Before Machines chords by Anna Tivel

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
E minorEm   G+G   E minorEm   G+G
E minorEm   G+G   E minorEm   G+G


Verse 1:
E minorEm             G+G
You and I are climbing in a canyon
A minorAm                 C majorC
Lightning struck it once before machines
E minorEm              G+G
Holidays are nothing to these long yellow clouds
A minorAm              C majorC
Lying down like girls in magazines

Instrumental:
G+G   C majorC   E minorEm   E minorEm


Verse 2:
E minorEm                G+G
Hiding out behind the swings and statues
    A minorAm                 C majorC
You're tired of running round and jumping rope
E minorEm                  G+G
Looking through the boards up at the schoolhouse
A minorAm                C majorC
Spitting on our hands we made an oath


Chorus:
    G+G      C majorC     E minorEm
It's a long, it's a long time coming
    G+G      C majorC     G+G
It's a long, it's a long hard time


Instrumental:
E minorEm   G+G   E minorEm   G+G


Verse 3:
E minorEm              G+G
Came upon a kind man in this slow town
   A minorAm             C majorC
He's gentle as a heartbeat in a crowd
  E minorEm             G+G
But I am growing lawless in his good arms
A minorAm                C majorC
Drawing blood and clawing my way out

Verse 4:
E minorEm               G+G
And I am out here spinning on a clothes line
    A minorAm                C majorC
There's nothing now that moves me but the wind
  E minorEm               G+G
And I am crying "come out here and find me
A minorAm                   C majorC
Please come shake me down and bring me in"


Chorus:
    G+G      C majorC     E minorEm
It's a long, it's a long time coming
    G+G      C majorC     G+G
It's a long, it's a long hard time
    G+G      C majorC     E minorEm
It's a long, it's a long time coming
    G+G      C majorC     G+G
It's a long, it's a long hard time


Instrumental:
A minorAm   G+G   A minorAm   G+G
A minorAm   G+G   A minorAm   E minorEm


Verse 5:
E minorEm                 G+G
And I believe the news has made me wreckless
 A minorAm               C majorC
I cannot keep from walking after dark
 E minorEm               G+G
I wanna see the places that were mentioned
  A minorAm               C majorC
To see a map of all the brightest stars


Verse 6:
E minorEm              G+G
We can hang our banner on the hillside
   A minorAm                C majorC
Yeah we can touch the sun and turn the soil
E minorEm              G+G
We can own the oceans and the saltmines
  A minorAm                C majorC
And look out on it all and still want more


Chorus:
    G+G      C majorC     E minorEm
It's a long, it's a long time coming
    G+G      C majorC     G+G
It's a long, it's a long hard time
    G+G      C majorC     E minorEm
It's a long, it's a long time coming
    G+G      C majorC     G+G
It's a long, it's a long hard time


Outro:
G+G   C majorC   E minorEm   E minorEm
G+G   C majorC   G+G