Car Seat Headrest – Reality (Guitar)

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[Intro] G Em Am C G [Verse 1]
    G
You did what you saw in the movies

    Em
Someone put you under a spell

   Am                      C
In some world it is always happening

         G
The next morning, everything went to hell
[Verse 2]
          G
And I play back the tapes as often as I can

               Em
But we weren't meant to have memories this long

    Am                        C
The pictures degrade into snowflakes, dancing

    G
Any answer I hoped for is gone
[Instrumental] G Em Am C G [Verse 3]
         G
And that must be what drove them all crazy

              Em
They were the first ones allowed to grow old

    Am                             C
The spark goes, but the body keeps living

              G
You kiss your children, but they just feel the cold
[Verse 4]
       G
And it just slipped away on one morning

              Em
And when they woke up they found it was gone

     Am                            C
They still sang the songs and made marry

         G
But deep down, they knew something was wrong
[Chorus 1]
G
So they called me up, said "it's not enough

   C                    Am
We needed new things to feel

C                     D
Dead memories and the color of grief

          Am
Won't you help us to make it real?"

          G
Well, if you can take it when the mountains break

        C                   Am
And the sea swallows up the sky

        C                         D
You can ride on me, I'll take you beyond belief

       Am
I will show you the reason why
[Solo] G Em Am C G [Verse 5]
    G
And in the best scene of the movie

     Em
I am driving a car that won't stop

   Am                         C
Distracted for sure, fighting some psychic war

   G
We all were too wasted to stop
[Verse 6]
               G
You said you'd take me away on a starship

          Em
But baby, why'd you have to wait so long?

        Am
In the transept, in the apse

       C
In a selfish moment's lapse

         G
I fell asleep waiting for that far-off song
[Chorus 2]
        G                      Gmaj7
So they gave it up, said "it's all too much

        C                         Am
I can't take it if this is how it feels"

        C                   D
Got to pay the piper, hire another writer

   Am
To tell you what is real

       G                           Gmaj7
But if you could take me when the mountains break

        C                    Am
And the sky spells satanic designs

        C                   D
You can call me up, I will call your bluff

            Am
And you can finally lose your mind
[Instrumental] G D Gsus4 G Gsus2 G Am C Am C [Verse 7]
G                    D
 I was warned of all this

       Gsus4          G
Didn't listen, didn't listen

Gsus2                     G
Please wake up, I need to talk to you right now
Am C Am C [Verse 8]
G                    D
 I got bored of all this

           Gsus4          G
And didn't listen, didn't listen

Gsus2                     G                             Am C Am C
Muttering BLID to get me through the next twelve minutes
[Verse 9]
G                         D             Gsus4
 I caught a glimpse of myself and fell right in

       G
I fell right in

Gsus2                      G
Didn't know that there was only one way out

Am C
     (Stage rest)

Am C
     (No, stage left)

Am C
     (No, stage right)

Am C
     (No, stage left)

Am C
     (No, stage right)

Am C
     (No, stage left)

Am C
     (No, stage right)
Am C Am C Am C [Outro]
Am C  Am                    C                   Am C Am
Oh-oh-oh,  hold onto this thread and don't look back

               C                     Am C Am
Hold onto this thread and don't look back

               C                     Am C Am
Hold onto this thread and don't look back

               C
Hold onto this thread-

    Am
The earth fell out from under me

        C
And the earth fell out from under me

        Am
And the earth fell out from under me

        C
And the earth fell out from under me

        Am
And the earth fell out from under me

        C
And the earth fell out from under me

        Am
And the earth fell out from under me

        C
And the earth fell out from under me

        Am
And the earth fell out from under me

        C
And the earth fell out from under me

        Am
And the earth fell out from under me

        C
And the earth fell out from under me

        Am
And the earth fell out from under me (Earth fell out from under me)

        C
And the earth fell out from under me (Earth fell out from under me)

        Am
And the earth fell out from under me (Earth fell out from under me)

        C
And the earth fell out from under me (Earth fell out from under me)