The Alien chords by Manchester Orchestra

Chords with lyrics

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Verse 1:

  A minorAm            D/F#D/F#           G+G             C majorC
e|------------------------|------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
BB|------1-----1-----1-----|------------------------|------0-----0------0------|------1-----1-----1-----|
G+G|--------2-----2-----2---|------2-----2-----2-----|--------0------0------0---|--------0-----0-----0---|
D MajorD|----2-----2-----2-----2-|----0---0-----0-----0---|----0-----0------0------0-|----2-----2-----2-----2-| x4
A augmentedA|-0----------------------|------------------------|--------------------------|-3----------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------|-2--------2-----2-----2-|-3------------------------|------------------------|

A minorAm                  D/F#D/F#
  The lights were low enough, you guessed
           G+G                 C majorC
  You swapped your conscience with your father's medication
A minorAm                  D/F#D/F#
  Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville
        G+G                  C majorC
  And on the way, you wrote out a self-made declaration

A minorAm                  D/F#D/F#
  And when you got to Pleasant Hill
          G+G              C majorC
  You forced the traffic to erase your family demons
A minorAm                 D/F#D/F#
  And made a pact with you and god
         G+G               C majorC
  If you don't move, I swear to you I'm gonna make ya


Chorus 1:

  C majorC             E minorEm            G+G               C majorC
e|-------8-----8-----8-----|-------7-----7-----7-----|-----------------------------|-------8-----8-----8-----|
BB|---------8-----8-----8---|---------8-----8-----8---|-------12-----12-----12------|---------8-----8-----8---|
G+G|---9-------9-----9-----9-|---9-------9-----9-----9-|---12----12-----12-----12----|---9-------9-----9-----9-|
D MajorD|-----10------------------|-----9-------------------|-----12-----12-----12-----12-|-----10------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------------|-7-----------------------|-10--------------------------|-------------------------|
E MajorE|-8-----------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------------|-8-----------------------|

    C majorC    E minorEm
Do you need me?
    G+G    C majorC
Do you need me?
    C majorC    E minorEm
Do you need me?
    G+G    C majorC
Do you need me?

Verse 2:

  A minorAm            D MajorD             G+G             C majorC
e|-------5-----5-----5-----|-------------------------|-------3-----3-----3-----|-------3-----3----3-----|
BB|---------5-----5-----5---|-------7-----7-----7-----|---------3-----3-----3---|---------5----5-----5---|
G+G|---5-------5-----5-----5-|---7-----7-----7-----7---|---4-------4-----4-----4-|---5-------5----5-----5-|
D MajorD|-----7-------------------|-----7-----7-----7-----7-|-----5-------------------|-----5------------------| x4
A augmentedA|-------------------------|-5-----------------------|-------------------------|-3----------------------|
E MajorE|-5-----------------------|-------------------------|-3-----------------------|------------------------|

A minorAm                D MajorD
  When the first officer arrived
          G+G                 C majorC
  It happened to be the high school bully of your brother
A minorAm            D MajorD
  When you finally recognized
         G+G                C majorC
  You felt some guilt that you had even let him touch you


A minorAm                  D MajorD
  Can you hear me, what's your name?
          G+G                C majorC
  You could not speak just laid amazed at all the damage
A minorAm                D MajorD
  As the high school's letting out
      G+G                    C majorC
  All the kids are sayin' the same thing that they used to


Chorus 2:

    C majorC   E minorEm
It's an alien
    G+G   C majorC
It's an alien
    C majorC   E minorEm
It's an alien
    G+G   C majorC
It's an alien


Interlude:

A minorAm D MajorD G+G C majorC
A minorAm D MajorD G+G C majorC


Verse 3:

A minorAm                 D MajorD
  The lights are low enough you guessed
       G+G               C majorC
  Hospital food, there's never enough medication
A minorAm               D MajorD
  The doctor asked about your ears
         G+G                 C majorC
  You said your mom said you were made from a revelation


A minorAm            D MajorD
  The revelation never scares
        G+G                  C majorC
  If you came from your drunken dad and a pair of scissors
A minorAm                D MajorD
  Were you just finally letting go?
      G+G                 C majorC
  Did you mean to take out all those people with you?


Chorus 3:

    C majorC    E minorEm
Didn't mean to
    G+G    C majorC
Didn't mean to
    C majorC    E minorEm
Didn't mean to
    G+G    C majorC
Didn't mean to

      C majorC             E minorEm
Oh I didn't mean ------------------ to
      (Take the time to learn to let you go)
      G+G         C majorC
Oh I didn't mean ---------- to
       (Don't let me go)
      C majorC             E minorEm
No I didn't mean ------------------ to
      (Take the time to learn to let you go)
      G+G          C majorC
Oh I didn't mean ----------- to
       (Never let you go)


Outro:
A minorAm G+G
A minorAm G+G

A minorAm                                 G+G
Time is here to take your last amendments and believe them on your own
A minorAm                            G+G
Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there alone
A minorAm                               G+G
Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it into stone
A minorAm                            G+G
Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here alone

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