Not chords by Big Thief

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: E

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
Em


Verse 1:
C                    Em
It's not the energy reeling
         G             Em
Nor the lines in your face
         C             Em
Nor the clouds on the ceiling
         G             Em
Nor the clouds in the space

C                    Em
It's not to fall on the table
       G          Em
Not a bed in the earth
      C           Em
Not a bed in the stable
           G     Em
Nor your stable words

C              Em
Not the open writhing
       G          Em
Not a cry in the air
      C          Em
Not a girl I'm seeing
          G         Em
With her long black hair

C                Em
Not the formless being
          G      Em
Nor the furnace glow
          C             Em
Nor the blood of your bleeding
         G        Em
As you try to let go


Chorus:
C
It's not the room

Not beginning
Em
Not the crowd

Not winning
G
Not the planet that's spinning
C
Not a ruse, not heat
Em
Not the fire lapping up the creek
G
Not food, not to eat


Verse 2:
C                    Em
Not the need of your sigh
           G      Em
Nor your spine tattoo
           C       Em
Nor your shimmery eye
         G         Em
Nor the wet of the dew

C                    Em
It's not the warm illusion
          G          Em
Or the crack in the plate
          C           Em
Nor the breadth of confusion
          G           Em
Nor the starkness of slate


Chorus:
C
It's not the room

Not beginning
Em
Not the crowd

Not winning
G
Not the planet that's spinning
C
Not a ruse, not heat
Em
Not the fire lapping up the creek
G
Not food, not to eat


Verse 3:
C                     Em
Not what you really wanted
         G          Em
Nor the mess in your purse
        C            Em
Nor the bed that is haunted
          G           Em
With the blanket of thirst
C                 Em
Not the hunger revealing
         G          Em
Nor the ricochet in the cave
         C            Em
Nor the hand that is healing
         G        Em
Nor the nameless grave


Chorus:
C
It's not the room

Not beginning
Em
Not the crowd

Not winning
G
Not the planet that's spinning
C
Not a ruse, not heat
Em
Not the fire lapping up the creek
G
Not food, not to eat
C
Not to die

Not dying
Em
Not to laugh

Not lying
G
(?)Not to vacate wilderness fighting
C
It's not the room

Not beginning
Em
Not the crowd

Not winning
G
Not the planet that's spinning