Bright Eyes - The Center Of The World guitar tab
Bright Eyes
the center of the world
standard
mark sheary
Intro some D picking varies a bit
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(one string at a time)
G Bm Am
At the center of the world there's a statue of a girl
C D G
She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry
Bm Am
I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand
C D G
This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand
Bm Am
It came to rest upon a beach with a million others there
C D G
We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out so that we could disappear
Bm Am
Into the endlessness of blue into the horror of the truth
C D Em
See, we are far less than we knew, yeah, we are far less than we knew
Em C
But we knew what we could taste
Em
Girls found honey to drench our hands
B
The men cut marble to mark our graves
B
Said we'll need something to
(mostly the lower notes for this part)
example:
G B Am C D
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G
remind us of
B
All the sweetness that has passed through us
Em
The priests dressed children for a choir
B
But found no joy in what was sung
B C D D G
The funeral had begun
G Bm Am
In the middle of the day when you drive home to your place
C D G
From that job that makes you sleep back to the thoughts that keep you awake
Bm
Am
Long after night has come to claim any light that still remains
C D
In the corner of the frame
(lower notes again for this part)
G
that you put around her face
Bm
Two pills just weren't enough
Am
The alarm clock's going off but you're not waking up
C D
This isnt happening happening happening happening happening
G
It is
end riff (something like this)
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