Method Acting Cortez The Killer chords by Dave Rawlings Machine

Em
There's no beginning to the story

            Bm7
A bookshelf sinks into the sand

            C
And a language learned, forgot in turn

   G                 D/F#
Studied once again



            Em
It's a shocking bit of footage

            Bm7
Viewed on a shitty TV screen

            C
You can squint at snow and static

   G                 D/F#
To make out what it means



            Em
And keep stretching that antenna

            Bm7
Hoping that it will come clear

            C
I need some reception, a higher message

   G                 D/F#
Please tell me what to feel


Chorus:

       C       D           G      G/B
'Cause I don't know what tomorrow brings

       C       D           G      G/B
It's alive with such possibilities

       C       D           G      G/B
But I know that I feel better when I sing

   C           B7add4
Burdens are lifted from me

               Em
That's my voice rising



            Em
So T-Bone, please keep the tape rolling

            Bm7
Gil keep strumming that guitar

            C
We need a record of our failures

   G                 D/F#
We must document our love



            Em
I sat too long in my silence

            Bm7
Grown too old on my pain

            C
To shed this skin, be born again

   G                 D/F#
It starts with an ending


Chorus:

       C       D           G      G/B
And I don't know what tomorrow brings

       C       D           G      G/B
It's full of such possibilities

       C       D           G      G/B
But I know that I feel better when I sing

   C           B7add4
Burdens are lifted from me

               Em
That's my voice rising


Solo:


Bridge:

   C             Bm7
It's not a movie, no private screening

  Am7            D
This method acting—I call it living

  C              Bm7
It's like a fountain, the door is open

  Am7            D
We have a problem with no solution

  C                B7add4
But to love and to be loved


Solo:


Chorus:

       C       D           G      G/B
So thank you friends for the time we shared

       C       D           G      G/B
Your love stays with me like sunlight and air

       C       D           G      G/B
And though I truly wish I could keep hanging around here

   C           B7add4
My joy is covering me

               Em
Soon I will disappear


Solo:




          Em7
He came dancing across the water

          D
With his galleons and guns

          Am7
Looking for the new world

In the palace in the sun



          Em7
On the shore lay Montezuma

          D
With his coca leaves and pearls

          Am7
In his halls, he often wondered

The secrets of the world



          Em7
And his subjects gathered round him

          D
Like the leaves around a tree

          Am7
In their clothes of many colors

For the angry gods to see



          Em7
And the women all were beautiful

          D
And the men stood straight and strong

          Am7
They offered life in sacrifice

So that others could go on


Solo:
(over Cortez verse progression)



          Em7
Hate was just a 🏷Legend

          D
And war was never known

          Am7
The people worked together

And they lifted many stones



          Em7
Then they carried them to the flatlands

          D
But they died along the way

          Am7
And they built up with their bare hands

What we still can't do today



          Em7
And I know she's living there

          D
And she loves me to this day

          Am7
I just can't remember when

Or how I lost my way


Solo:
(back to Method Acting verse progression)