The Man With The Axe chords by Lorde

[Verse 1]

F                     C
If I had to break it dow
                 Em   F
I'd say it's the way you love to dance
 Bb7           C   
Movin' the furniture when 
            Am
my back is turned
      G7    
The flick of the lights and 
    N.C.
the world falls away
 
[Chorus]

           F      
And your office job and 
       C
your silver hair
         Em                         F    
But our shapes in the dark are the reason 
              Bb7   
I've stayed for all these years
 
[Verse 2]

    F               C   
I thought I was a genius, 
              Em  
but now I'm twenty-two
     F              Bb7   
And it's startin' to feel like all 
             C
I know how to do is
 Am                G
Put on a suit and take it away
 
[Chorus]

         F                   
With my fist full of tunes 
             C 
that it's painful to play
  Em                     F
Fingernail worlds like favorite seashells
   Bb7           C       
They fill up my nights 
               Am    G7      
and then they float away
 

[Verse 3]

F       
I've got hundreds of gowns, 
             C
I've got paintings in frames
       Em       
And a throat that fills with 
              F
panic every festival day
 Bb                 C 
Dutifully fallin' apart for 
                Am  G7
the Princess of Norway
 
[Chorus]

     F              C            
But you, with your tall slashes,
      Em       F
your infinite t-shirts
 Bb                           C    
I should've known when your favorite 
               Am
record was the same as my father's
       G7
You'd take me down
 
[Verse 4]

    F                        C
I guess I'll always be this way
    Em      
Swallowed up by the words, 
      F
and halfway to space
  Bb7             C 
But there, by the fire, 
                 Am
you offered your hand
           G7
And as I took it, I loved you, 

the boy with the plan
 
[Chorus]

 D             G         D   G
You found me clean as a pine
     D            G      
The man with the axe and 
    Bb7  C7         D
the lo- ok in his eyes
 
[Break]

D / G
D / G
 
[Outro]

D                           G
We've been through so many hard times
               D                  G
I'm writin' a love song for you, baby

ℹ️ About This Song

On the 20th of August 2021, Lorde drops her new single from the album solar Power. The track is also written by Lorde.

Track Info

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• Song: The Man With The Axe
• Artist: Lorde
• Produced by Malay, Jack Antonoff & Lorde
• Album: Solar Power (D2C Exclusive Deluxe)
• Released Date: 20 August 2021

Chords Info

• Tuning: Standard(E A D G B E)
• Key: E
• Capo: 4th fret
• Chords: C, C7, D, Em, F, G7, G, Am, Bb7,
• Suggested Strumming: D D D D
• D= Down Stroke, U = Upstroke, N.C= No Chord

Guitar Chords	Ukulele Chords
C – x32010 C7 – x32310 D – xx0232 Em – 022000 F – 133211 G – 320003 G7 – 320001 Am – x02210 Bb7 – x12121	C – 0003 C7 – 0001 D – 2220 Em – 0402 F – 2010 G – 0232 G7 – 0212 Am – 2000 Bb7 – 1211