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R.E.M. - ÜBerlin Chords
Capo: 1st
For the verse: For A change between A and Aadd9 (x02200) and for E between E and E6 (022120)
For the Chorus: I play all of them as barre chords and E (x76454)
Verse:
F#mHey now, tAake your pills and C#mhey now, Emake your breakfast
F#mHey now, Acomb your hair and Eoff to work
F#mCrash land, Ano illusions, C#mno collision, Eno intrusion
F#mMy imAagination Eruns away
Chorus:
DI know, I know, I know what I am chEasing
DI know, I know, I know that this is chEanging me
DI am flying on a stAar into a mEeteor tonBmight
I am Dflying on a Estar, star, star
DI will make it through the dAay and then the dEay becomes the nBmight
I will Dmake it through the Enight
Verse:
F#mHey now, Atake the U-Bahn, C#mfive stops, cEhange the station
F#mHey now, Adon’t forget that Echange will save you
F#mHey now, Acount a thousand-C#mmillion people, Ethat’s astounding
F#mChasing through the Acity with their Estars on bright
Chorus:
DI know, I know, I know what I am chEasing
DI know, I know, I know that this is chEanging me
DI am flying on a stAar into a mEeteor tonBmight
I am Dflying on a Estar, star, star
DI will make it through the dAay and then the dEay becomes the nBmight
I will Dmake it through the Enight
Bridge (barre Chords):
C   Bm   D   C#m( D  C#m)
C Bm D C#m
Verse:
F#mI don’t Amind repeating, C#mI am not Ecomplete
F#mI have Anever been the gEifted type
F#mHey, man, Atell me something, C#mare you oEff to somewhere?
F#mDo you Awant to go with Eme tonight?
Chorus:
DI know, I know, I know what I am chEasing
DWe walk the streets to feel the ground I’m chEasing: ÜBerlin
DI am flying on a stAar into a mEeteor tonBmight
I am Dflying on a stEar, star, star
DI will make it through the dAay and then the dEay becomes the nBmight
I will Dmake it through the EnightF#m  
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