Myths Made Plain chords by Bad Books

Chords with lyrics

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

Difficulty: Novice

Play everything with power chords:

  G+G A augmentedA D MajorD BB or BB E MajorE or E MajorE F#F#
e|-x-x-x-x----x-x----x--x----------|
BB|-x-x-x-x----x-x----x--x----------|
G+G|-x-x-7-4----x-x----9--x----------|
D MajorD|-5-7-7-4----9-2----9--4----------|
A augmentedA|-5-7-5-2----9-2----7--4----------|
E MajorE|-3-5-x-x----7-0----x--2----------|

Verse 1:
          A augmentedA   D MajorD   G+G
If you're wondering how we landed here
           A augmentedA     D MajorD    G+G
You were watching the waves and drinking beer
         A augmentedA   D MajorD    BB
You don't even remember standing up
        E MajorE
Truly, I don't either


Verse 2:
         A augmentedA   D MajorD    G+G
At some point you waded to your waist
            A augmentedA    D MajorD      G+G
As you slipped further out the stakes were raised
         A augmentedA      D MajorD    BB
Finally you were surrounded, and for what?
          E MajorE
A augmentedA water darker and deeper


Chorus 1:
  G+G    A augmentedA
In 1997 I became myself
  D MajorD              G+G
And 20 minutes later I began to melt
  G+G              A augmentedA
The cycle I get used to in the course of time
  D MajorD             G+G
The shifting definitions that comprise a life
  G+G            A augmentedA          D MajorD
The people I become and the people I don't recognize

Verse 3:
          A augmentedA  D MajorD      G+G
If you're wondering who arranged the mess
           A augmentedA    D MajorD    G+G
Some exceptions were made to grant, I guess
           A augmentedA    D MajorD  BB
While we all let the peak of the parade
          E MajorE
The underbelly went lethal


Chorus 2:
  G+G       A augmentedA
In 2007 tried to build a bridge
  D MajorD               G+G
Between how I was living and how I could live
 G+G              A augmentedA
I tricked myself into thinking I'd done enough
D MajorD             G+G
Once I got across I didn't blow it up
G+G             A augmentedA           D MajorD
Yeah, I closed some lanes, all it really takes is one


Bridge:
    E MajorE     F#F#     G+G
Opening to tear apart all your works
        D MajorD     E MajorE     F#F#      G+G
So fine you are, delicate un-achieve all your half-philosophy
D MajorD      E MajorE      F#F#       G+G
Style points, blind belief a whirling perpetuity
D MajorD     E MajorE          F#F#      G+G
The ocean warm that knows you did the same before


Chorus 3:
   G+G      A augmentedA
So in 2017 we did away with facts
D MajorD           G+G
All negotiation with a battle axe
  G+G          A augmentedA
The gruesome ideology is center shame
D MajorD           G+G
American identity was laid to waste
G+G
We're backlit and exposed
A augmentedA              BB  D MajorD E MajorE
Sugar stripped and it's made clean


Outro:
  G+G
The people I become
  A augmentedA           D MajorD
The people I can't replicate