{"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":279217,"song":"From A Balance Beam","artist":"Bright Eyes","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/279217-from-a-balance-beam-chords-by-bright-eyes/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/279217?type=chord","rating":4.92514,"votes":38,"content":"In no way did I write this. I found it on xguitar.com, and its much more accurate than\r\nthe other chords on this site. This is one of my favorite Bright Eyes songs. I was\r\nbummed they didnt play it when I went to see em last month. Enjoy.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere is a man holding a megaphone, so he must have been the voice of God.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe bystanders claimed they saw angels flying up and down the block.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Gm[/ch](300230)\r\nWell, they must have been attached to wires. I saw one laying in[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nthe lawn with a broken arm,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nso I called 911. So that is one less founded opinion. One more cause for a dispute.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo the street filled, like a basin, up with cameras and their crews[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand they washed away the rumors leaving just the concrete truth. It was a spectacle.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNo, I mean a miracle. So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nA gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me. I lifted one foot to cross the other[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand I felt myself slipping. It was a small mistake. Sometimes that is all it takes.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\n Now I'm staring at my wrist, hoping that the timing is right. When the[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nplanes will align.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nThere will be no planets to align. Just the carcass of the sun[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nand those little painted marbles spinning endless through an endless black sky.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd one by one I drowned all of the people I had been.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI emerged to find the parallels were fewer. I was cleansed. I looked in the mirror[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand someone new was there. Still, I was as helpless as a chess piece[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nwhen I was lifted up by someone's hand and delivered from the corner my[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nenemies had got me in.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nthat is myself.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nSo I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand the guard will say to me, \"Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nthis day[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand finally you are free! You are free! You are freezing.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\n Now I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode. Because a day is[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]\r\ngonna come,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\ndon't know when but it will come and then we will finally know the way out of here.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nAnd I will throw away this wrinkled map and my chart of stars and compass, cracked.[/tab]\r\nAnd I'll climb out that tree all wet with sap to avoid the hungry beasts below.\r\nI'll cut out my love's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green and\r\nthen we won't have to worry no more. No we won't ever worry again abouthow this song\r\nor story ends about how this song and story will end.\r\n\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]","plain_text":"In no way did I write this. I found it on xguitar.com, and its much more accurate than\nthe other chords on this site. This is one of my favorite Bright Eyes songs. I was\nbummed they didnt play it when I went to see em last month. Enjoy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nD D D D\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd I'll climb out that tree all wet with sap to avoid the hungry beasts below.\nI'll cut out my love's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green and\nthen we won't have to worry no more. No we won't ever worry again abouthow this song\nor story ends about how this song and story will end.\n\nD D D","chords":["D","A","D7","G","Gm","Bm"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}