Bright Eyes - If The Brakeman Turns My Way Chords & Tabs

Capo: 4th fret

Bright Eyes
If The Brakeman Turns My Way

       G                             C                G
When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird
 G                                               C           D
Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse
 Em                     D             G       D        C
All your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse
 Em       C              Em            C
Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt
  Em            D        C        D      G
Better find yourself a place to level out

Em, D

        G                               C              G
Got a cricket for a conscience always looks the other way
    G                                  C       D
A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret
       Em                 D                    G       D      C
Hey, where have all the dancers gone? Now the music doesn't play
           Em            C              Em                C
Tried to listen to the river but you couldn't shut your mouth
        Em      D      C       D      G
Better take a little time to level out
C                     G
I never thought of running
C                     D
My feet just led the way


G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G                            D
Cars are switched out in the crazy rain
G                C
I could meet you any place
        D    C    D       G
If the Brakeman turns my way

Em, D
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           G                        C           G
All this automatic writing I have tried to understand
          G                         C           D
From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand
          Em         D                G      D      C
It's an infinite coincidence but it doesn't form a plan
         Em             C             Em           C
So I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South
       Em    D       C           D      G
Gonna find myself somewhere to level out

Em, D

           G                               C         G
Are your brothels full, Oh Babylon, with merry Middlemen?
       G                                       C          D
Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens
           Em                   D                  G     D     C
All this death must need a counterweight always someone born again
         Em                 C             Em         C
First a mother bathes her child then the other way around
             Em     D     C       D      G
The Scales always find a way to level out

C                     G
I tried to pass for nothing
C                      D
But my dreams gave me away

G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G                          D
People snuffed out in the brutal rain
G               C
I could live to any age
        D    C   D        G
If the Brakeman turns my way

         Am                       D7
It is an old world it's hard to remember
        G            C
Like a dime store mystery
        Am                 D7
I'm a repeat first time offender
          C         D    (G)
Who has rewritten history

G
Mixed up tea leaves
C
Phantom Pain
G                   D
Fuzzy logic in the crazy rain
G               D
Getting better every day
        D    C    D       G
If the Brakeman turns my way
G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G                             D
Cars are switched out in the blinding rain
G                       C
He'll be smiling as he seals my fate
          D    C    D       G
When the Brakeman turns my way