Chords for An Interview with Fontaines D.C.

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[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] We met in Dublin [Gb] in an area called the Liberties, which was [B] very _ [E]
romantic to [B] us at the time
because it was, _ [G]
I see it now anyway, as the last refuge of [F] the cultural [E] part of Dublin.
A lot of it is [Eb] being washed away by hotels and stuff.
_ [N] So we met there and we bonded over
poetry.
_ _ So for me in a way, the band, _ as far as my contribution goes, is the band that
is really a vehicle for my words and stuff.
_ _ _ _ _ We're just incredibly close, like friends.
To think of it as a band [E] is almost strange to me.
_ I think [Bm] it's like, _ [A] you can look at it two ways.
One way is definitely good [Em] because [G] it
reaches more people, [Ab] more of our audience.
We love that people [N] get something from what
we make in music. _
_ _ I think something like that, gig of the week, that's amazing respect.
_ _ _ Sometimes the media can _ _ _ have the wrong idea of you and then just _ _ _ [E] give this idea to people
about you.
It can be a wrong idea. _
_ [Gb] That kind of stuff I don't think is cool.
I feel like every time there's a _ compliment or _ _ [F] any _ form of validation that comes in from
an [Am] external source, [Gb] I feel like immediately I'm at a crossroads where [E] I can [Eb] take it on
board and accept it and feel it and be flattered. _
_ [Gb] If it's the other way I could be dismayed
by [N] it.
_ I just _ block it out a lot of the time [B] because I feel like _ [Gb] _
quite intensely, I feel
like [Abm] I'm quite [Gb] intensely aware [C] of the fact that these aspects of what we're doing can
come and go.
This kind of adulation from the sources and stuff like [E] that, they can come
and go.
[N] But the adulation of _ the friends with which I play and _ the _ feeling of enjoyment
I get out of music and writing and performing music, that will remain.
I try and just focus
on that because [Gb] that's where I know I can trust that.
_ [A] It's not going anywhere.
[B] I can't do it in [Eb] a contrived manner where it's not called upon.
_ But [F] _
I [E] write my way [Eb] out
of things.
[N] I write my way out of feelings.
I find myself in a situation that confuses
me, _ confounds me and I have to write my way to feeling normal again.
What happens in between
_ those two points [B] of feeling _ becomes lyric.
[D] I think [Eb] it's just nice to shake it up every
once in a while.
I think the first thought was [N] when I saw the Coventry Library, I thought
it was a venue called the Coventry Library, which was normal.
_ But then someone was like
no that's actually a library. _
I thought it must be some sort of really old, _ _ beautiful
antique looking library.
And they were like no, no, it's just a normal library.
People
go there to spend the day. _
It's a great library.
Yeah.
And I was like wow.
So I didn't know
what to expect at all.
And then when we came in I was like wow, it is a normal library.
_ _ It's very strange but it's amazing that you can use a space like that in this way. _
People come to the gigs and [E] enjoy that. _ _
_ [B] That's great.
_ _ Forget the [B] career aspect of it.
_ _ _ Focus on what defines you as a person and what defines your
mind [Bm] and your _ [Eb] emotions and your feelings.
_ [N]
Don't be afraid to be vulnerable. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Don't be
afraid to be emotional.
If you're_
_ _ _ Absolutely, I agree with all those things.
I think the most important thing is forget
the career aspect of things.
If you do music _ _ _ _ _ _ just to become what _ _ you write for that reason,
then you're just doing the wrong thing. _
And ultimately what you write is going to mean
nothing.
This is our ideal.
This is our _ idealism.
_ And not everyone feels like that.
Some people
want a different thing but that's how they get what I want which _ I have now because I feel liberated.
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