Oracular Spectacular chords by MGMT

Chords with lyrics

Just a compilation of the chords to one of my favorite albums, no real credit to me.

1. Time To Pretend

INTRO
E MajorE|--5-5-5-5-3-2-3-5-5-5-5-3-2-3-|
BB|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--|
G+G|------------------------------|
D MajorD|------------------------------|
A augmentedA|------------------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------|

WEE TUNE
E MajorE|-----------2-2------|
BB|-5-3-2--------------|
G+G|------4-2-----------| x 5
D MajorD|--------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------|

D MajorD
I'm feeling rough I'm feeling raw I'm in the prime of my life.
D MajorD
Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives.
D MajorD
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars.
D MajorD
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.

PRE-CHORUS
G+G
This is our decision to live fast and die young.
                     D MajorD
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun
G+G
Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
                        D MajorD
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?

CHORUS 1
F# minorF#m
Forget about our mothers and our friends.
    D MajorD
We were fated to pretend.
    D MajorD
       to pretend.
    D MajorD
We were fated to pretend.
    D MajorD
       to pretend.

VERSE 2
D MajorD
I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms.
D MajorD
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world.
D MajorD
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home.
D MajorD
Yeah I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.

PRE-CHORUS
G+G
But there is really nothing, nothing we can do.
                         D MajorD
Love must be forgotten. Life can always start up anew.
G+G
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce,
                           D MajorD
we'll find some more models, Everything must run its course.

CHORUS
F# minorF#m
We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end.
    D MajorD
We were fated to pretend.
    D MajorD
       to pretend.
    D MajorD
We were fated to pretend.
    D MajorD
       to pretend.

2. Weekend Wars

G+G
Evil S I yes to find a shore,
FF
A augmentedA beach that doesn't quiver anymore,
FF
Where we can crush some plants to paint my walls,
      FF
And I won't try to fight in the weekend wars

G+G
Was I? I was too lazy to bathe
FF
Or paint or write or try to make a change.
FF
Now I can shoot a gun to kill my lunch
      FF
And I don't have to love or think too much

A#A#
Instant battle plans written on the sidewalk
A#A#
Mental mystics in a twisted metal car
C majorC
Tried to amplify the sound of light and love

(Instead of just playing a C majorC at the end here,
you can match the sound of MGMT a little better if
you play the riff below. When you finish it, go right
into the DmDm of the next verse.)

e|--------------------|
BB|--------------------|
G+G|--5---5---5---5-----|
D MajorD|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5----|
A augmentedA|3---1---------------|
E MajorE|--------5---3-------|

G+G
Christ is cursed of faders and maders
   FF
Might even take a knife to split a hair
FF
Or even scare the children off my lawn
     FF
Giving us time to make the makeshift bombs

G+G
Every mess invested was a score
  FF
We couldn't use computers anymore
     FF
But it's difficult to win unless you're bored,
       FF
And you might have to plan for the weekend wars


A#A#
Try to break my heart I'll drive to Arizona.
A#A#
It might take 100 years to grow an arm
A augmentedA
I'll sit and listen to the sound of sand and cold
A#A#
Twisted diamond heart, I'm the weekend warrior
A#A#
My predictions are the only things I have
C majorC
I can amplify the sound of light and love

(Here there is a similar riff as before. I strum or pick this
depending on how intense I want it to sound. Again, go right into
the next part after finishing this.)

e|--------------------|
BB|--------------------|
G+G|--5---5---5---5--5--|
D MajorD|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--|
A augmentedA|3---1------------x--|
E MajorE|--------5---4----3--|

A#A#
I'm a curse and I'm a sound,

When I open up my mouth,
             FF
There's a reason I don't win,
          C majorC
I don't know how to begin
           A#A#
I'm a curse and I'm a sound,

When I open up my mouth,
             FF
There's a reason I don't win,
          C majorC
I don't know how to begin

           A#A#
I'm a curse and I'm a sound,

When I open up my mouth,
             FF
There's a reason I don't win,
          C majorC
I don't know how to begin

3. The Youth!

A augmentedA
This is a call of arms to live and love and sleep together
A augmentedA
We could flood the streets with love or light or heat whatever
FF
Lock the parents out, cut a rug, twist and shout
Bb majorBb
Wave your hands, Make it rain
A augmentedA
For stars will rise again.

