If the Brakeman Turns My Way Chords by Bright Eyes

[B] When panic grips your body [E] and your heart's [B] a hummingbird
Raven thoughts blacken your mind [E] till you're breathing in [F#] reverse
[E] And all your friends [G#m] and senators [B] mean [D#m] well but [E] make it worse
_ _ _ [G#m] Every reassurance just magnifies [E] the doubt
[B] Better find [F#]
[G#m] yourself a [F#] place to [B] level out
_ [G#m] _ _
_ [F#] _ [B] Got a crooked form, a conscience always [E] looks the other [B] way
A cocaine soul starts seeming like [E] an empty [F#] cabaret
[E] Hey, well, [G#m] all the dance is [B] gone now the music [E] doesn't play
_ [G#m] Tried to listen to [E] the river [G#m] but you couldn't shut [E] your mouth
[B] Better [F#] take a [G#m] little [B] time to level out _ _ _
[E] I never thought [B] of running, _ _ _
[E] my feet just led [F#] the way _ _
[B] Need some signal, [E] going out for a train
[B] Moving out, cause a switch [F#] died in the crazy rain
[B] And I could meet you [E] moving out any place [F#] if the [G#m] [E] brakeman turns [B] my way
All [G#m] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] this automatic writing [E] I've tried to [B] understand
From a psychedelic angel [E] who was tugging on my [F#] [E] hand
It's an [B] infinite coincidence but it doesn't [F#] form [E] a plan
So [G#m] I'm headed for [E] New England [G#m] or the Paris of [E] the South
[B] Gonna [F#] find myself [G#m] [F#] somewhere to [B] level out
_ [G#m] _ _
_ [F#] _ [B] All your brothels full of Babylon with [E] merry [B] middlemen
Never peer out of their [E] periscopes from those deep [F#] old fiend dens
[E] All this death must need a [G#m] counterweight, [B] always someone [F#] born [E] again
_ _ [G#m] First a mother baits [E] her child, [G#m] then the other way [E] around
[B] The scales [F#] always [G#] find a [B] way to level out
_ _ [E] I tried to pass [B] for nothing _ [E] but my dreams gave me [F#] away
_ _ _ [B] _
Need some signal, [E] going out for a train [B] Moving out, people snuffed out in [F#] the brutal rain
[B] _
I could live to moving [E] out any [F#] age if the [E]
brakeman turns [B] my way
[C#m] These old words hard [F#] to remember, _ like [D#m] a dance on the [G#m] street
_ _ [E] And I'm gonna pee first [D#m] time thinner than [E] every [F#] written _ [B] history
Makes it easy, [E] moving out, I'm sad and pained, [B] moving out, I'll be logic [F#] in the crazy rain
[B] _ Getting better, moving [E] out, every day [G#m] if the [E] brakeman turns [B] my way
Need some signal, [E] going out for a train [B] Moving out, cause I switched [F#] out in the blinding rain
[B] Hear a smile [E] and I sealed my fate [F#] when the [G#m]
[E] brakeman turned my [B] way _ _ _ _ _
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