Bright Eyes – Tilt-A-Whirl (Guitar)

B                             G#m
 My phantom brother came to me

                                 E
 His backlit face was hard to see

                               B   E B E
 I couldn’t move, I couldn’t scream

B                                G#m
 You can’t unhear Beethoven’s 5th

                               E
This human heart’s an aggregate

                         B
Competing feelings so disparate

      F#
And strange

         E        F#
Life’s a solitary song

          E              F#
No one to clap or sing along

             E/G#                F#
It sounds so sweet and then it’s gone

          B E B E
So suddenly

B                               G#m
 My aging mother steeled herself

                            E
Against the gravity she felt

                               B E B E
Braced for another fainting spell

B                                  G#m
 Fell in her mind through a trap door

                               E
We picked her up off of the floor

                                 B
When she came to her throat was sore

         F#
And she spoke

          E           F#
Life’s a game of solitaire

           E               F#
Amusement rides at county fairs

           E/G#            F#
The Tilt-A-Whirl of our despair

            B
Ends suddenly... Where’d it go?

          E             F#
Life’s a lonely love affair

         E              F#
Kaleidoscope beyond compare

        E/G#            F#
It vanishes into thin air

         B
So suddenly