Chords for bright eyes - road to joy

_ _ _ _ Welcome back everyone.
Welcome back.
Rolling Stone once called our next guest, Rock's boy genius,
because he's been making records since he was 13.
He has two new CDs on the charts now and he's performing the song of Road to Joy.
Please welcome Connor Oberst and Bright Eyes.
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The sun came up with no conclusions, flowers sleeping in their beds.
As the city's cemeteries humming, I'm wide awake, it's morning.
_ _ And I have my drugs, I have my woman, they keep away my loneliness.
My parents, [F#] they have their [C#] religion, but sleep in separate houses. _ _
[F] And I read the body count out of [A#m] the papers. _
Now it's written [G#] all over [C#] my face. _
[F] No one ever plans to sleep out [A#m] in the dark. _
Sometimes that's just the [F] most [C#] comfortable place. _
So I'm drinking, breathing, writing, singing.
Every day I'm on the clock.
My mind races with all my longings, but can't keep up with what I've got.
_ So I hope this don't sound too ungrateful, but history gave modern men telephones
to talk to strangers, the sheet guns and a camera lens.
_ So when [F] you're asked to fight a [Fm] war [F] that's over [A#m] nothing, _ _
it's best to join [C#] the side that's gonna win. _ _
[F] No one knows [Fm] how all of this [A#m] stuff started.
Who was gonna make a damn [G#] certain palace [C#] stand?
Oh yeah, who will?
Oh yeah, who will?
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Well, I could have been a famous singer if I had someone else's voice,
but failures always sounded better.
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[F] _sarcasm,
[D#m] _ _ [C#] flowers, [F] sweet sin, [D#] and_
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[Fm] city's [F#] got_
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a [C#] horror_
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_ _ _ _ _ Welcome back, everyone.
Welcome back.
_honor
from bright eyes or bright eyes from_
Why do you use the bright eyes thing?
You've got nice bright eyes.
_ No, no, well, it's a band.
I mean, my_
It's a band name.
Yeah, but it's really just you manipulating it, isn't it?
Like an evil genius.
No, my friend Mike Moges, he's that other person.
He's_
all right.
So it really is a regular band.
Oh, well, I'm very sorry.
No, no, no.
I_
and I tell you what, I enjoy seeing the kids
smashing up the trumpets and the guitars and everything.
Is everybody okay?
Everyone's fine, I think.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Are you okay for cash?
Because some of these things are very expensive.
Yeah, that was an extremely expensive guitar I smashed.
You rock, my friend.
Well done.
It was really good.
_ And that's a pretty good_
How about the_
see, I love your work.
And I'm reading that they're comparing you,
you're saying the new Bob Dylan and all that.
How does that stuff kind of get to you?
Do you like that?
Do you not like it?
Oh, I mean_
Big trousers to step into, isn't it?
There's certainly worse things to be called. Yeah, yeah.
_ When I started, they called me the new Bob Dylan as well.
No, I don't really see that_
I don't see it myself, personally, but_
I like his music.
I think there's influence from there, yeah?
Yeah, definitely.
[C] What else?
[E] Woody Guthrie, that [N] kind of thing?
Yeah, absolutely.
What else? _
Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Simon Joyner.
I like Leonard Cohen.
I enjoy Leonard Cohen.
Although he's a bit sad.
Yeah.
He's a bit sad.
Now, listen, you've been recording since you were 13, right?
Is that right?
13?
Yep.
Yes.
What does a 13-year-old write songs about?
_ I hate school and all that sort of thing.
You know, I have strange stirrings in my pan. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Probably the same things, really.
Really?
You just write about what's going on in your life?
Yeah.
Yeah.
_ Listen, you're a fantastic musician, and I really love the band, Bright Eyes,
that you're a part of, and thanks for coming on the show.
_ _ _ _ The CDs are right away tomorrow morning.
It was digital hour.
Actually, digital hour.
That's right. _ _ _
I want to thank my guests, James Seymour, Paul Haggis,
Bright Eyes with Connor, who's a member of the band.
Join me tomorrow night with Mimi Rogers, James Denton from Desperate Housewaves,
at Housewaves,
[C] and FHM automobile columnist, Courtney Hanson.
Good night, everybody.
See you tonight.
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