• Song:

    Triple Spiral

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    The People's Key

Track 7 on Bright Eyes' final album, The People's Key due out Feb. 15th.

E:022100--or--x79997
Emaj7:x69997
F#:244222
Abm:466444
A:002220
B:x24442
C#m:x46654

E (022100@1)            A (x02220@1)        C#m (x13321@4)         BI (x2444x@1)loved a Triple Spiral, my maiden-mother-crone
  E (022100@1)        Abm (133111@4)           C#m (x13321@4)   B (x2444x@1)I folded my devotion into an origami rose
     C#m (x13321@4)           B (x2444x@1)         E (022100@1)          AStood (x02220@1)at her Tiffany window, she said to look below
        E (022100@1)              ACould (x02220@1)I see the town was burning?
        E (022100@1)            ACould (x02220@1)I see the broken prison?
       F#m (244222@1)            B (x2444x@1)            ECould (022100@1)I see that it was time for me to go?

E (022100@1)          A (x02220@1)          C#m (x13321@4)                BThey (x2444x@1)looted the museum and took all that they could hold
  E (022100@1)          Abm (133111@4)               C#m (x13321@4)            BA (x2444x@1)motorcade of flatbed trucks made off with quite a haul
C#m (x13321@4)               BThat's (x2444x@1)when I heard someone shout,
             E (022100@1)               A"In (x02220@1)with the new! Out with the old!"
  E (022100@1)          AA (x02220@1)dusty box of letters
  E (022100@1)             AA (x02220@1)rusting suit of armor
 F#m (244222@1)           B (x2444x@1)            EA (022100@1)casket made of fourteen karat gold

C#m (x13321@4)         Abm (133111@4)   That's the problem
C#m (x13321@4)           B (x2444x@1)   No sense of time
       E (022100@1)         Emaj7 (021100@1) Abm (133111@4)name="chord_x13321@4">C#m         A (x02220@1)       B (x2444x@1)E (022100@1) 
She is shaped just like an hourglass there laying on her side

E (022100@1)              A (x02220@1)   C#m (x13321@4)           BI (x2444x@1)loved you Triple Spiral-father, son and ghost
        E (022100@1)           Abm (133111@4)               C#mBut (x13321@4)you left me in my darkest hour when I needed you,
       Bwhen (x2444x@1)I needed you
   C#m (x13321@4)             B (x2444x@1)     E (022100@1)           ANow (x02220@1)that the dream is over I want it to be known
       E (022100@1)          AThat (x02220@1)I never saw it coming
           E (022100@1)          AThrough (x02220@1)my little human prism
    F#m (244222@1)        B (x2444x@1)            EHow (022100@1)sad it is to know I'm in control

C#m (x13321@4)        Abm (133111@4)  That's the problem
C#m (x13321@4)       B (x2444x@1)  An empty sky
  E (022100@1)    Emaj7 (021100@1)  Abm (133111@4)C#m (x13321@4)         A (x02220@1)     B (x2444x@1)     E (022100@1)                        
I fill it up with everything that is missing from my life
C#m (x13321@4)            Abm (133111@4)  Where did you come from?
C#m (x13321@4)        B (x2444x@1)  You fated sign
E (022100@1)      Emaj7 (021100@1)     Abm (133111@4) C#m (x13321@4) A (x02220@1)     B (x2444x@1)     ESpinning (022100@1)through the centuries expanding all the time

A (x02220@1)                                E (022100@1)Three worlds at once that blend together
A (x02220@1)                             B (x2444x@1)Three times I cried for us but I felt better then

E (022100@1)              A (x02220@1)       C#m (x13321@4)          BI (x2444x@1)loved you Triple Spiral, my maiden-mother-crone
    E (022100@1)              Abm (133111@4)            C#m (x13321@4)            BYou (x2444x@1)found me in this fallow state, my mind was off and stowed
  C#m (x13321@4)                 B (x2444x@1)        E (022100@1)               AI (x02220@1)heard your strange commotion and wished I could go home
   E (022100@1)           ATo (x02220@1)live a little longer

E (022100@1)         A (x02220@1)A full Indian summer
F#m (244222@1)          B (x2444x@1)            ELong (022100@1)enough to carve you into stone

E--Emaj7--Abm--C#m--A--B--E 
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