Sufjan Stevens - Pittsfield: chords

 F                 Dm          C/E
I'm not afraid of you now, I know
       A#     F/A           Dm             C
So I climbed down from the bunk beds this low

I can talk back to you now
I know from a few things that
I learned from this TV show

You can work late til midnight; we don't care
We can fix our own meals,
we can wash our own hair

I go to school before sunrise in the cold
And I pulled the alarm and
I kicked up the salad bowls

A#         F/A      Gm       F/A
Since that time we meant to say much
A#      F/A     Gm       F
Unsaid things begin to change
A#      F/A      Gm        F
After school we shoveled through the snow
A#               Gm      F       A#
Drive upstate in silence in the cold

Chorus:
A#         Gm
You can remind me of it
A#         Gm
That I was lazy and tired
A#           Gm
You can work all your life as
A#         Gm             F
I'm not afraid of you anymore

If I loved you a long time, I don't know
If I can't recall the last time you told me so
Here in this house in Pittsfield
The ghost of our grandmother works
at the sewing machine post

Hiding the bills in the kitchen on the floor
And my sister lost her best friend in
the Persian Gulf War
There was a flood in the bathroom last May
And you kicked at the pipes when
it rattled oh the river it made

Stand there, tell me that I'm of no use
Things unspoken break us if we choose
There's still time to wash the kitchen floor
On your knees, the bath, the sink once more

Chorus:
You can remind me that I was tired
You can work late and do yourself honor
Now that I'm older, wiser and working less
I may regret having left the place a mess

You can remind me
That I was lazy and tired
You can work all your life
As I'm not afraid of you anymore