• Song:

    A Machine Spiritual In The Peoples Key

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

This is my first tab, so pwease be kind :)

Intro: C (just listen for the strum. This guitar is played on keyboard (by Conor) 
in live shows btw)

CThe (x32010@1)people's key
Ringing through arena seats
    AmThe (x02210@1)black machine
Played it all from memory
  FA (133211@1)fever dream
Well, I'll come back eventually
   FmTo (133111@1)wade into the water
Another and another

We go
Am (x02210@1)	  G (320003@1)Form some kind of code
	   AmThe (x02210@1)bodies float
		      GAnd (320003@1)form some kind of code
	   AmThe (x02210@1)bodies float
		 GSomeone's (320003@1)out to know

FPapa (133211@1)hobo
     GDon't (320003@1)hide your eyes
FMother (133211@1)mountain
      G (320003@1)       AmDon't (x02210@1)kill your unborn child
F (133211@1)  C (x32010@1) His day is coming
F (133211@1)  
  His day is coming

CA (x32010@1)question burns
Beneath the centuries of dirt
     AmThat (x02210@1)voice you've heard
Well, every head's a different world
      FWell, (133211@1)mine's concerned 
I boarded up the windows
    FmA (133111@1)catatonic plateau
A backwards black-faced minstrel show



Am (x02210@1)       G (320003@1)So just let me go
	     AmThe (x02210@1)prisoner moans
		GOh, (320003@1)just let me go
	     AmThe (x02210@1)prisoner moans
	      GNo (320003@1)one has to know

F (133211@1)    G (320003@1) Eva Braun went to dye her hair
F (133211@1)      G (320003@1)     Am (x02210@1) Little Hitler sighs in his giant's chair
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) And dreamed of nowhere
F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) And dreamed of nowhere
F (133211@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C
  And dreamed

C (hold)
The people's key
Ringing filling everything
    Am (hold)
The theme repeats
Thinner than the galaxy
   F (hold)
Impart to me
Your wisdom and eventually
     Fm(hold) (133111@1)I'll float into the ether
Another from another

We grow
Am (x02210@1)    G (320003@1) Form some kind of code
	   AmA (x02210@1)flesh at bone
		     GWe (320003@1)form some kind of code
           AmA (x02210@1)flesh at bone
		GNo, (320003@1)you're not alone

F (133211@1)     G (320003@1) History bows and it steps aside
F (133211@1)	G (320003@1)  Am (x02210@1) In the jungle there's columns of purple light
F (133211@1)C (x32010@1) We're starting over
F (133211@1)C (x32010@1) We're starting over
F (133211@1)C (x32010@1) We're starting 
F (133211@1)C (x32010@1) We're starting

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