A augmentedA
The youth is starting to change
  C majorC
Are you starting to change?
   FF
Are you together, together, together, together?
(repeat)

4. Electric Feel
Tabbed by: Alina37


Chords Used:

	Cm7(v2)

e|-------3--------------3--------------4--------------6--------------8------|
BB|-------4--------------3--------------4--------------6--------------8------|
G+G|-------3--------------3--------------5--------------7--------------8------|
D MajorD|-------5--------------5--------------6--------------8--------------8------|
A augmentedA|-------3--------------5--------------6--------------8--------------10-----|
E MajorE|-------x--------------3--------------4--------------6--------------8------|


Intro: AbAb


AbAb
All along the western front
AbAb
People line up to receive
AbAb
She got the power in her hand
  AbAb
To shock you like you won't believe
Saw her in the Amazon
With the voltage running through her skin
Standing there with nothing on
She gonna teach me how to swim

-Pause-

    AbAb
I said ooh girl
AbAb
Shock me like an electric eel
AbAb
Baby girl
AbAb
Turn me on with your electric feel

I said ooh girl
Shock me like an electric eel
Baby girl
Turn me on with your electric feel

All along the eastern shore
Put your circuits in the sea
This is what the world is for
Making electricity
You can feel it in your mind
Oh you can do it all the time
Plug it in and change the world
You are my electric girl

I said ooh girl
Shock me like an electric eel
Baby girl
Turn me on with your electric feel

I said ooh girl
Shock me like an electric eel
Baby girl
Turn me on with your electric feel


Interlude: AbAb
Ab


      AbAb
Do what you feel now
     AbAb
Electric feel now
      AbAb
Do what you feel now
     AbAb
Electric feel now
Do what you feel now
Electric feel now
Do what you feel now
Electric feel now
Do what you feel now
Electric feel now

5. Kids
(Intro)
D MajorD x4

(Verse)
C majorC
You were a child
          D MajorD
Crawling on your knees toward him
C majorC
Making momma so proud
C majorC
But your voice is too loud
         D MajorD
We like to watch you laughing
C majorC
Picking insects off of plants
D MajorD
No time to think of consequences

(Chorus)
C majorC
Control yourself
          D MajorD
Take only what you need from it
D MajorD
A augmentedA family of trees wanting to be haunted (?)

(Repeat chorus)

(Verse)
The water is warm
But it's sending me shivers
A augmentedA baby is born
Crying out for attention
Memories fade
Like looking through a fogged mirror
Decisions too
Decisions are made and not bought
But I thought this wouldn't hurt a lot
I guess not

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

(Chorus x4)

6. 4th Dimensional Transition

Tabbed by Jordan

I could't find a tab of this anywhere so I decided to figure it out myself. It's
pretty easy to make out just by listening to it, but I think I got it right for
the most part. Any comments or corrections are welcome.

All the verse parts are barre chords:

   G2
e|-------5----5---7----5---5---3---1---2----3---10---------------------------|
BB|---9---5----5---7----6---7---3---1---2----5---12---------------------------|
G+G|---9---6----5---8----7---7---4---2---3----5---12---------------------------|
D MajorD|---9---7----7---9----7---7---5---3---4----5---12---------------------------|
A augmentedA|---7---7----7---9----5---5---5---3---4----3---10---------------------------|
E MajorE|---0---5----5---7------------3---1---2-------------------------------------|

E MajorE
I feel your racing heart
E MajorE
My liquid silver arms extended
E MajorE
These waves aren't far apart
E MajorE
Black gold in clawfoot tubs unchanging
E MajorE
I am fire, where's my form?
BB
Whisper crimson I intrude
A augmentedA
There's light beneath your eyes
BB
New overtones in view
     E MajorE
Endless form, endless time

