The Brave Little Abacus

45 Minutes From Somewhere Out There

The Brave Little Abacus


Tom: D

  D   A
I saw you
     G                   Bm/F#          A
with ten years past, you didn't seem to know me
     G                            Bm/F#             A
Your hands on your sides, you had pride in your new form
    G      Bm/F#  A    A        G     Bm/F#  Em   Em
And how    you    no - ticed    me    no  -  ti - cing

[Chorus 1]
G                     F#m          D        Bm  F#m  Em
Big bulging eyes like frogs in the hands of boyhood, boyhood
G                     F#m          D        Bm  F#m  Em
Big bulging eyes like frogs in the hands of boyhood, boyhood
G                     F#m          D        Bm   F#m  Em
Big bulging eyes like frogs in the hands of boyhood, boy

[Verse 2]
G                   Bm/F#
Could you at least stay here with me?
   A                             A
My head fell onto broken down boxes
                                     G
You're climbing up the stairs, I've lost this
      Bm/F#      A
Wait up, wait up
                             A
This can't be happening again

I swear I love you, my best friend

D       A
G       Bm/F#   A
G       Bm/F#   A
G       Bm/F#   A
A       G       Bm/F#   Em

[Chorus 2]
G                     A                     Bm
Big bulging eyes like frogs in the hands of boyhood
        D                     G
Wake up older and older and older
         A               Bm
I was so ready to become
            D              G
Something I could've never been born
 A         Bm                   D                G
Obesity is something one should never ever think about
A      Bm    D               G            A                Bm
You're lea - ving and I'll retreat to the smallest place I know
             D
And in this, calm down again

[Bridge]
Em9                            Em9
I'll probably figure out a plan
                            Gmaj7
That if my stomach feels as upset as me
           Gm
Then we'll call ourselves a team and dream that

[Refrain]
D      A     G   A
Some - where out there
  D         A        G     A
Beneath the pale moonlight
G      A              D    G
Some - one's thinking of   me
    Em   Em/F#  Em/G  Em/B   A/C#
And lo - ving   me    to  -  night

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D   Em   G   G

[Bridge]
       D   Em    G     G
I wasn't born rejected
       D           Em          G         G
So I doubt I won't die in the hands of another
          D     Em       G    G
But when I speak and am muted
       D           Em        G               G
I'm reminded that I'm just a kid, younger brother

[Interlude]
D   Em   G   G
D   Em   G   G
D   Em   G   G
D   Em   G   G

[Outro]
    G             A             G            A
And even though I know how very far apart we are
   G                    A            G                     A
It helps to think we're wishing underneath the same bright star
    Bb                  C                Bb            C
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
   Bb                  C             C                     A
It helps to know we're sleeping underneath the same bright sky

D      A     G   A
Some - where out there
   D        A        G     A
If love can see this through
G    A         Dmaj7   Gmaj7
Then we'll be toge  -  ther
Em
Somewhere out there
    A                 D
Out where dreams come true