Bright Eyes – If The Brakeman Turns My Way (Guitar)

     G                                C                 G
When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird

G                                               C               D
Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse

    Cmaj7                 D             G         D       C
And all your friends and sedatives mean well, but make it worse

Em        C            Em            C
Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt

       G       D/F#    C/E      D        G
Better find yourself a place to level out

      G                                 C              G
Got a cricket for a conscience always looks the other way

  G                                    C         D
A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret

     Cmaj7                 D                  G       D      C
Hey, where have all the dancers gone? Now the music doesn't play

         Em               C          Em                  C
Tried to listen to the river but you couldn't shut your mouth

       G       D/F#     C/E      D        G
Better take a little time   to level out

C                     G
   I never thought of running

C                       D
   My feet just led the way

G
  Mixed up signals  (Movin' out)

C
  Bullet train     (Movin' out)

G                               D
  Cars are switched out in the     crazy rain

G
  I could meet you (Movin' out)

C
  Any place, if the

D    Em  C         G
Brakeman turns my way

         G                         C               G
All this automatic writing I have tried to understand

       G                           C             D
From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand

        Cmaj7         D              G      D      C
It's an infinite coincidence but it doesn't form a plan

       Em              C             Em            C
So I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South

      G       D/F#     C/E      D        G
Gonna find myself somewhere to level out

         G                                C          G
Are your brothels full, oh Babylon, with merry middlemen?

      G                                        C          D
Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens

         Cmaj7              D                    G       D     C
All this death must need a counterweight, always someone born again

        Em                 C             Em         C
First a mother bathes her child then the other way around

       G       D/F#     C/E      D        G
The scales always find a way to level out

C                       G
  I tried to pass for nothing

       C                     D
But my   dreams gave me away

G
  Mixed up signals  (Movin' out)

C
  Bullet train     (Movin' out)

G                           D
  People snuffed out in the    brutal rain

G
  I could live to   (Movin' out)

C
  Any age, if the

D    Em  C         G
Brakeman turns my way

         Am                          D7
It is an old world, it's hard to remember

       G               Em
Like a dime store mystery

      Am                    D7
I'm a repeat first time offender

        C         D
Who has rewritten history

G
  Mixed up tea leaves   (Movin'out)

C
  Phantom pain   (Movin' out)

G                     D
  Fuzzy logic in the    crazy rain

G
  Getting better  (Movin' out)

C
  Every day, if the

D    Em  C
Brakeman turns my way

G
  Mixed up signals  (Movin' out)

C
  Bullet train    (Movin' out)

G                               D
  Cars are switched out in the     blinding rain

G
  He'll be smiling,         as he 

C
  Seals my fate, when the

D    Em  C         G
Brakeman turns my way