From live performances you can tell this song is played in standard tuning with a capo on the 3rd fret. Capo 3rd fret Bright Eyes Four Winds Intro: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C x4 Em C Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe G Am There's people always dying trying to keep them alive G Am His body's decomposing in containers tonight C In an abandoned building where Em C A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl G Am With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl G Am She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world C Four winds blowing through her hair Am D Am D But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon C G C G She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed Am She caves Interlude: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C Em C The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qu'ran is mute G Am If you'd burn them all together you'd get close to the truth still G Am They're pouring over sanskrit on the ivy league moons C While shadows lengthen in the sun Em C Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times G Am And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds G Am It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines C Four winds, cry until it comes Am D And it's the song of man Am D Slouching towards Bethlehem C G C G A heart just can't contain all of that empty space Am D It breaks, it breaks, (it breaks) Interlude: Em, C, Em, C, Em, C, D Em C Well, I went back, I rent a Cadillac, a company jet G Am Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps G Am All the way to Cassadega to commune with the dead C They said, "You'd better look alive" Em C And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps G Am In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east G Am I buried my ballast, I made my peace C With four winds, levelling the pines Am D Am D But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon C G C G She just can't remain with all that outer space Am D Am D She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves. End on: Em
