Sturgill Simpson – Turtles All The Way Down (Guitar)

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Versions (2)

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[Verse 1]
          E 
I've seen Jesus play with flames, in a lake of fire

                    A     Asus4   A     Asus4 
That I was standing in

        B7 
Met the devil in Seattle

                                       E        Esus4   E        Esus4
And spent nine months inside the lion's... den 

    E 
Met Buddha yet another time

                                       A    Asus4   A      Asus4 
And he showed me the glowing light within 

B7 
But I swear that God is there, every time I glare

                         E            Esus4    E        Esus4 
Into the eyes of my best... friend 
[Refrain]
A 
Says my son, it's all been done

                                     E        Esus4   E        Esus4 
Someday you're gonna wake up old and... gray

   A 
So go and try to have some fun, showing warmth to everyone 

                                          B7    
You meet and greet... and cheat along the way

[Refrain Fill]  
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[Verse 2]
          E 
There's a gateway in our minds that leads somewhere out there

                A      Asus4   A      Asus4 
Far beyond this plane 

      B7 
Where reptile aliens made of light

                                E      Esus4   E      Esus4 
Cut you open, pull out all your pain 

        E 
Tell me how you make illegal

                                  A       Asus4   A      Asus4 
Something that we all make in our brain

     B7 
Some say you might go crazy

                                 E         Esus4   E    Esus4 
Then again, it might make you go... sane 
[Refrain]
A 
Every time I... take a look... inside that old and... fabled book 

    A 
I'm blinded and... reminded of...

                                       E    Esus4   E    Esus4 
The pain caused by some old man in the sky

A 
Marijuana... LSD... psilocybin... DMT...

A 
They all changed... the way I see... 

    A                                           B7   
But love's the only thing... that ever saved my life 

[Refrain Fill]  
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A|-2-0-----------------|
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[Outro]
  E 
So, don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes or fairy tales of blood and wine 

     A               A/G#         F#m 
It's turtles all the way down the line 

      A 
So to each their own til' we go home... to other realms our souls must roam 

A                                                 B7        E 
To and through... the myth that... we all call... space and time