This song is in standard tuning, in the key of E major. Great song,
best on the new Lights and Sounds album, in my opinion.

Chords used:
   E5  A5  B5  E C#m7 Bsus4 Asus4
E|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
B|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
G|-9---11--8---1---6---4---2---|
D|-x---x---x---2---6---4---2---|
A|-7---9---6---2---4---2---0---|
E|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|

Intro: E5, A5, B5, E5

        E5           A5
I could tell you the wildest of tales
B5                      E5
My friend the giant and traveling sales
E5               A5
Tell you all the times that I failed
    B5
The years all behind me
    E5
The stories excelled.

    C#m7       E
And I'm drying out
       Bsus4
Crying out
     Asus4        E
This isn't how I go


Repeat intro.

        E5            A5
I could tell you of a man not so tall
    B5                       E5
Who said life's a circus and so we are small
E5            A5
Tell you of a girl that I saw
B5                        #5
I froze in the moment and she changed it all

    C#m7       E
And I'm drying out
       Bsus4
Crying out
     Asus4        C#m7
This isn't how I go
      E
Hurry now
       Bsus4
Lay me down
    Asus4             Bsus4
And let these waters flow
C#m7  Asus4(x2)
Flow, ooo
Bsus4
Flow,
C#m7 Asus4(x2)
Flow, ooo

C#m7         Bsus4           Asus4                 E
Son I am not everything you thought that I would be
    C#m7        Bsus4           Asus4(x2)
But every story I have told is part of me

        E5       A5
And you keep the air in my lungs
B5                  E5
Floating along as a melody comes
       E5               A5
And my heart beats like timpani drums
B5                       E5
Keeping the time while a symphony strums

    C#m7       E
And I'm drying out
       Bsus4
Crying out
     Asus4        C#m7
This isn't how I go
      E
Hurry now
       Bsus4
Lay me down
    Asus4             Bsus4
And let these waters flow
C#m7  Asus4(x2)
Whoa, whoa...
Bsus4
Flow,
C#m7 Asus4(x2)
Whoa, whoa...
Bsus4         C#m7  Asus4
Let it flow, whoa, whoa
Bsus4         C#m7  Asus4
Let it flow, whoa, whoa


C#m7         Bsus4           Asus4                 E
Son I am not everything you thought that I would be
    C#m7        Bsus4           Asus4(x2)
But every story I have told is part of me
C#m7            Bsus4             Asus4            E
Son I leave you now but you have so much more to do
C#m7            Bsus4           Asus4      Bsus4  E
And every story I have told is part of you

Outro: E5, B5, C#m7, Asus4, E


So, this is a basic idea of it. Of course, it's just by ear, so have fun with it,
fix up parts you think are different.

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