Myths Made Plain chords by Bad Books

• Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Play everything with power chords:

   G A D B or B E or E  F#
e|-x-x-x-x----x-x----x--x----------|
B|-x-x-x-x----x-x----x--x----------|
G|-x-x-7-4----x-x----9--x----------|
D|-5-7-7-4----9-2----9--4----------|
A|-5-7-5-2----9-2----7--4----------|
E|-3-5-x-x----7-0----x--2----------|

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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