Method Acting chords by Bright Eyes

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Verse 1
Em 
There's no beginning to the story
Bm 
A bookshelf sinks into the sand
C 
And a language learned and forgot in turn
G 
Is studied once again
D 
Em 
It's a shocking bit of footage
Bm 
Viewed from a shitty TV screen
C 
You can squint at it
Just snowy static
G 
D 
To make out the meaning
G 
Em 
And keep on stretching the antenna
Bm 
Hoping that it will come clear
C 
We need some reception
A higher message
G 
D 
Just tell us what to fear
Am 
'Cause I

Verse 2
D 
don't know what
Am 
Em 
tomorrow brings
Am 
D 
Em 
It's alive with such possibilities
Am 
D 
All I know is I  feel better
C 
when I sing
B 
Burdens are lifted from me

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Interlude 1

That's my voice rising

Verse 3
Em 
So Michael, please keep the tape rolling
Bm 
Boys keep strumming those guitars
C 
We need a record of our failures
Cm 
G 
D 
Yes, we must document our love
Em 
I have sat too long in my silence
Bm 
I have grown too old in my pain
C 
To shed this skin, be born again
G 
D 
Oh, it starts with an ending
Am 
D 
So thank you friends for
Em 
the time we shared
Am 
My love stays with you
D 
Am 
Em 
like sunlight and air
Am 
D 
And though I truly wish I could
G 
C 
keep hanging around here
B 
Bm 
My joy is covering me, soon I will disappear
Em 

Interlude 2

Verse 4
Bm 
It's
C 
G 
C 
not a movie
G 
Am 
No private screening
This method acting
D 
Well, I  call it living, yeah
C 
It's like a fountain
G 
Bm 
A door has opened
Am 
We have a problem
D 
With no solution but to love
C 
B 
And to be loved

Verse 5
Am 
D 
Em 
So I've made peace with the fallen leaves
Am 
D 
Em 
I see their same fate in my own body
Am 
D 
But I won't be frightened when I'm
C 
awoken from this dream
B 
And return to that which gave
Em 
birth to me
Bm 

Verse 6
C 
D 
G 
Gave birth to me, gave birth to me,
Am 
Em 
Bm 
gave birth to me
C 
And the story goes,
G 
and the story goes
Em 
C 
Am 
And  it goes on and on and on and on
C 
Bm 
It's going on and on and on and on
D 
C 
D 
It's going on and on and on and on
Bm 
Em 
It's going on and on and on and on
D 
It's going on and on an d on and on
Bm 
It's going on and on and on and on
D 
C 
It's going on and on and on and on and
D 
C 
On and on and on and on and on
B 