At the Bottom of Everything Chords by Bright Eyes

_ _ _ _ So there was this woman and she was up on an airplane and she's fine to meet her fiancee ceiling high above the
_ the largest ocean on planet Earth and she was seated next to this man who
[F#] You know, she had tried to start conversations and only really the only thing she'd heard him say was just to order his
his bloody Mary and
When she's sitting there and she's reading this
Really arduous magazine article about a third world country that she couldn't even pronounce the name of and
She's feeling very bored very despondent and
and then uh
suddenly
There was this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out
And they started just falling
30,000 feet the
Pilots on them [C#] on the microphone and he's he's saying I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Oh my god
I'm sorry apologizing and and she looks at the man and she and [Am] she says she says she says where are we going? _
and
He looks at her
_ Says we're going to a party
_ _ _ It's a birthday party
It's [A] your birthday party.
Happy birthday, darling
[F] We love you [G] very very very very [Dm] very very [D] very much [F] and then starts humming this little tune and
[Am] And it kind of goes like this _ once you _
[C] _ Must _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _
[F] _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _
talk in every [F] telephone get eaten [C] off the web
Must rip out all the [F] epilogues from the books that [G] we have read
[C] Into the face of every criminal [F] strap firmly to a chair.
[C] We must stare [G] we must stare [C] we must stare
We must take all of the medicines [F] too expensive [C] now to sell
Step higher to the preacher [F] who is promising [G] us
Hell [C] into the ear of every anarchist [F] that sleeps but doesn't dream we [C] must sing
We [G] must sing we [C] must sing and it'll go like this
[F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Plants [C] my father
_ _ [F] _ Says _ death will give [G] us back to God [Am] just like this setting [F] Sun _
[G] Is returned to the [Em] lonesome ocean?
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ And they splashed into the deep blue sea.
[F] Oh
_ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] It's [G] a wonderful [C] splash
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
We must blend into the choir [F] sing a static [C] with the whole
must memorize nine numbers [F] and deny we [G] have a soul [C] and it is endless race for
[F] Property and privilege to be one.
[C] We must run.
[G] We must run.
[C] We must run _
We must hang up in the belfry [F] where the bats and [C] moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal [F] ball and only [G] see the past
[C] Into the caverns of tomorrow with [F] just our flashlights and our love [C] we must plunge [G] we must plunge
[C] Must plunge and then we'll get down there way down to the very bottom of everything and then we'll see it
Oh, I'll see you
_ [F] _ _ _
[G] Morning's coming back
[C] the whole world's waking [F] up
_ All the city buses [G] swimming past
[Am] I'm happy just [F] because
_ [G] I found out in real
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _