Going for the Gold chords by Bright Eyes
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Intro 1
(G major) (E minor) (D major) (G major) (E minor) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (G major) (E minor) (G major) (E minor) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (G major)
(E minor) (B minor) (E minor) (G major) (D major)
There's a (G major) voice on the phone
Verse 1
(D major) Telling (G major) what had happened,
Some kind of (E minor) confusion
More like a (D major) disaster.
And it wondered (G major)
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Verse 2
(E minor) how (G major) you
(D major) (E minor) were left (G major) unaffected,
But you had (E minor) no knowledge.
No, the chem (G major) icals covered (D major) you.
So (G major) a jury was (D major) formed
Verse 3
As more (G major) liquor was poured.
No need for (E minor) conviction,
They're not thirst (G major) ing (D major) for justice.
But (G major) I slept with the lies (D major) I keep
(G major) inside my head.
Verse 4
I found out I (E minor) was guilty.
I found (G major) out I (D major) was guilty.
But I won't (G major) be around (D major) for
the (G major) sentencing,
Cause I'm leav (E minor) ing
On the next (D major) airplane.
Verse 5
And though I know (C major) that my (D major) actions are
im (G major) possible to jus (B minor) tify
They seem (C major) adequate to (D major) fill up my time.
(G major) But if I could (C major) talk to (D major) myself
Like I was (B minor)
Verse 6
someone (E minor) else,
Well then may (C major) be I could
(D major) take your (G major) advice, (B minor)
(E minor) And I wouldn't act (C major) like such an (D major) asshole all the time. (G major)
(E minor) (G major) (D major) (G major)
Interlude 1
(E minor) (B minor) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (G major) (E minor) (D major)
There's a film (G major)
Verse 7
on (D major) the (G major) wall,
(D major) Makes the (G major) people look small
Who are sitting (E minor) beside it,
All con (G major) sumed in (D major) the drama.
Verse 8
They must re (G major) turn to their lives (D major) once
the (G major) hero has died.
They will drive to (E minor) the office
Stopping somewhere (D major) for coffee,
Where the folk (G major) singers,
(E minor) poets (D major) and (G major) playwrights convene,
Verse 9
Dispensing (E minor) their wisdom,
Oh dear amateur (D major) orators.
They will de (G major) tail
Verse 10
their pain
(D major) In some (G major) standard refrain.
They will recite their sadness (E minor)
Like it's some kind (D major) of contest.
Verse 11
Well, if (F sharp major) it is, I think (B minor) I am winning it,
All beaming (G major) with confidence
As I make (A major) my final lap.
The gold medal (F sharp major) gleams
So hang (B minor) it around my
Verse 12
neck
Cause I am (G major) deserving it:
The champion of (A major) idiots.
But a (C major) kid carries
Verse 13
his (D major) walkman on
that (G major) long bus ride to Omaha. (B minor)
I know (C major) a girl who cries when
(D major) she practices violin.
(G major) Cause each note (C major) sounds (D major) so pure,
it just (B minor) cuts in (E minor) to her,
And then the melody (C major) comes
(D major) pouring out her (G major) (B minor) (E minor) eyes.
Verse 14
(E minor) Now to (C major) me, everything else,
(D major) it just sounds like (G major) a (D major) (E minor) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (E minor) (G major) (E minor) (G major) (D major) lie
(G major)
Going for the Gold
Bright Eyes
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