BACKYARD (WE DON’T NEED EVERYTHING)

Intro
​G / C / G / C

Verse 1​
G​ C​ G​ C​
Take all the things we don’t need anymore to the
G​ C
backyard
​ G​ C​ G ​C​ G
Possessions that we can’t find a use for that just sit
C
there
​Em​ ​ C​ G
Clothes that won’t fit or have gone out of style
Em ​C​ G
We both lost our passion for fashion a while back
​ Am​ C​ G / C etc
And now we don’t need everything

Verse 2​
It’s time that we emptied out every drawer and then looked hard
​We don’t want, we don’t need all the things that we’ve hoarded for so long
​Keep all the things that keep memories alive
​But throw out the ones we forgot why we kept them
​Oh no we don’t need everything

Mid​
D7​ Am ​Bm​ D
We can sort all of it into what is or isn’t broken
​ D7​ Am
We’ll give what we can to the charity shops
​ Bm​ D
And the rest… we’ll dump it or burn it

Verse 3​
Watch as the flames rise up into the sky in the backyard
​This fire is a farewell, a final goodbye to that which we don’t want
​Burn all the letters from lovers of old
​Burn any bad memory leaves you feeling cold
​Oh you know we don’t need everything

Outro
​G / C / G / C / G / C / G / C / G

© Dermot O’Leary 2010
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