Big Thief – Forgotten Eyes (Guitar Live)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

uncapoed. (Adrianne uses a DADGAD-capo, which only covers the 3rd, 4th and 5th string.) F#BEABe (EBEABe if you're using a DADGAD-capo) For the riff in the intro, pull off the 4th fret on the high E string on the G chords (2nd fret if you count the capo that's not there). Play the chords as if all the strings were capoed. The chords are relative to the capo, except the two top strings that are uncapoed, which per defintion means that a regular D chord: xx0232 should be written as xx0254. Just play the chords as they are written below, and let open strings (0) ring open whether they are capoed or not. Hope this makes sense.
   D/A    G     A7    D    D/G   D/F#   A   Gmaj7   Bm  Dmaj7   D7    Em
e|--0-----0-----0-----2-----0-----2-----0-----0-----0-----2-----2-----0----|
B|--3-----0-----0-----3-----3-----3-----2-----0-----0-----2-----1-----0----|
G|--0-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----0----|
D|--4-----0-----2-----0-----0-----0-----2-----4-----0-----0-----0-----2----|
A|--5-----2-----4-----------x----(0)----0-----5-----2-----------------2----|
E|--5-----3-----5-----------3-----2-----x-----3-----2-----------------0----|
[Intro] D/A G A7 G D/A G A7 G [Verse 1]
D             D/G          D/F#       A
Forgotten eyes are the ones which we lose

D             D/G          D/F#       A
Forgotten hands are the ones which we choose

       D/A        Gmaj7 Bm          A
To let go of, but it is no less a bruise

       D          D/G             D/F#     A
On the collective arm keeping us high and gone

D          D/G         D/F#         A
Forgotten dance is the one left at birth

D          D/G          D/F#        A
Forgotten plants in the fossils of earth

            D/A             Gmaj7    Bm          A
And they've long passed but they are no less the dirt

       D          D/G        D/F#     A
Of the common soil keeping us dry and warm
[Chorus]
    D         Dmaj7 D7
The wound has no direction

          G            Bm           Em              A
Everybody needs a home and deserves protection‚ hmm-mm
[Verse 2]
D              D/G           D/F#         A
Hollow-eyed on Eddie Street‚ no sirens to hear

     D                D/G     D/F#             A
Just trash and soiled needles clawing the veneer

       D/A        Gmaj7 Bm        A
And no crying but it is no less a tear

       D           D/G            D/F#  A
On the common cheek with which we smile

D              D/G          D/F#          A
Hollow-eyed on Eddie‚ is it they or is it I?

      D              D/G           D/F#            A
Is it me who is more hollow as I'm quickly passing by?

        D/A       Gmaj7             Bm         A
And the poison is killing them, but then so am I

     D         D/G  D/F#  A
As I turn away
[Chorus]
    D         Dmaj7 D7
The wound has no direction

          G            Bm           Em              A
Everybody needs a home and deserves protection, hmm-mm
[Outro]
D               D/G     D/F#        A
Forgotten tongue is the language of love

D               D/G     D/F#        A
Forgotten tongue is the language of love

D/A             Gmaj7   Bm          A
Forgotten tongue is the language of love

D            D/G  D/F#  A
Forgotten tongue
D/A G A7 G D/A G A7 G D