the same. G Lapping at the train tracks, basin 30 miles wide, Em while the sun slips behind, like Fire in the Sky C And it's rainbows in your front yard, and it's Sirens going wild Am D Oh it's always been like this don't go soft on us child. G Em And the waters rise, rolling in the dark the rain keeping time, C Beating like your heart, but you sing anyway G While the banjos they clawhammer their old drinking songs, Am D and the monsters outside, oh they howl along. G Trina worries from New York, about her brother and their friends Em they're still sitting in Magnolias, still listening to the wind C She found a place in Buffalo, big wide rooms to sleep them all Am D Half of what she pays in Brooklyn, between the highway in the mall G But her grandma and her brother, oh they're stubborn as they come Em They say go get on the subway, go and to have a little fun. C Am And forget about the troubles, that the Bayou sings alone, you've made it far north enough, D you don't need to come back home. G Em And the waters rise, rolling in the dark the rain keeping time, C Beating like your heart, but you sing anyway G While the banjos they clawhammer their old drinking songs, Am D and the monsters outside, oh they howl along. G Em C Am D Ooohh