Cleanse Song chords by Bright Eyes

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: A

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
         D               D7            G            D
Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
      G          D        A
It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow
        D       D7           G         D
See the new pyramids down in old Manhattan
         G         D                     A
From the roof of a friend's I watched an empire ending
         Bm                D
Heard it loud and long the river's Om
     G                A
Time marching on to a madman's drum

Instrumental Break 1:
D D7 G D G D A


Verse 2:
         D               D7              G         D
Don't forget what you've learned all you give is returned
       G            D             A
And if life seems absurd what you need is some laughter
      D         D7          G            D
And a season to sleep and a place to get clean
      G       D              A
Maybe Los Angeles, somewhere no one's expecting


Chorus 1:
     G
On a detox walk through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalk
                             D
Someone wrote in red, "start over"
     G
So I muffled my scream on an Oxnard beach
        F#m               Bm          A
Full of fever dreams that scare you sober
A
Into saltless dinners


Instrumental Break 2:
D D7 G D G D A


Verse 3:
         D              D7              G              D
Take the fruit from the tree, break the skin with your teeth
      G          D           A
Is it bitter or sweet? All depends on your timing
       D          D7              G             D
Like a meeting of chance with the train station glance
     G             D         A
Many lifetimes had past in a instant reminded


Chorus 2:
     G
Of a millstone house in a seaside town
                                      D
When your heart gave out in a mission bed
G
So your wife gave birth to a funeral dirge
       F#m                 Bm        A
As you woke up purged as a wailing infant
A
In Krug Thep, Thailand


Instrumental Break 3:
D D7 G D G D A
D D7 G D G D A
Bm D G A

Outro:
         D               D7            G            D
Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
      G          D            A
It is older than Rome and our joy and our sorrow

D D7 G D G D A