R.E.M. – E-Bow The Letter (Guitar)

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Chorus riff:
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[Intro] | G | Em | G | Em | G | Em | [Verse 1]
     C                    G
Look up, what do you see? All of you and all of me

Em                      Bm
Fluorescent and starry. Some of them, they surprise

C                       G                              Em
The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m. this letter

                               C
Fields of poppies, little pearls

G                              Em
All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed

               Bm                   C   G
Each and every one a little scary

              Em
I said your name
[Verse 2]
                          C
I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars

     G                     Em
Hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras

Bm                         C  G
Dreaming of Maria Callas

              Em
Whoever she is

                         C
This fame thing, I don't get it

                  G
I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through it

Em                  Bm                  C   G
Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves

                    Em
I can take you far

                Em
This star thing,  I don't get it
[Chorus]
| D | Em  G | D             | Em  G |
          I'll take you over, there

             | D                         | Em  G |
               Aluminum, tastes like fear. Adrenaline, it pulls us near
(I'll take you over, there) (I'll take you over, there)
             | D                         | Em  G |
                         tastes like fear.                             
(I'll take you over, there) (I'll take you over, there) [Verse 3]
C                  G 
  Will you live to 83?

Em            Bm 
Will you ever welcome me?

         C                        G             Em
Will you show me something that noboby else has seen

                 C                G
Smoke it, drink,  here comes the flood

Em          Bm
Anything to thin the blood

           C                    G           Em
These corrosives do their magic slowly, and sweet

               C           G
Phone, eat it, drink, it's just another chink

Em                            Bm
Cuts and dents they catch the light

C           G              Em
  Aluminum,    the weakest link

                           C
I don't want to disappoint you, I'm not

G
Here to anoint you

        Em  
I would lick your feet

                Bm                            C
But is that the sickest move, I'd wear my own crown

                 G                               Em
With sadness and sorrow and who'd have thought tomorrow

                     D
Would be so strange?

         Em 
My loss, here we go again:
[Chorus]
 G             D    Em               D
                                     Aluminum tastes like fear
(I'll take you over, I'll take you there)
Em          G
Adrenaline, pulls us near

D
  Tastes like fear

Em
  Pulls us near
[Bridge] | G | Em | x3
Bm      C  
   Look up
N.C. And what do you see all of you and all of me Fluorescent and starry, some of them they surprise
C               G
I can't look it in the eyes

         Em                     Bm
Seconal, Spanish Fly, absinthe, kerosene, 

                 C
Cherry-flavoured neck and collar

                G
I can smell the sorrow on your breath

    Em
The sweat, victory, sorrow, the smell thing

D
  I've got it
[Outro]
 G             D    Em               D
                                     Aluminum tastes like fear
(I'll take you over, I'll take you there)
Em          G
Adrenaline, pulls us near

D
  Tastes like fear

Em
  Pulls us near

D
  Tastes like fear

Em
  Pulls us near

D
  Tastes like fear

Em
  Pulls us near
(Repeat and fade)