Okkervil River – We Need A Myth (Guitar)

           G
We need a myth

                      Bm
We need an amethyst bridge

                        Em
We need a high hanging cliff, jump, fall and lift

        C
We can make it

              G
But we need a myth

                           Bm                
We need a path through the mist

                               Em            
Like in our beds, we were just kids

                          C                 
Like what was said by our parents

  G#
A myth

                            C#
'Cause what we're after is just this

  G#                                        
A myth

                            C#                
'Cause what we're after is just this

           A
We need a myth

                         C#m
I feel my heart's like a fist

                                  F#m
Words spilling out of the blessed lips

                    D
Of any prophet or goddess

         A                                  
I need a myth

                          C#m                 
Brought back to life by a kiss

                 F#m                          
Scrape away grey cement

                            D               
Show me the world as it was again

               A                            
As it was in a myth

                C#m                           
A red ribbon to reconnect

                       F#m                    
The lady's head to her neck

                                       D    
And to forget that her throat was ever slit

                            Bb
'Cause what we're after is just this

        Eb
It's a myth

                            Bb
'Cause what we're after is just this

        G#m                 F#                E
And I'm sick of all these picture books that try

        G#m                 F#                E
To steal some old reflections for their light

        G#m                 F#                E
But desperate measures point to desperate times

           F#
And that's why

          B    Ebm    G#m    E
We need a myth

            B
We're cut adrift

                Ebm
We need a mass uplift

                             G#m
The world is trembling and weeping

                        E
Just at the point of believing

     B
In a myth

                          Ebm
The sun that shines on my head

                           G#m
The moon that lights me to bed

                   E
Were two identical twins

            B
Inside of a myth

                Ebm
I heard the voice of a friend

                             G#m
On Lethe's banks, wading in

                       E
And he said, "Before I forget...”

           C#
We need a myth

                 Fm
As we lean in to kiss

                             Bbm
To get two nails through the wrist

                   F#
To get covered in blood, and to get covered in spit

          C#
And to forgive

                 Fm
And if all we're taught is a trick

                             Bbm
Why would this feeling persist?

                   F#
And with the truth closing in, I must insist

          F#
We need a myth