Dawes – Surprise (Guitar)

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Once the gatekeepers decided

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We would fade into the crowd

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You took what makes you charming

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And you turned it up too loud

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Now how many songs does the band have to get through

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Before you steal away the mic?

          D                   F#m
How many cakes do you have to jump out of

          Gm         E
Before no one yells "surprise"?

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I remember us both learning

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That no one's dreams come true

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They're either not quite how you saw them

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Or the goalpost just gets moved

      B                             E
That's when you changed your expectations

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And started rolling your third eye

          D                   F#m
But you still don't know the ending

          Gm           E
You can't spoil the surprise

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And now the nature of your birthday parties

               C#m
Changed a lot for me

       F#m           E
What was once a celebration

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Feels like a shameless victory

      B                            E
I guess we all confuse our happiness

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With what it takes to just survive

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But the moment that the switch gets flipped

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Is always a surprise

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There's a little bit of poetry

               C#m
In what you're doing to your face

     F#m            E
Removing all the evidence

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Of our shared time and space

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But your eyes close when you smile now

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Because you're squeezing it too tight

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If this is how you double down

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You're in for a surprise

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There's a nightclub deep in Hollywood

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For each night of the week

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Watching all my fake friends congregate

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Where no one wants to be

      B                        E
But you have to muddle through it

             E     A       F#m
If you wanna make it out alive

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And the ones that find the other side

        Gm         E
Are in for a surprise

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No, I'm not letting myself off easy here

          C#m
I've been going through it too

            F#m                E
I might've leaned into things more gracefully

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But what good did that do?

      B                 E
You found your way to rage

             E     A       F#m
Against the dying of the light

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I thought I planned for all contingencies

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I thought I knew who I was meant to be

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All those roads laid out in front of me

          Gm             E
But it's still a big surprise