Bright Eyes – The Center Of The World (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro]
e|---2-----2---|
B|-----3-----3-|
G|-0-----------| x4
D|-------4-----|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
G [Verse 1]
G                        Bm
   At the center of the world

                       Am
There's a statue of a girl

                        C
She is standing near a well

        D               G
With a bucket bare and dry
[Verse 2]
                              Bm
I went and looked her in the eyes

                        Am
And she turned me into sand

                           C
This clumsy form that I despise

              D           G
It scattered easy in her hand
[Verse 3]
                         Bm
And came to rest upon a beach

                        Am
With a million others there

                           C
We sat and waited for the sea

                         D            G
To stretch out so that we could disappear
[Refrain]
                         Bm
Into the endlessness of blue

                         Am
Into the horror of the truth

                                 C
You see we are far less than we knew

             D                 Em
Yeah, we are far less than we knew
[Bridge]
                           C
But we knew what we could taste

                               Em
Girls found honey to drench our hands

                           B
Men cut marble to mark our graves

                              G
Said we'll need something to remind us of

                          B
All the sweetness that has passed through us
(Fresh sangria and lemon tea)
                                   Em
The priests dressed children for a choir
(White-robed small voices praise Him)
                             B
But found no joy in what was sung

    C        D     G
The funeral had begun
[Refrain]
                      Bm
In the middle of the day

                             Am
When you drive home to your place

                               C
From that job that makes you sleep

              D                      G
Back to the thoughts that keep you awake

                              Bm
Long after night has come to claim

                       Am
Any life that still remains

                      C
In the corner of the frame

          D             G
That you put around her face
[Outro]
    Bm
Two pills just weren't enough

     Am
The alarm clock's going off, but you're not waking up

            C                                          D
This isn't happening, happening, happening, happening, happening

      G
It is