OK Go – This Is How It Ends (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
                     D     D/C#
So this is how it ends

        Bm                          Bm/A
No incontrovertible truth

          Em7             G/A    G    A7
Settling in to the swell of strings

    G           Gmaj7
No deus ex machina

         G6                D
Working away in the wings

            D            D/C#
No, this is how it ends

        Bm                    Bm/A
So ruthlessly obvious now

               Em7               G/A    G    A7
Beneath the veneer     Simple, stark, and clear

    G                    Gmaj7
But God, how I feel such a fool

               Em
That it took me so long to see

        Gm
That everything happens both slowly

           D       F#        Bm       Bm7
And all at once, all at once

                  Gmaj7
I suppose nobody promised explanations

                    Em
No, my mistake was thinking it would make

        A7
sense
[Chorus]
                     D F#m     G  (Em)   A7
When this is how it ends

                     D F#m     G  (Em)   A7
When this is how it ends
[Verse 2]
                        D       D/C#
And it's almost embarrassing now

                          Bm                          Bm/A
The tortured contortions it took

Em7                             G/A    G    A7
Just to believe that there still might be

          G                                  Gmaj7
In our Byzantine rats’ nest of causes and effects

         Em
A path still left to take

                Gm                                  D
In the dizzying tangle, a magical code left to break

F#      Bm      Bm7
A choice to make

                          Gmaj7
But I suppose nobody promised it would all mean anything

          Em                                            A7
God, how naïve, believing there's a point to everything
[Chorus]
                      D    F#m     G  (Em)   A7
When this is how it ends

                      D F#m     G  (Em)   A7
When this is how it ends

                      D F#m     G  (Em)   A7
When this is how it ends

                      D F#m     G  (Em)   A7
When this is how it ends