Bright Eyes – I Believe In Symmetry (Ukulele)

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Chords

F                                        Dm
Some plans were made and rice was thrown 

F                            G
A house was built, a baby born 

F                             G
How time can move both fast and slow 

F
Amazes me 

F                                        Dm
And so I raise my glass to symmetry 

F                                 G
To the second hand and its accuracy 

F                            G
To the actual size of everything 

F
The desert is the sand 

Am
You can't hold it in your hand 

F
It won't bow to your demands 

Dm
There's no difference you can make 

G
There's no difference you can make 

Am
And if it seems like an accident 

F
A collage of senselessness 

Dm
You aren't looking hard enough 

G
I wasn't looking hard enough 
F........F
F                            Dm
An argument for consciousness 

F                             G
The instinct of the blind insect 

F                             G
Who makes love to the flower bed 

F
And dies in the first freeze 

F                                  Dm
Oh I want to learn such simple things 

F                             G
No politics, no history 

F                             G
Till what I want and what I need 

F
Can finally be the same 

Am
I just got myself to blame 

F
Is everything up to fate 

Dm
When there's choices I could make 

G
When there's choices I could make 

Am
Yeah, my heart needs a polygraph 

F
Always so eager to pack my bags 

Dm
When I really wanna stay 

G
When I really wanna stay 

Am - F - Dm - G
When I wanna stay (x4) 
Change....
F
The arc of time, the stench of sex 

F
The innocence you can't protect 

G
Each quarter note, each marble step 

G
Walk up and down that lonely treble clef 

F
Each wanting the next one 

F                                            
Each wanting the next one to arrive 

F
Each wanting the next one 

F
Each wanting the next one to arrive 

F
An argument for consciousness 

F
The instinct of the blind insect 

G
Who never thinks not to accept its fate 

G
That's fate, that's happiness and death 

F
You get to the next one 

F
You get to the next on down the line 

F
You get to the next one 

F
You get to the next on down the line 

F
The remedy of longing that 

F
Distills each dream and the song I had 

G
By morning watered down again 

G
On silver stars I wish and wish and wish 

F
Move on to the next one 

F
Move on to the next one down the line 

F
Move on to the next one 

F
Move on to the next one down the line 

F
You get to the next one 

F
You get to the next on down the line 

F
You get to the next one 

F
You get to the next on down the line