Nowhere Flat

Intro

Mm

Yeah

Mm-hmm

Verse 1

Half step off the root and I like it wrong

C to C sharp keeps humming where it don't belong

I pedal down the shifting till the notes all smear

Nothing here resolves and I'm still standing here

Chorus

Can't go home to the tonic

Can't go home to the tonic

Every door I open leads me somewhere flat

Can't go home to the tonic

Can't go home to the tonic

I built a little house and then I burned the map

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Oh-oh

Yeah yeah

Verse 2

Syncopate my sentences across the bar line

Voice pitched up and down like a fault line

Offbeat where the beat should land I land late

Crooked little cadence that I cultivate

Chorus

Can't go home to the tonic

Can't go home to the tonic

Every door I open leads me somewhere flat

Can't go home to the tonic

Can't go home to the tonic

I built a little house and then I burned the map

Bridge

Maybe the ending is a major third

Maybe I smile and never say a word

Maybe the ending is a major third

Sweet on the outside strange on the inside

Chorus

Can't go home to the tonic

Can't go home to the tonic

Every door I open leads me somewhere flat

Can't go home to the tonic

Can't go home to the tonic

I built a little house and then I burned the map

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Oh-oh

Mm-hmm