• Song:

    Southern State

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    2003-09-20: Austin, TX,...

Capo 3

         D5          
Well the songs you sung spiraled
    F#5
And hung 'round like echoes 
  E5                 A5
Or ripples on a pond

       D5
So you circled the globe
        F#5
Spent a year on the road
      E5           A5
Without ever going home

            D5
More than a couple of days, 
           F#5
Then you?d leave right away
        E5               A5
Run to a girl you barely know

        D5
But you like how she sings
        F#5
And you can?t help but think
            E5                  A5 
That there?s something that she knows and could teach you

E5                              A5
  While you?re sleeping in that southern state
E5                               A5
  Where the bars are filled with people you can?t hate
    E5
But try as you try
    A5
You still can?t relate to them 
        E5                     A5
And you drink that whiskey down
              
As they ask you, 

 B5               G5       D5           
?Are you who you say you are??
 B5               G5               D5
Are you who you say that you are?
 B5               G5                D5
Are you who you say that you are, you?
 D5               D5              
Are you who you say that you are?
 B5               G5      D5    E5 G5
Are you who you say you are?
              A5
The fact that you can?t tell makes us like you even more

D5 F#5 E5 A5
              D5 
So now you?re trying again
        F#5
Or just visiting friends
      E5                   A5
One had just had his heart broke

              D5 
For the first time in his life
       F#5
He realized there are times
        E5              A5
When you can?t make it alone

               D5  
But now you?re giving advice
      F#5  
As if you had the right
   E5               A5  
To use a word like ?love?

         D5
It?s a negotiable term
          F#5
What gets said?s not what?s heard
        E5                 A5     
So it?s different then for everyone

                E5                  A5
But you're still hanging ?round that college town
        E5                          A5
With your?your new life your new lover you?ve found 
           E5                      A5
And you?re keeping her up at night, bringing her down
                 E5                  A5
She?ll watch you drink yourself to death
    
But won?t ask you, 

  B5       G5               D5
?is this really what you want??
 B5       G5              D5
Is this really what you want?
 B5          G5                   D5
Is this really what you is this what...
  B5           G5           
Is this really what you want?
B5        G5               D5    E5 G5
Is this really what you want?
             A5                                                D5 , F#5
Are you just sticking with it now because it?s all you?ve got?
             E5                           A5                   D5 , F#5
Are you just sticking with it now because it?s all you?ve got?
                               E5
Yeah that?s it, I think you?re sticking with me now 
        A5
Because I?m all you?ve got

D5 , F#5 , E5 , A5
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