Chords for Manchester Orchestra – The Alien (LIVE)

_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ The lights were low enough, you [C#] guess You swapped your [F#] conscience with your father's
[B] medication Limped _ [G#m] _ from Rome to [C#] Lawrenceville
And on [F#] the way rode out a self-made [B] declaration When _ [G#m] you got to Pleasant [C#] Hill _
You forced [F#] the traffic to erase your family [B] demons
_ _ [G#m] Made a pact with you [C#] and God If you [F#] don't move, I swear to you I'm [B] gonna make you
Do you need _ [D#m] me? _
_ [F#] Do you need me?
[B] _
_ Do you need _ [D#m] me? _
_ [F#] Do you need _ [B] me?
_ _ [G#m] When the first officer [C#] arrived It [F#] happened to be the high school bully [B] of
your brother When [G#m] _ you finally [C#] recognized
You [F#] felt some guilt that you had even [B] let him touch you
_ _ [G#m] _ Can you hear me?
What's your [C#] name?
You [F#] could not speak, just slayed and maced at [B] all the damage
_ _ [G#m] _ And as the high [C#] school's letting out All [F#] the kids are saying the same thing that
they [B] used to
_ It's an _ _ [D#m] alien _
_ [F#] It's an _ alien
[B] _
_ It's an _ [D#m] alien _
_ [F#] It's an _ alien
[B] _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [G#m] The lights are low enough, [C#] you guessed Hospital [F#] food, there's never enough [B] medication _
_ _ [G#m] The doctor asked about [C#] your ears He said [F#] your mom said you were made from [B] revelation _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ Revelation never [C#] scares Your fear [F#] came from your drunken dad and a
[B] pair of scissors
_ _ [G#m] Will you just finally let [C#] him go? _
Or did [F#] he mean to take out all those [B] people with you?
_ Didn't mean _ [D#m] to _
_ [F#] Didn't mean _ [B] to _
_ Didn't mean _ _ [D#m] to _
_ [F#] Didn't mean _ _ [B] to
Oh, why didn't he mean [D#m] to? _
Oh, why [F#] didn't he [B] mean to?
Oh, why didn't he _ mean [D#m] to? _
Oh, why [F#] didn't he _ [B] mean to? _
_ [G#m] Ooh
Well, _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G#m] time is here to take your last amendments and believe them [F#] on your own _ _ _ _
_ [G#m] Yeah, time is here to take you by the hand and leave [F#] you there alone _ _ _ _
You won't ever
[G#m] Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it in [F#] your stone _ _ _
_ _ Yeah, [G#m] time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there [F#] alone _ _ _