{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":159130,"song":"To Love And To Be Loved","artist":"Bright Eyes","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/159130-to-love-and-to-be-loved-chords-by-bright-eyes/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/159130?type=chord","rating":4.11633,"votes":9,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] x4\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.   [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch] \r\nbaby cries hard in an apartment complex,     [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]     \r\nAs I pass in a car buried under the influence.           [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe city's driving me out of my mind.             [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI 've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.   [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree,     [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.            [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNext time he will not aim so high.         [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]    \r\nYeah, next time, neither will I.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nA mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHer family is reduced to names on a shopping list.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nMeanwhile, a coroner kneels, beneath a great, wooden crucifix.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe know that there are worse things than being alone.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo, I've learned to retreat at the first sign of danger.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender? [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAmbition, I've found, can only lead to failure.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI do not read the reviews. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNo, I am not singing for you.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] x4\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                         [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWith all these wishes I make, I should buy something real, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAt least a telephone call home.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, my teachers, they built the retaining wall memory, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll those multiple choices I answered so quickly.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd I got my grades back and forgot just as easily, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut as least I got an 'A'.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo I don't have them to blame.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]E[/ch] \r\nI should stop pointing fingers; reserve my judgment [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                        [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOf all those public action figures, the cowboy president.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can't admit [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen they've made a mistake.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhile poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe knows he don't have to say it, so it don't bother him. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\"Honesty\" \"Accuracy\" are really just \"Popular Opinion.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the approval rating's high.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd so someone's gonna die.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, ABC  NBC  CBS: Bullshit.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                       [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd each new act of war is tonight's entertainment.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe are still the pawns in their game. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs they take an eye for an eye until no one can see,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                            [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                      [ch]E[/ch] \r\nWell, I guess that we all fit into your slogan on the fast food marquee:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nRed blooded, White skinned oh and the Blues.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh, and the Blues? I got the Blues! That's me! That's me![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] x4\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, I awoke in relief. My sheets and tubes were all tangled.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWeak from whiskey and pills,in a Chicago hospital. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nMy father was there, in a chair by the window,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nstaring so far away.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI tried talking, just whispered, \"...so sorry...so selfish...\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe stopped me and said, \"Child I love you regardless [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd there is nothing you could do that would ever change this.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI'm not angry. It happens. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut you just can't do it again.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo now I try to keep up, I have been exchanging my currency.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhile a million objects pass through my periphery. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo now I am rubbing my eyes because they are starting to bother me. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI've been staring too long at the screen.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility? [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHow grateful I was then to be part of the mystery;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo love and be loved. [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLet's just hope that is enough.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch] x4\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nC  E  Am  F  G x4\nAm  G  C\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nC  E  Am  F  G x4\nAm  G  C\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nC  E  Am  F  G x4\nAm  G  C\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nC  Em  Am  F  G x4\nAm  G  C","chords":["C","E","Am","F","G","A","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}