CHORDSUPThe Alien - Manchester Orchestra chords
Key:
Am
Singer/Band:
Manchester Orchestra
Verse 1
[Am] [D/F#] [G] [C]
[Am] The lights were low enough, you [D/F#]guessed
You swapped your [G]conscience with your father's [C]medication
[Am] Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville [D/F#]
And on the [G]way, you wrote out a self-made [C]declaration
[Am] And when you got to Pleasant Hill [D/F#]
You forced the [G]traffic to erase your family [C]demons
[Am] And made a pact with you and god [D/F#]
If you don't [G]move, I swear to you I'm gonna [C]make ya
Chorus 1
[C] [Em] [G] [C]
Do you [C]need me? [Em]
Do you [G]need me? [C]
Do you [C]need me? [Em]
Do you [G]need me? [C]
Verse 2
[Am] [D] [G] [C]
[Am] When the first officer arrived [D]
It happened to [G]be the high school bully of your [C]brother
[Am] When you finally [D]recognized
You felt some [G]guilt that you had even let him [C]touch you
[Am] Can you hear me, what's your name? [D]
You could not [G]speak just laid amazed at all the [C]damage
[Am] As the high school's letting [D]out
All the [G]kids are sayin' the same thing that they [C]used to
Chorus 2
It's an [C]alien [Em]
It's an [G]alien [C]
It's an [C]alien [Em]
It's an [G]alien [C]
Interlude
[Am] [D] [G] [C] [Am] [D] [G] [C]
Verse 3
[Am] The lights are low enough you [D]guessed
Hospital [G]food, there's never enough [C]medication
[Am] The doctor asked about your [D]ears
You said your [G]mom said you were made from a [C]revelation
[Am] The revelation never [D]scares
Your fear came [G]from your drunken dad and a pair of [C]scissors
[Am] Were you just finally letting [D]go?
Did you [G]mean to take out all those people [C]with you?
Chorus 3
Didn't [C]mean to [Em]
Didn't [G]mean to [C]
Didn't [C]mean to [Em]
Didn't [G]mean to [C]
Oh I didn't [C]mean ------------------ to [Em]
(Take the time to learn to let you go)
Oh I didn't [G]mean ---------- to [C]
(Don't let me go)
No I didn't [C]mean ------------------ to [Em]
(Take the time to learn to let you go)
Oh I didn't [G]mean ----------- to [C]
(Never let you go)
Outro
[Am] [G] [Am] [G]
[Am]Time is here to take your
last amendments and believe them on your [G]own
[Am]Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there [G]alone
[Am]Time has come to take the last
commandment and to carve it into [G]stone
[Am]Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here [G]alone
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