Chords with lyrics
- Capo on 4th
- Difficulty: Beginner
"The Alien"
Intro:
E minorEm A augmentedA
The lights were low enough, you guessed
D MajorD G+G
You swapped your conscience with your fathers medication
E minorEm A augmentedA
Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville
D MajorD G+G
And on the way wrote out a self-made declaration
E minorEm A augmentedA
And when you got to Pleasant Hill
D MajorD G+G
You forced the traffic to erase your family demons
E minorEm A augmentedA
And made a pact with you and God
D MajorD G+G
If you don't move I swear to you I'm gonna make ya
Chorus:
G+G B minorBm
Do you need me?
D MajorD G+G
Do you need me?
G+G B minorBm
Do you need me?
D MajorD G+G
Do you need me?
Verse 2:
E minorEm A augmentedA
When the first officer arrived
D MajorD G+G
It happened to be the high school bully of your brother
E minorEm A augmentedA
When you finally recognized
D MajorD G+G
You felt some guilt that you had even let him touch you
E minorEm A augmentedA
Can you hear me? What's your name?
D MajorD G+G
You could not speak just laid amazed at all the damage
E minorEm A augmentedA
And as the high school's letting out
D MajorD G+G
All the kids saying the same thing that they used to
Chorus:
G+G B minorBm
It's an a-lien
D MajorD G+G
It's an a-lien
G+G B minorBm
It's an a-lien
D MajorD G+G
It's an a-lien
Verse 3:
E minorEm A augmentedA
The lights are low enough, you guessed
D MajorD G+G
Hospital food, there's never enough medication
E minorEm A augmentedA
The doctor asked about your ears
D MajorD G+G
You said your mom said you were made from a revelation
E minorEm A augmentedA
The revelation never scares
D MajorD G+G
If you came from your drunken dad and a pair of scissors
E minorEm A augmentedA
You just finally letting go?
D MajorD G+G
Did you mean to take out all those people with you?
Chorus:
G+G B minorBm
Didn't mean to
D MajorD G+G
Didn't mean to
G+G B minorBm
Didn't mean to
D MajorD G+G
Didn't mean to
Chorus:
G+G B minorBm
Oh I didn't mean to (Oh I didn't take the time to learn to let you go)
D MajorD G+G
Oh I didn't mean to (Never letting go)
G+G B minorBm
No I didn't mean to (Oh I didn't take the time to learn to let you go)
D MajorD G+G
Oh I didn't mean to (Never letting go)
Interlude:
E minorEm | E minorEm | D MajorD | D MajorD : (2x)
Outro:
E minorEm D MajorD
Time is here to take your last amendments and believe them on your own
E minorEm D MajorD
Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there alone
E minorEm D MajorD
Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it into stone
E minorEm D MajorD
Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here alone
"The Sunshine"
Verse 1:
D MajorD E minorEm
I already know that I don't already know
D MajorD
You are the sunlight
E minorEm
I don't really care if you don't understand
D MajorD
You are the moonlight
E minorEm D MajorD
And that's alright, alright with me
E minorEm
Oh, that's alright
Verse 2:
D MajorD E minorEm
I don't really mind if you don't really mind
D MajorD
You are the sunshine
E minorEm
You don't have to know if you don't wanna know
D MajorD
You are the moonlight
E minorEm D MajorD
Oh and that's alright, alright with me
E minorEm D MajorD
Oh that's alright, alright with me
E minorEm D MajorD
Oh and that's alright, alright with me
E minorEm D MajorD
Oh that's alright, alright with me
E minorEm D MajorD
Oh and that's alright, alright with me
E minorEm
Oh that's alright
"The Grocery"
Intro:
E minorEm | E minorEm | D MajorD | D MajorD : (2x)
Verse 1:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
"I don't know where I'm going but I'm going anyways"
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
So you leave the apartment, grab the gun under the bed
Pre-Chorus:
E minorEm
I want to reach above the paradox where nobody can see
D MajorD
Want to hold a light to paradigm and strip it to its feet
E minorEm
I want to feel the way my father felt, is it easier for me?
D MajorD
I want to know if there's a higher love oblivious to me
Interlude:
E minorEm | E minorEm | D MajorD | D MajorD :
Verse 2:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
So you walk in the grocery and you unload several rounds
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
"Don't you dare move a muscle", cardboard cutout ads
Pre-Chorus:
E minorEm
I want to reach above the paradox where nobody can see
D MajorD
Want to hold a light to paradigm and strip it to its feet
E minorEm
I want to feel the way your father felt, was it easy for belief?
D MajorD
I want to know if there's a higher love he saw that I can't see
Chorus:
A augmentedA
Looking back, it's obvious now
E minorEm
You believe him or you don't
Interlude:
E minorEm | E minorEm | D MajorD | D MajorD : (2x)
Verse 3:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
So you load up your pistol and you press it to your lips
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA
And you squeeze on the trigger, all it does is clicks
Pre-Chorus:
E minorEm
I want to reach above the para-blind where nobody could see
D MajorD
Want to hold a light to paradise and see if I could sleep
E minorEm
I want to feel the way our fathers felt when it swept them off their feet
D MajorD
I want to know about that higher love you saw that can't be seen
Chorus:
A augmentedA
The only obvious equation
E minorEm
You believe it or you don't
Bridge:
D MajorD E minorEm
I've been trying to find the right way to get out of here
D MajorD E minorEm
I've been trying to find the right way to get out of here
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA E minorEm
O-o-oh, this is the only way to go
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA A augmentedA
O-o-oh, this is the only way-ay
Outro:
E minorEm | E minorEm | D MajorD | D MajorD : (6x)