Biography:
The Format was an indie pop band formed in Peoria, Arizona, United States in 2001 by Sam Means and Nate Ruess.
Throughout the band's existence, the duo toured and recorded with a revolving door of musicians, and as of 2007, the band consisted of guitarists Mike Schey and Mark Buzard, bassist Don Raymond, drummer Adam Boyd, and its principal members, singer Nate Ruess and multi-instrumentalist Sam Means. The band chose their name to make fun of the music industry's inclination towards a cookie-cutter "format" for a hit.
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C
Hold on there's a hole in my heart
Dm
Everyone can see right through me
(Em) F
It goes all the way to the waves
G F G
Where my love she tried to wash it away
C
See we break for the summers so she can find lovers
Dm
She thinks that they're bottles of wine
(Em) F
They make you dinner and they sing you to sleep
G F G
But by the morning find the bottle is empty
Am
Cause she never gives it the time
Dm
Every bottle she finds they don't compare
(Em) F
To the ones she left behind There is never a note
G F G
So she waits for me to come back home
CHORUS 1
C
I'm looking for a dead end song
Dm
You wish that smoke could change its color
F
I love it when you talk so much
G F
And act like nothing went wrong
G C
I'm looking for a dead end song
Dm
We sit and find flaws in everyone
F
I want to keep you by my side
G
Holding off tidal waves
VERSE 2
C
Mint Car is keeping us warm
Dm
She lays crossed upon the bed
(Em) F
We are puzzles making shapes with our hands
G F G
I take my finger turn it into a pen
Am
Then I run my hand down your spine
Dm
You guess to write something profound Something like
(Em)
Our love will last 'til we die
F
I say you're good at this game
G
but what I really wrote is
F G
How I've yet to be saved
CHORUS 2
C
I'm looking for a dead end song
Dm
You wish that smoke could change its color
F
I love it when you talk so much
G F
And act like nothing went wrong
G C
I'm looking for a dead end song
Dm
We sit and find flaws in everyone
F
I want to keep you by my side
G
Holding off tidal waves
G
REFRAIN
Am Em
I'm searching for a dead end song
Am Em
You wish that smoke could change its color
Dm G
I wanna get you right by my side
Am Em
I'm searching for a dead end song
Am Em
We sit and find flaws in everyone
Dm G
I want to keep you right by my side
CHORUS 3
C
I'm looking for a dead end song
Dm
You wish that smoke could change its color
F
I love it when you talk so much
G F
And act like nothing went wrong
G C
I'm looking for a dead end song
Dm
We sit and find flaws in everyone
F
I want to keep you by my side
G
Holding off tidal waves
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