Bright Eyes – Method Acting (Guitar)

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Chords: Em: 022000 Bm7: x24232 or x20202 C: x32010 G: 320003 D/F#: 2x023x Am: x02210 D: xx0232 Cmaj7: x32000 B*: x21000 [Verse 1]
             Em                                Bm7
There's no beginning to the story, a bookshelf sinks into the sand

      Cmaj7                                    G             D/F#
And a language learned and forgot, in turn, is studied once again

       Em                                    Bm7
It's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen

        Cmaj7                           G                D/F#
You can squint out into snowy static to make out the meaning

            Em                            Bm7
And keep on stretching the antenna hoping that it will come clear

             Cmaj7                             G            D/F#
We need some reception, a higher message, just tell us what to fear
[Chorus 1]
       Am          D       G            Em
'Cause I don't know what tomorrow brings

      Am            D     G         Em
It's alive with such possibilities

      Am       D     G      D/F#     Cmaj7
All I know is I feel better when I sing

            B*
Burdens are lifted from me

                 Em   Bm7 Cmaj7  G D/F#
That's my voice rising
Em Bm7 Cmaj7 G D/F# [Verse 2]
             Em                                      Bm7
So, Michael, please keep the tape rolling, boys keep strumming those guitars

          Cmaj7                                G            D/F#
We need a record of our failures, yes, we must document our love

         Em                                 Bm7
I've sat too long in my silence, I've grown too old in my pain

   Cmaj7                             G              D/F#
To shed this skin, be born again, it starts with an ending
[Chorus 2]
   Am                D         G              Em
So thank you, friends, for the time we shared

        Am            D        G              Em
My love stays with you like sunlight and air

             Am        D             G    D/F#      Cmaj7
And though I truly wish I could keep hanging around here

          B*
My joy is covering me

                 Em  Bm7 Cmaj7 G D/F#
Soon, I will disappear
Em Bm7 Cmaj7 G D/F# [Bridge]
C
  It's not a movie

Em/B
  No private screening

Am
  This method acting

      D
Well,    I call that living

C
  It's like a fountain

Em/B
  A door has opened

Am
  We have a problem

D
  With no solution

       Cmaj7             B*
But to love and to be loved
[Chorus 3]
   Am             D         G              Em
So I've made peace with the falling leaves

      Am             D      G        Em
I see their same fate in my own body

            Am           D          G     D/F#      Cmaj7
But I won't be frightened when I'm awoken from this dream

    B*
And returned to that which

              Em  Bm7  Cmaj7 
Gave birth to me     
[Outro]
              G                 D/F#
Gave birth to me  Gave birth to me

              Em  Bm7 
Gave birth to me

        Cmaj7
And the story goes

        G         D/F#
And the story goes

            Em            
And it goes on and on and on and on

           Bm7
It's going on and on and on and on

           Cmaj7
It's going on and on and on and on

           G             D/F#
It's going on and on and on and on

           Em
It's going on and on and on and on

           Bm7
It's going on and on and on and on

           Cmaj7
It's going on and on and, on and on

G             D/F#
On and on and on and on

    Cmaj7    B*
And on
Em Bm7 Cmaj7