The National – Alien (Guitar)

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From the album "First Two Pages of Frankenstein" (2023) Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/0qombVfkoyakHvmYg65IUa?si=16f91fa219a24f92 Capo on 3rd fret. If you want to play without capo, you can set the "Transpose" button on +3. [Intro] | Am | | Am | F | C | Gadd11 G | [Verse 1]
Am                          F
 Try not to worry there's a voiceover

C          Gadd11      G
 Go on, go quiet for a change

Am                    F
 We can dial down the daylight a little

C                             Gadd11           G
 I think the candy blue sky's messing with our brains
[Pre-Chorus]
Am                    F
 We must have hit our heads

                      C
Don't expect familiar feelings

                           G
No one knows what to talk about

                               Dm
Just come lay down here on the couch
[Chorus]
          C
Drop down out of the clouds you're in

Em        G
 Drop down like an alien

Dm                C
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in

Em        G
 Drop down like an alien
[Post-Chorus] | Am | Fmaj7 | C | G | [Verse 2]
Am                              Fmaj7
 I'll find you something fun to wear

                              C
That goes along with all your feelings

                   G
We'll go extremely vivid

                    Am
Buttoned up and unrevealing

                       Fmaj7
I can be your nurse or something

                         C
Bring you watermelon nicotine

                     G                       Am
I can hold a swimmer here to the shore by a string
[Pre-Chorus]
                        Fmaj7
Hurry up, we don't have time

                 C
Avalanches in my mind

                           G
I'm getting buried in this dream

                         Dm
It's just as soapy as it seems
[Chorus]
          C
Drop down out of the clouds you're in

Em        G
 Drop down like an alien

Dm                C
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in

Em        G
 Drop down like an alien
[Bridge]
Am                     F
 There's this one old idea I'm having

C                        G                        Am
 Stuck in a car wash somewhere and you can't stop laughing

                          F
Off the rails and no one's coming to get us

C                          Gadd11          G
 I think I like it here, so I'm gonna let 'em forget us
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm                       C
 Hurry up, we don't have time

                 Em
Avalanches in my mind

                           G
I'm getting buried in this dream

                         F
It's just as soapy as it seems
[Chorus]
          C
Drop down out of the clouds you're in

G
 Drop down like an alien

F                 C
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in

Dm        C        G
 Drop down like an alien
[Guitar Solo] | F | C | Dm | C G | | F | C | Dm | C G | [Chorus]
F          C
 Drop down out of the clouds you're in

Dm        C        G
 Drop down like an alien

F                 C
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in

Dm        C        G     F
 Drop down like an alien