Staring Out The Window At Your Old Apartment Chords
Staring Out The Window At Your Old Apartment by Jeff Rosenstock is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, B, C, Am, Em and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
G B C Am (x2)
verse 1
G B C Am
Someone hung a decorative surfboard
G B C Am
Up where your records and movies belong
G B C Am
This light makes it nearly impossible
Em B C Am
To see if they fixed all the cracks in the wall
G Em
Staring out the window at your old apartment
Am D
Imagining the old you stumbling through
G Em
tacky renovations That the landlord wanted
Am D
to cash in on the boom
G C
And you don't know where to go now
G C
You've got nowhere to go now
verse 2
G B C Am
I wish you'd come down and meet me here
G B C Am
I'm gridlocked I'm not going anywhere
G B C Am
I've had a bad year
G Em
Staring out the window at your old apartment
Am D
Imagining the old you stumbling through
G Em
tacky renovations That the landlord wanted
Am D
to cash in on the boom
Post-Chorus
(I mix this up a bit with some picking and palm muting to crescendo)
G C
And you don't know where to go now
G C
You've got nowhere to go now
G C
You don't know where to go now
G C
You've got nowhere to go now
G C
You don't know where to go now
G C
You've got nowhere to go now
Bridge
Em B C Am
The city don't care if you live or die
Em B C Am
It's just gonna grow and it doesn't care why
Em B C Am
you're tired of kicking and fighting through life
Em B C Am
And left me alone on this cold winter night just
G Em
Staring out the window at your old apartment
Am D
Imagining the old you stumbling through
B Em
tacky renovations That the landlord wanted
Am D
to cash in on the boom
Post-Chorus
G C
And you don't know where to go now
G C
You've got nowhere to go now
G C
You've got nowhere to go now
G C
You don't know where to go now
End on G