Bright Eyes – I Will Be Grateful For This Day (Guitar Intro)

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Intro Riff 1
e|-17----17----17----17----17----17----17----17----|
B|-14----14----14----14----14----14----14----14----|
G|----16----16----16----16----16----16----16----16-|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|
Intro Riff 2
e|--5-----5-----5-----5-----4-----7-----4-----7----|
B|-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5-|
G|-------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|
Verse Riff 1
e|----12-------12-------12----12-------12-------12----14-------14----------16-------14-------12----|
B|-------12-------12-------------12-------12-------------12-------12----12----12-------12-------12-|
G|-14-------14-------14----13-------13-------13----11-------11-------11----------11-------11-------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse Riff 2
e|--------------------------------7-----7-----------------0--------0--------------0----------------|
B|--------------9--------------------------------------------------------------0-----0-------------|
G|-----------------9-----------6-----------------6-----8--------8--------8-------------------------|
D|-11-11--9-11--------9--6-h7--------7--------7-----9--------9--------9-----6-----------7--6-------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6----|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Intro]
A          Amaj7/G#            F#m          E
(with Intro Riffs 1 and 2)
[Verse] (continue Intro Riffs 1 and 2)
A          Amaj7/G#            F#m          E
   I had girl I knew she grew became a woman now

A                     Amaj7/G#    F#m          E
   I think that she teaches at one of the schools downtown,

A              Amaj7/G#             F#m               E
   we used to roll her windows down and play the music loud

A               Amaj7/G#      F#m                E
   smoking out in    her car.   Lost in west Omaha,

A                Amaj7/G#               F#m               E
   and we'd get drunk and kiss our bodies twist like shoe laces.

A                Amaj7/G#        F#m                  E
   And we never came untied     I guess you were just my type

A                  Amaj7/G#        F#m                 E
   You know that summer never stopped  I still pretend I'm there

A                     Amaj7/G#        F#m                     E
   The band's in the living room,     the neighbors they never ...
[Chorus]
       C#m                          B            F#m                                    E
cared.     So when I sat behind the drum set       your heartbeat's what I tried to play.

         F#m           F        E         D#     D
With the kick and snares so care-   less not in time.

       D
So you got ahead of me. And I guess I'm still dragging behind.
[Pre Verse]
A      Amaj7/G#     F#m     E      A      Amaj7/G#     F#m     E    F#m    F#m     B     B
(with Verse Riff 1, twice)
[Verse]
A            Amaj7/G#                  F#m              E
   I had a friend who changed his name but couldn't change himself.

A                Amaj7/G#      F#m                    E
   Never quite figured out    how to do with what life had dealt.

A              Amaj7/G#         F#m            E
   He put a needle in his arm   to calm his handsome hell.

A                   Amaj7/G#       F#m                 E
  who would have imagined it?      Could've worked out so well.

A                Amaj7/G#             F#m                   E
   Now he's a shape that moves like   echoes through my empty room.

A                                   Amaj7/G#         F#m                      E
(with Verse Riff 2)  And there's a voice that speaks like someone's right behind me.

A                                  Amaj7/G#             F#m            E
(with Verse Riff 2)   I turned around    and found exactly what you would expect.

A                                  Amaj7/G#        F#m                E
(with Verse Riff 2)   Clothes I left on my floor. The papers piled on my desk.

A                                     Amaj7/G#             F#m                E
(with Verse Riff 2)   But where the ink   is wet the cause effects what's meant by it.

A                                   Amaj7/G#        F#m                   E
(with Verse Riff 2)   The story is incomplete.     The pictures' left unfin...
[Chorus]
         C#m                          B      F#m                               E
...ished.    So I am writing my own ending.     I'll let my pen bleed black or blue.

C#m                           B       F#m                               E
     And I will color in the meaning.     It will be gold and green and true.

         F#m         F       E       D#       D
And I'll learn to love my new discovered proof.

D
I'll be grateful for this day. I will be grateful for each day to ...

A      Amaj7/G#     F#m     E      A      Amaj7/G#     F#m     E    F#m    F#m     B     B
come.  (with Verse Riff 1, four times)