From a Balance Beam chords by Bright Eyes

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

Verse 2
Bm 
G 
Now I'm staring at my wrist
A 
Hoping that the timing is right
D 
When the planets will align
G 
There will be no planets to align
Just the carcass of the sun
Gm 
With little painted marbles
G 
Spinning senseless through
D 
an endless black sky
A 
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 hotel bathtub
A 
D 
I baptized myself in change
And one by one, I drowned all
A 
G 
A 
of the people I had been
G 
And I emerged to find the
Bm 
parallels were fewer
I was cleansed
A 
I looked in the mirror and
someone new was there
D 
But I was as helpless as a chess piece
A 
D 
When I was lifted up by someone's hand
And delivered from the corner
A 
My enemies had got me in
G 
But in all of my salvation I still
Bm 
felt imprisoned inside
A 
That holding cell that is myself
D 
A 
So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key
D 
A 
As it turns in the lock and
G 
the guard will say to me
A 
G 
"Oh, my patient prisoner,
Bm 
you have waited for this day and finally
A 
You are free, you are free,
you are freezing"
G 
Now

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

Verse 6
G 
And I'll throw 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 