Brandi Carlile – Anniversary (Guitar)

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From the album "Returning To Myself" (2025) Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/1MiQcWG89fQ9jsWLC5ANw4?si=4c9432c202314e25 Dadd4add9/B : x24030 Dadd4add9 : x54030 [Verse 1]
         G                         Dadd4add9/B
Give me space from the distance, a break in the silence

  C           F           G       D/F#
A face to the surface and open my eyes

        G                         Dadd4add9/B
Give me words with a purpose that hurt us and burn us

    C          F         G          D/F#
For brittling, kindling, tumbleweed lies

    Em                Dadd4add9/B
She pulled my eye and touched me twice

  C                        G          G/F#
I froze when I felt the connecting of wires

   Em                     Dadd4add9/B
So what I remembered, the accidental fires

  Am7           Am7/G    F      D/F#
I guess I must still be alive
[Verse 2]
G                         Dadd4add9/B
Go ahead and pine for the pageantry of youth

C            F                 G            D/F#
Claim it and dream it, all the pretty girls do

        G                            Dadd4add9/B
I could learn not to care, lose some weight, change my hair

       C                             Dadd4add9
What a waste of the things I've been through

           Em                        Dadd4add9/B
It doesn't happen in the dark or the silence, it's long

     C                       G             G/F#
It's there or it isn't, it's right or it's wrong

        Em                                Dadd4add9/B
I feel smug when it's powerful, when it's wordless, mechanical

C                  F         Am7  Am7/G     F
Forceful when it's angry and sad  when it's gone

D/F#
 Yeah, it's sad when it's gone
[Instrumental] | 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 | |============|=============|============|=============| | G | Dadd4add9/B | G | Dadd4add9/B | [Verse 3]
G                           Dadd4add9/B
Someone new reminds you and that's how it ends

  C           F                  G           D/F#
Unfolds and rewinds you, and the years melt away

   G                                  Dadd4add9/B
Of course it was wrong, you must have known it all along

          C        F               G          D/F#
It wasn't lazy, complacently, words you can't say

    Em                          Dadd4add9/B
And now you don't have to, it's finally right

       C                     G             G/F#
It was all in the chemistry, now you don't fight

            Em                      Dadd4add9/B
Through the night for connection, acceptance, deception

        C       F              Am7  Am7/G      F     D/F#
There's no recollection, only skin, touch, and sight
[Verse 4]
      G                         Bm
Thank God for reprieve, for the primitive peace

   C        F          G      D/F#
Discovering beautiful, easier ways

    G                        Dadd4add9/B
And closing the door on that joyless old bore

    C       F          Am7  Am7/G  F     D/F#
Anniversary mercifully fading    away

       Em                     Dadd4add9/B
It was just an old promise, a dogma at best

   C                        G           G/F#
A square on the calendar, a bulletproof vest

        Em                    Dadd4add9/B
Be your own magic feather and put it to rest

        C                     Dadd4add9
Give it back to the keeper of days
[Outro]
                      G      Bm7
It's just an ordinary day now

                      G      Bm7
It's just an ordinary day

                 G   Bm7   G
It's an ordinary day