A augmentedA little different for the next verse:


E MajorE
If what they say is true
E MajorE
You are a shadow in the fourth dimension
E MajorE
To float away with you
E MajorE
We see the corners where nothing happens
E MajorE
While we drifted we were one
E MajorE
Ceilings lifted walls were gone

G(2)
You speak the language of the breeze
G+G
All your leaves were meant for me
   E MajorE
The love that every person wants to be

Here is the instrumental verse part:

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------------------------9-7-10-9------------------------------------------|
G+G|--9-------7-----------------------9-9---6-8-11-----------------------------|
D MajorD|-------9-----7-9-----------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

C majorC
Stuck together, I don't like revealing secrets
   G+G
I'll live inside your lips if you won't laugh
               A augmentedA
My heaving hands on rotten fruit at last
C majorC
Fallow fingers, there's a surface I can count on
    G+G
She'd fit inside my heart and take it over
              A augmentedA
Till her cape got blown into my red lungs
DmDm
Either there's a purpose
    C majorC
Or I'm heading out at breakfast
    FF
Take a drink, take a drag
     G+G
One more coffee, ugly hat
     G+G
No more mirrors, woolen bag
     D MajorD
And I am gone


The song ends by strumming a standard D MajorD chord a bunch of times,
before ending on a final G+G chord.

7. Pieces of What
Chordies
C majorC

Verse:

D MajorD
when the world has turned

E minorEm
paralyzed and wrong

E minorEm
cold blooded claws never offered anything at all

D MajorD
past the point of love

E minorEm
shattered and untied

D MajorD
waiting to pick up the pieces

E minorEm
that make it all alright

C majorC
but pieces of what

E minorEm
pieces of what

G+G
pieces of what

G+G
doesn't matter any more

8. Of Birds, Moons and Monsters
Tabbed by Angel
Greetings from Mexico!


Live Intro:

 BB

E-4------------------2----|
B-5------------------4----|
G-6------------------4----|
D-6------------------4----|
A-0------------------2----|
E-------------------------|

BB

Verse

G#G#
Why'd you cut holes in the face of the moon base?
     C# minorC#m
Don't you know about the temperature change
    G#G#
In the cold black shadow?
    A augmentedA
Are you mad at your walls
  G#G#
Or hoping that an unknown force can repair things for you?
    G#G#
Pardon all the time that you've thrown into your pale grey garden?
    A augmentedA
If the ship will never come you've got to move along

A augmentedA

Chorus

C# minorC#m
Even a bird would want a taste of dirt from abyssal dark
G#G#
    A augmentedA
The prick of a feather could make a kingdom burn and the bloodshed start
C# minorC#m
The falling apart
G#G#
Made me a shadow in the shape of wonder
  C# minorC#m
The waves of black
BB
    A augmentedA
If she's going under I can hold my breath till the sky comes back
  BB
Or drown like a rat, rat, rat
BB
He's a rat!

Solo

G#G#
To catch a monster
A augmentedA
We make a movie
A#A#
Set the tempo
B(with fill)
And cut and cut its brains out
G#G#
A augmentedA
It will inspire on the burning pyre
G#G#
Half the distance
A augmentedA
Half the motion
A#A#
Communication
G#G#
It's easy as the ocean

End

 G#G#

E------------12-12-11-9-7---------------|
B-9-7-9-7-----------------9------9-10-9-|
G---------9-----------------------------|
D---------------------------------------|
A---------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------|

9. The Handshake
Intro:
  |------------------- 3x -------------------|
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------0--2--0-------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|--------0----0--2----------------2----0-2-0--------------------------------|
E MajorE|--0--3------------------------------------------------0--3-----------------|

