Bright Eyes – Method Acting (Ukulele)

         Em                                Bm7
There's no beginning to the story, a bookshelf sinks into the sand

     C                                        G  F#/D
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

       C                               G  F#/D
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

            C                                 G  F#/D
We need some reception, a higher message, just tell us what to fear

      Am      D         G  F#/D      Em
'Cause I don't know what tomorrow brings

    Am     D               G  F#/D    Em
It's alive with such possibilities

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

           B+
Burdens are lifted from me

                 Em   Bm7 C G F#/D
That's my voice rising

            Em                                      Bm7
So, Michael, please keep the tape rolling, boys keep strumming those guitars

         C                                    G  F#/D
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

  C                                    G  F#/D
To shed this skin, be born again, it starts with an ending

  Am         D                G  F#/D  Em
So thank you, friends, for the time we shared

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

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

         B+
My joy is covering me

                 Em  Bm7 C G F#/D
Soon, I will disappear

C
It's not a movie

Em
No private screening

Am
This method acting

        D
Well, I call that living

  C
It's like a fountain

Em
A door has opened

Am
We have a problem

     D
With no solution

      Cmaj7             B+
But to love and to be loved

  Am        D              G   F#/D   Em
So I've made peace with the falling leaves

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

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

     B+
And returned to that which

             Em Bm7 C G F#/D
Gave birth to me     

Em Bm7 C G F#/D
Gave birth to me