Beck – Orphans (Guitar)

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[Verse]
D
Think I'm stranded but I don't know where

           Bb                C              D
I got this diamond that don't know how to shine

D
In the sun where these dark winds wail

          Bb                   C         D
and these children leave their rulers behind

      Bb        C              D
As we cross ten leagues from a Rubicon

     F          G        D
with matchsticks for my bones

          Bb           C         F       G
If we can learn how to freeze ourselves alive

         Bb                   C           D
We could learn to leave these burdens to burn
[Chorus 1]
F              C
Cast out these creatures of woe

G               D
Who shatter themselves

F          C        G         D
Fighting a fire with your bare hands
[Verse]
D
Now my journey takes me further south

          Bb            C          D
I want to hear what the blind men sing

D
With their fossils and their gypsy bones

            Bb               C       D
I'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone

Bb      C      D
How can I make new again

     F        G         D
What rusts every time it rains?

        Bb           C         F       G
And the rain, it comes and floods our lungs

          Bb           C              D
We're just orphans in a tidal wave's wake
[Chorus 2]
Bm                            D
If I wake up and see my maker coming

Bm                                     D
With all of his crimson and his iron desire

Bb                                       D
We'll drag the streets with the baggage of longing

      Am          G               F
To be loved or destroyed, from a void

     C        G            D
to a grain of sand in your hand
[Interlude]
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B|-6---5---8---7---6---5---3-|
G|-5---4---7---7---5---4---2-|
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[Outro]
D Cadd9 Am C/G
 Ahhhh ooh ooh    x4