G+G
I just shook the handshake
D MajorD
I just sealed the deal
G+G
I'll try not to let them
D MajorD
Take everything they can steal
G+G
People always told me
D MajorD
Don't forget your roots
D MajorD
I know I can feel them underneath my leather boots

B minorBm
You toss all the mornings lost to the clouds and you watch it go
  B minorBm
Your fairweather friends on a parachute binge get lost when the wind blows
   A augmentedA
The handshake's stuck on the tip of my tongue
   B minorBm
It tastes like death but it looks like fun


Play this part with bar chords:

BB
I was a loner
      BB
I was just waiting by myself
 D MajorD
When you, warped temptress
          BB
Rose to bring me happiness and wealth
    C#C#
Black tears, black smile, black credit cards and shoes
A augmentedA
You can call all the people you want
     F#F#
But it's you who's being used
BB
Under your black eyes, honey
BB
Right beneath your nose
 D MajorD
A augmentedA curse on all creation
    BB
Every single thing you knew
    C#C#
White smoke, white light, white marble on the floor
F#F#
It would only take a few seconds of darkness to figure out what's in store

Little girl
 B minorBm
Mmm you convince yourself that you want it, but you don't know
  B minorBm
You keep on trying to wash the blood from your hands, but it won't go
A augmentedA
We're gonna keep you on the run
B minorBm
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake x15

10. Future Reflections
Intro

  A augmentedA
e|--9-----11----9-----11----11----9-----7----7----5----6----5----------------|
BB|--10----11----9-----12----12----11----9----7----5----6----5----------------|
G+G|--11----11----9-----13----13----11----9----8----6----7----6----------------|
D MajorD|--11----13----11----13----13----11----9----9----7----8----7----------------|
A augmentedA|--9-----13----11----11----11----9-----7----9----7----8----7----------------|
E MajorE|--------11----9----------------------------7----5----6----5----------------|


Verse

   E MajorE
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|----5---------------------9------------------------------------------------|
G+G|----6---------------------9------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|----7---------------------9------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|----0----0-----0----------7------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|------------0------------------0-0-0-0---0---------------------------------|


        A augmentedA
And there were future reflections
    E MajorE
On the face and the hands
   A augmentedA
On a green colored island
   E MajorE
On a primitive man
      A augmentedA
It was the future reflecting
     E MajorE
It felt familiar but new
       A augmentedA
A majorA street was missing a building
      E MajorE
The kids had something to do

BB
   There was a feeling the spirit was leaving
      A augmentedA
Red like a marker
E MajorE
   So my tribe, with my knife
A augmentedA
Cut the heart from a lonely life


This part is especially weird, so I just play basically
the bassline (which I mapped out for guitar)
throughout this verse:

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-------9--9-----9--9------9--9------9--9-----------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------9--9-----9--9------9--9------9--9-----------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-------7--7-----7--7------7--7------7--7-----------------------------------|
E MajorE|----7--------7---------7---------7-----------------------------------------|


I saw patterns on floorboards
Deep in the dust was a leader
Someone was walking on floorboards
Turned them from oak to cedar
He can assess the situation
I wrapped a string around my finger
Into the forest with the young ones
I don't expect to be a winner


E MajorE
  But as long as you feel it
     BB
I'm a believer
        A augmentedA
My heart is phosphor

E MajorE
  Sea rolls,  death tolls
A augmentedA
Break the surface don't break my bones
BB
  Off of the trail and off of your hands and
    A augmentedA
Onto a new plan
E MajorE
  Is the cost  to stay lost
 A augmentedA
Forever in an empty skin
A#A#
Pale and thin

A#A#
  If it's good, or if it's fortune, I can't tell
  E MajorE
But pieces come together for some reason just as well
BB
  Their guns couldn't see us
      A#A#
There's a sea outside my door
A augmentedA
  And one day I'll appreciate
   BB
The rush of blood and the washed out beat of the shore
           E MajorE
And remember what it felt like
    BB
To be alone
         E MajorE
Sitting in the sunlight
   E MajorE
All alone

Just end on that progression: