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Hit the Switch - Bright Eyes
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Tabbed by: drewbix
Tuning: Standard
Chords, or the ones that I use:
A/C#: x or x or x
4 4 4
7 2 7
6 2 x
5 x x
5 x x
F#m: x or 2
9 4
11 4
11 2
10 2
9 2
F#m/F: x
8
11
11
10
9
E(7): 0 I just feel the 7th is implied, but it's not crucial.
2
0
1
0
0
A
I'm staring out into that vaccum again
A/C#
From the back porch of my mind
Bm
The only thing thats alive
E(7)
I'm all there is
A
And I start attacking my vodka, stab the ice with my straw
A/C#
My eyes have turned red as stoplights, you seem ready to walk
Bm
You know I'll call you eventually, when I wanna talk
E(7)
'Til then you're invisible.
F#m F#m/F Bm E
'Cause theres a switch that gets hit and it all stops making sense
F#m F#m/F Bm E
And in the middle of drinks, maybe the fifth or the sixth
F#m F#m/F Bm
I'm completely alone at a table of friends
E E(7)
I feel nothing for them. I feel nothing, nothing
Interlude:
A, E, Bm, E
A, E, Bm, E
F#m, F#m/F, Bm, E
A
Well, I need a break from the city again
A/C#
I think I'll ship myself back west
Bm E(7)
I got a friend there, she says, "hey, any time."
A
Unless that offers expired, I have been less than frequent
A/C#
she's under no obligation to indulge every whim
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Bm
And I'm so ungrateful, I take, she gives and forgives
E(7)
And I keep forgetting it
F#m F#m/F Bm E(7)
And each morning she wakes with a dream to describe
F#m F#m/F Bm E(7)
Something lovely that bloomed in her beautiful mind
F#m F#m/F Bm
I said "I'll trade you one for two nightmares of mine
E E(7)
I have some where I die, I have some where we all die."
Interlude:
A, E, Bm, E
A, E, Bm, E
F#m, F#m/F, Bm, E
Loud Part: Not sure on this part.
Goes from F#m to G#m at the end of the loud part.
A
I'm thinking of quitting drinking again
A/C#
I know i said that a couple times
Bm E(7)
And I'm always changing my mind, well, i guess i am
A
But theres this burn in my stomach and theres this pain in my side
A/C#
And when I kneel at the toilet
Bm
And the mornings clean light pours in through the window
Sometimes I pray I don't die
E(7)
I'm a goddamn hypocrite
F#m F#m/F Bm E(7)
But the night rolls around and it all starts making sense
F#m F#m/F Bm E(7)
There is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live
F#m F#m/F Bm
And so I do what I do and at least I exist
E
What could mean more than this?
E(7)
What would mean more?
Mean more?
Interlude:
A, E, Bm, E
A, E, Bm, E
F#m, F#m/F, Bm
Ending finger picking, play around on this chord:
x20200 It's essentially A Bm.
That's sort of it.
