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If the Brakeman Turns My Way chords by
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Key: B major•
Verse 1
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When panic grips your body and your
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heart is a hummingbird

Raven thoughts blacken your mind
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until you're breathing in reverse
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All your friends and sedatives mean well,
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but make it worse
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Every reassurance just
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magnifies the doubt
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Better find yourself a place
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to level out
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Verse 2
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Got a cricket for a conscience,
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always looks the other way

A cocaine soul starts seeming like
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an empty cabaret
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Hey, where have all the dancers gone?
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Now the music doesn't play
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Tried to listen to the river but you
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couldn't shut your mouth
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Better take a little time to level out
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Verse 3
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I never thought of running
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My feet just led the way
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Verse 4
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Mixed up signals
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Bullet train

Cars are switched out
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in the crazy rain
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I could meet you any place
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If the brakeman turns

my way
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Verse 5
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All this automatic writing
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I have tried to understand

From a psychedelic angel who was
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tugging on my hand
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Em
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It's an infinite coincidence
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but it doesn't form a plan
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So I'm headed for New England
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or the Paris of the South
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Going to find myself somewhere
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to level out
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Verse 6
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Are your brothels full, oh Babylon,
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with merry middlemen?

Never peer out of their periscopes from
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those deep opium dens
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All this death must need a counterweight,
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always someone born again
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First a mother bathes her child,
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then the other way around
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Em
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The scales always find a way
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to level out
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Verse 7
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Am
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I tried to pass for nothing
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But my dreams gave me away
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Verse 8
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Mixed up signals
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Bullet train
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People snuffed out in the brutal rain
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I could live to any age
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Em
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If the brakeman turns my way
Verse 9
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Am
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It is an old world,
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it's hard to remember
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Bm
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Bm
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Like a dime store mystery
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Em
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I'm a repeat first
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Bm
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time offender
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Who has rewritten history
Verse 10
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Mixed up tea leaves
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Phantom pain
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Fuzzy logic in the the crazy rain
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Getting better every day
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Em
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If the brakeman turns my way
Verse 11
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Mixed up signals
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Bullet train

Cars are switched out in
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the blinding rain
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He'll be smiling as he seals my fate
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When the brakeman turns my way
Outro 1
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Chords

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  • C

  • D

  • Em

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  • Bm

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Capo: 4

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The original key of If the Brakeman Turns My Way by Bright Eyes is B major.

The primary chords used in If the Brakeman Turns My Way are B, E, F#, G#m, C#m, D#m.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 4 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like B, E, F#, G#m, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of If the Brakeman Turns My Way is approximately 79 beats per minute.

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