Manchester Orchestra – The Alien (Guitar)

   Am                       D/F#                     G                          C
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A|-0----------------------|------------------------|--------------------------|-3----------------------|
E|------------------------|-2--------2-----2-----2-|-3------------------------|------------------------|

Am                                    D/F#
   The lights were low enough, you guessed

                     G                                 C
   You swapped your conscience with your father's medication

Am                                   D/F#
   Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville

               G                                   C
   And on the way, you wrote out a self-made declaration

Am                                   D/F#
   And when you got to Pleasant Hill

                   G                            C
   You forced the traffic to erase your family demons

Am                                  D/F#
   And made a pact with you and god

                 G                              C
   If you don't move, I swear to you I'm gonna make ya

   C                         Em                        G                              C
e|-------8-----8-----8-----|-------7-----7-----7-----|-----------------------------|-------8-----8-----8-----|
B|---------8-----8-----8---|---------8-----8-----8---|-------12-----12-----12------|---------8-----8-----8---|
G|---9-------9-----9-----9-|---9-------9-----9-----9-|---12----12-----12-----12----|---9-------9-----9-----9-|
D|-----10------------------|-----9-------------------|-----12-----12-----12-----12-|-----10------------------|
A|-------------------------|-7-----------------------|-10--------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-8-----------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------------|-8-----------------------|

       C        Em
Do you need me?

       G        C
Do you need me?

       C        Em
Do you need me?

       G        C
Do you need me?

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G|---5-------5-----5-----5-|---7-----7-----7-----7---|---4-------4-----4-----4-|---5-------5----5-----5-|
D|-----7-------------------|-----7-----7-----7-----7-|-----5-------------------|-----5------------------| x4
A|-------------------------|-5-----------------------|-------------------------|-3----------------------|
E|-5-----------------------|-------------------------|-3-----------------------|------------------------|

Am                                D
   When the first officer arrived

                   G                                 C
   It happened to be the high school bully of your brother

Am                        D
   When you finally recognized

                  G                               C
   You felt some guilt that you had even let him touch you

Am                                    D
   Can you hear me, what's your name?

                   G                                C
   You could not speak just laid amazed at all the damage

Am                                D
   As the high school's letting out

            G                                        C
   All the kids are sayin' the same thing that they used to

        C     Em
It's an alien

        G     C
It's an alien

        C     Em
It's an alien

        G     C
It's an alien

Am                                 D
   The lights are low enough you guessed

             G                              C
   Hospital food, there's never enough medication

Am                              D
   The doctor asked about your ears

                  G                                 C
   You said your mom said you were made from a revelation

Am                        D
   The revelation never scares

                   G                                   C
   Your fear came from your drunken dad and a pair of scissors

Am                                D
   Were you just finally letting go?

            G                                 C
   Did you mean to take out all those people with you?

       C       Em
Didn't mean to

       G       C
Didn't mean to

       C       Em
Didn't mean to

       G       C
Didn't mean to

            C                          Em
Oh I didn't mean ------------------ to

            G                  C
Oh I didn't mean ---------- to

            C                          Em
No I didn't mean ------------------ to

            G                   C
Oh I didn't mean ----------- to

Am                                                                 G
Time is here to take your last amendments and believe them on your own

Am                                                        G
Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there alone

Am                                                              G
Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it into stone

Am                                                        G
Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here alone