Bright Eyes – The Biggest Lie (Ukulele)

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A cover of the Elliott Smith song from Conor's "Motion Sickness" live album. A harder song to sing that it is to play. Singing Guide: "~" denotes the words that are extended to assist with playing the song. [Verse 1]

    C                Am
I'm wait~ing for the train

F      Em            C     G   Am
The subway that only goes~ one way

F          G              F               Am
The stupid thing~ that'll come to pull us apart

    G              C
And make everybody late

[Verse 2]

    C                     Am
You spent~ everything you had

F      Em            C     G    Am
Wanted everything to stop~ that bad

F             G                    F             Am
And now I'm a crushed credit card~ registered to Smith

        G                     C
Not the name that you call me with

[Bridge] C Am F G C Am F G C Am C G [Verse 3]

           C             Am
You turned white~ like a saint

    F                Em          C     G      Am
I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold~ flaked paint

F         G          F                 Am
Oh, we're so~ (very) precious, you and I

         G                  F                Am
And everything~ that you do makes me want to die

F     G7                    C Am F
Oh, I just told the biggest lie

  G                     C Am F
I just told the biggest lie

G           C Am C
The biggest lie