From a Balance Beam chords by Bright Eyes

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Verse 1
D 
 (D major) There's a man holding a megaphone
A 
D 
He must have been  (A major) the voice of God  (D major) 
A 
D 
The  (A major) bystand (D major) ers claimed
they saw angels
A 
Flying up  (A major) and down the block
G 
Well, they must have  (G major) been
attached to wires
Bm 
I've seen one  (B minor) laying in
A 
the lawn with a broken  (A major) arm
So I called 911
D 
Well, that's one  (D major) less founded opinion
A 
One more cause  (A major) for a dispute
D 
 (D major) So the street filled like a basin
A 
Up with cam (A major) eras and their crews
G 
 (G major) And they washed away the rumors
D 
Bm 
Leav (D major) ing  (B minor) just the concrete truth
A 
It was a spec (A major) tacle
No, I, I mean a miracle
D 
So I  (D major) fell like a girl from
A 
a bal (A major) ance beam
D 
A gym (D major) nasium of eyes,
G 
all are hold (G major) ing on to me
I lifted one foot to cross the other
Bm 
and I felt  (B minor) myself slipping
A 
It was a small  (A major) mistake
G 
Sometimes that's all it takes  (G major) 

Verse 2
Bm 
G 
 (B minor) Now I'm staring at my wrist  (G major) 
A 
Hoping that the timing is right  (A major) 
D 
When the planets will align  (D major) 
G 
There will be no planets to align  (G major) 
Just the carcass of the sun
Gm 
 (G minor) With little painted marbles
G 
Spin (G major) ning senseless through
D 
an endless black sky  (D major) 
A 
 (A major) And so it never started And

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Verse 3

it will never stop

Just like I am and you are

Verse 4
D 
It was in a foreign  (D major) hotel bathtub
A 
D 
I bap (A major) tized myself in change  (D major) 
And one by one, I drowned all
A 
G 
A 
of the people  (A major) I  (G major) had been  (A major) 
G 
 (G major) And I emerged to find the
Bm 
parallels were few (B minor) er
I was cleansed
A 
I looked  (A major) in the mirror and
someone new was there
D 
But I was as  (D major) helpless as a chess piece
A 
D 
When I was lifted  (A major) up by someone's hand  (D major) 
And delivered from the corner
A 
My enemies  (A major) had got me in
G 
 (G major) But in all of my salvation I still
Bm 
felt  (B minor) imprisoned inside
A 
That  (A major) holding cell that is myself
D 
A 
So I wait  (D major) for the day when I'll hear  (A major) the key
D 
A 
As it turns  (D major) in the lock  (A major) and
G 
the guard  (G major) will say to me
A 
G 
 (A major) "Oh, my  (G major) patient prisoner,
Bm 
you have waited for this  (B minor) day and finally
A 
You are free,  (A major) you are free,
you are freezing"
G 
Now  (G major) 

Verse 5
Bm 
G 
 (B minor) I'm staring at the sun (G major) 
A 
Waiting for it to explode  (A major) 
D 
Because a day is gonna come  (D major) 
G 
Don't know when, but it will come  (G major) 
And we'll finally know the way
Gm 
G 
 (G minor) out of here  (G major) 

Verse 6
G 
And I'll throw  (G major) away this wrinkled map
And my chart of stars and compass,
cracked
And I'll climb that tree
all wet with sap
To avoid the hungry beasts below
I'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing
Of a graveyard grey
and a garden green
And we won't have to worry no more
No, we won't have to wonder again
About how this song or story ends
About how this song and story will end
D 
D 
 (D major)  (D major) 