Chords for Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math EPK

_ We built this house with our hands and our time and our blood
You built this up in one day
To fall down or then rust you built this house with your hands
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
You [Dm] built this [Gm] house with your hands and your time [F#] and your [B] blood _ and _ _ that's referring to the fans
with saying you know like you did this
I [D] think everybody that really likes [G] our band I know that they take it really [F#m] seriously
you know and [B] I they're constantly [D] excited for what's gonna [G] come next
That's [N] really fucking cool man
_ Somebody's singing an octave higher? _
Nobody's singing the melody octave?
We're all huh?
That's weird
I think at one point though
Zac Efron definitely went
_ _ _ _ Good job again What's up? _ _ _ _
_ _ Everybody in [G] the band I've known since at least I was 16 or 17
Three of [F#m] the members
[G] I were in the first band I was ever in
The kind of the brotherhood of our band is definitely a big [F#] element to it
And this record [Bm] was really the [D] most fluid we've written as a band [G] before
And fluid [F#] in the creating [B] process of it
[C#] Don't [D] you
_ _ [F#] _ [G] _ Know
But you [F#] know someone You [B] can
_ For [C#] us it was like okay
What have we never done before we've never [B] used a kids choir
And been [C#] really [Bm] creepy
Or we've never had like a twelve piece [Am] orchestra
On stuff [C#] that makes it sound [F#] like it's the end of the [Bm] world
We built this house with our [G] hands
And our [Bm] time
And [F#] our blood _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] Mainly
This record came from
the [Bm] two-year point or one [A#]-year point of marriage
_ and kind of having to grow [A#m] up.
_ _ [D#m] _ _ _ _
[F#] I mean, simple math, that song is a fictional telling
of what I think an affair would be like.
It's really talking about the stirring emotion
of like temptation and lust.
♪ [A#] I tried, _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [A#] _ _ lost and [F#] hardly _ noticed [G#] like [D#m] ♪
_ _ Almost like an affair would lead to the,
well, if I'm gonna give up this thing I believe in,
which is _ _
[A#m] fidelity _ _ and being [D#m] true to this commitment,
[F] then I have to give up [D#m] _ everything else.
♪ _ _ [F#] Superman, _ it's how [C#] our bodies even got [D#m] here ♪
The lyrics saying, simple [D#] math,
this end man plus woman equals new [B] man. Shh. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And so that's where the lyrics saying,
what if all we thought was right was wrong?
The scary idea of like, oh God,
what if I've just been believing the wrong thing forever?
_ [G#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [G#] _ _
[A#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#] _ _
[A#m] _ _ [C] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ ♪ That's how it's done, son, that's how it's done, son ♪
♪ That's how it's done, son _ ♪
This record really [G#] kind of dives into it
and starts to take apart all the things that I was doing,
kind of _ deconstructing this _ monster
that I [C#] sort of like realized that I had [F#] become.
Where I spent some time on other [G#] records blaming _ _ [D#] God
or [F#] blaming other people, this was sort of [G#] like,
all right, _ time to be a man.
♪ That's how it's done, son, that's how it's done, son [D#] ♪
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _
April 1st was like the day I [Fm] came home
and realized that Amy and I [G#] were gonna have to like
really _ work everything out,
cause she had left, she wasn't there.
It's coming home and just everything being gone.
It's like that moment of like, oh God, it's over.
That was the first time I really realized
like maybe, _ maybe I did something here,
which is crazy you would think
that I would be thinking about [G#m] it before.
♪ I don't care, go gouge my eyes out ♪
♪ Spend the rest of [E] my entire life [D#] flying ♪
_ _ _ ♪ Comes to Christy _ _ ♪
[G#] So you guys are good now.
Yeah, we're fantastic, [F#] yeah.
And [N] it's interesting, man,
cause it's kind of, this is so touchy.
It's a really touchy thing to talk about,
to be like, here's, _ you know, here's two years of my life
and I'm so happy, you know, _ _
she's cool with me telling it, you know,
but it's just what I've always done,
is written about, you know, what means the most to me
and that's definitely her.
♪ I [C#] try once, [B] try twice and [F#] I'm done [G#] _ ♪
♪ I am the once and [B] _ irreplaceable [F#] son ♪
When I started writing it,
it wasn't like _ there was an ending to the story.
[G#] So no, I don't think there necessarily is the ending.
It's, it is to be continued.
♪ I've got [F#] the right to be a man ♪ _ _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _