• Song:

    A Machine Spiritual In The Peoples Key

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

Intro: C5 (just listen for the strum. This guitar is played on keyboard (by C?nor) 
in live shows btw)


    C5
The people's key
Ringing through arena seats
    A5
The black machine
Played it all from memory
  F5
A fever dream
Well, I'll come back eventually
   F5
To wade into the water
Another and another

We go
A5                    G5
      Form some kind of code
         A5
The bodies float
                  G5
And form some kind of code
         A5
The bodies float
             G5
Someone's out to know

F5
Papa hobo
     G5
Don't hide your eyes
F5
Mother mountain
      G5                   A5
Don't kill your unborn child
F5         C5
  His day is coming
F5         
  His day is coming


  C5
A question burns
Beneath the centuries of dirt
     A5
That voice you've heard
Well, every head's a different world
      F5
Well, mine's concerned 
I boarded up the windows
    F5
A catatonic plateau
A backwards black-faced minstrel show



A5                   G5
      So just let me go
           A5
The prisoner moans
            G5
Oh, just let me go
           A5
The prisoner moans
            G5
No one has to know


F5                G5
  Eva Braun went to dye her hair
F5                  G5                 A5
  Little Hitler sighs in his giant's chair
F5             C5
  And dreamed of nowhere
F5             C5
  And dreamed of nowhere
F5      C5
  And dreamed


    C5 (hold)
The people's key
Ringing filling everything
    A5 (hold)
The theme repeats
Thinner than the galaxy
   F5 (hold)
Impart to me
Your wisdom and eventually
     F5 (hold)
I'll float into the ether
Another from another


We grow
A5                G5
  Form some kind of code
         A5
A flesh at bone
                 G5
We form some kind of code
           A5
A flesh at bone
            G5
No, you're not alone


F5                 G5
  History bows and it steps aside
F5                  G5              A5
  In the jungle there's columns of purple light
F5            C5
  We're starting over
F5            C5
  We're starting over
F5            C5
  We're starting 
F5            C5
  We're starting      

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