Bright Eyes – Forced Convalescence (Guitar)

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Chords

[Verse]
 C                         Gm
[tab]        F
Staring contest

        Fm                C
With the ceiling and my feet

 C                   Gm
Was momentarily conscious

        F
Of the backflips

         Fm             Dm
I've been doing in my sleep

Dm                   G
I’m not afraid of the future

      Em7           Gm
Have to suffer and repeat

  C         F
I tend to agree

 Fm
What happens will be

 Em7     A7
Pain of my own making

  Dm          G     C
Cut short by eternity

C                     Gm
Now I've recovered completely

       F
Life is easy

       Fm                 C
Hula-hooping around the sun

  C                  Gm
The calendar's little boxes

      F
All these presents

      Fm            Dm
Get to open every one

    Dm               G
I’ll be prepared for the winter

   Em7
And the summer

     Gm
And beyond

     C            F
Just keep tagging along

    Fm
Until the feeling is gone

    Em7      A7
Amazed by the haystack

   Dm       G     C
Needle to oblivion
[Chorus]
C       Gm
In a daze

       F
In the doorway

         Fm              C
I stood crying for what was

C       Gm
In a trance

     F
In a taxi

           Fm                      Dm
Just keep driving please don't stop

Dm            Em              F
Out of the neighborhood, the multiverse

    G       Ab
Iron and rust
[Solo] Ab Fm C Em Ab Fm C G Dm Em F G [Verse]
C                           Gm
Went out of town for the weekend

     F
With my children

        Fm               C
Built sandcastles in the sun

 C                    Gm
Catastrophizing my birthday

        F
Turning forty

         Fm
Ending up like everyone

Dm                    G
There's no escaping the housework

    Em7
Or the bank clerk

       Gm
Or the priest

  C            F
They're waiting for me

   Fm
In my Egyptian sheets

  Em7           A7
The Seroquel's working

    Dm            G      C
It's fighting my fantasies
[Chorus]
C         Gm
In the dark

       F
At a distance

         Fm         C
I see everything at once

 C        Gm
Feel the wind

              F
Through the window

         Fm              Dm
And I'm overcome with love

 Dm         Em           F
Inter-dimensional, no obstacles

    G        Ab
Mountains and dust