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My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion Explained chords by The Flaming Lips

  • G

  • C

  • Am

  • Em

  • Bm

    2
  • Dm

  • D

  • F

Verse 1
G
And this next track is called "My
C
Am
Cosmic Autumn Rebellion"
C
G
Em
It kinda feels as sort of defiant,
G
sort of manifesto
C
Sort of feeling to the whole beginning here
Am
G
And this song began its
life and its inspiration
Bm
Em
As a cord sequence that
C
Steven had come up with
Em
Dm
C
Em
And we used it, we still use it as
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Em
Bm
sort of introduction music and
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Dm
Mostly recently we've been using it
C
for me to get into that giant space bubble
G
Em
And sort of walk on top of that crowd
in, yeah
Verse 2
Em
It's called "ta- da"
in that format
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Em
C
Oh, exactly, the word ta- da is
Em
D
G
something like a magician uses it
Em
And I think hearing it every other night
when we were playing
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Am
I thought 'Oh gosh, that really has a
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G
trimuphant, sorta epicness about it'
And I think before too long, I asked Steven
Em
To see if he could come up with
C
some kinda melody
Perhaps a singable melody that I could
Em
put some sort framework
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Em
G
Of philosophical rant on top of that
Am
C
And I think it changed keys a couple of times, but,

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Verse 3
F
C
Em
yes
Just to see what suits your voice
G
the best, I think sometimes
Bm
Exactly, and as we went, the arrangement
would sometimes shift radically
Em
I think in the beginning we were using some verty
Am
bombastic timpanis and cymbals
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F
And it was really an outrageous kind of
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Dm
Ben Hur standards that we're going for
G
But I think in the end it's more powerful
almost with less going on
Dm
C
And it still feels like I'm sort of standing on a mountain top,
Dm
G
C
screaming the absolute truth
Verse 4
G
Absolutely It goes like
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Em
this
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