Bright Eyes - Beginners mind
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Capo: 4
This is the correct version of Beginner’s Mind that Conor uses live.
Track 8 of The People's Key, Bright Eyes' final album.
Capo 4
DHold on tight beF#ginners mind,
TheBm wheel is spinning Atoo
EmFast to make your moveA
The F#worst must be asBmsumed
Oh Dhow they'll try to F#pull and pry
BmAway what you know Anow
EmBeat and beat it out A
Leave a F#drum that makes no sound Bm
A Gsnuff film on aF# Jumbo-tron forEm all the world to see A
A Emcocktail napkin Aepitaph
Some Dpsychobabble Bmtelegram
MEmessage written in the Asand
TheD tide rolls inBm
EmSwear you'll do the Aopposite
Of Dall those tangled Bmhypocrites
Who Emsay that the exAperiment has Dfailed
BmDon't go there
GYou're getting nowhere
AYou're getting nowhere
DStay a while my iF#nner child
I'd Bmlike to learn your Atrick
EmKnow what makes you tickA
F#Nurse you when you're sBmick
Oh Dhow you've grown so F#cynical
Hard Bmlines carved in your faceA
The Emsunshine so clich?A?
Just like F#love and Bmpain
You Gtried your best on theF# Rorschach test but there's Emjust nothing to seeA
HeardEm terabytes of Aperfect pitch
Some Duniversal eleganceBm
EmStack the seventh and the Afifth
ADlong the gridBm
EmSwear you’ll be the opAposite
Of Dall the stilted Bmhypocrites
You Emknow what made you Ainfamous to Dthem, Bmdon't you?
GYou keep starting over
AYou keep starting over
F#You keep starting over
BmYou keep starting over
GKeep starting over
AKeep starting over
DHold on tight beF#ginners mind
The cuBmrrents far too sAtrong
It will Emcarry you along A
Till you're F#just like everyone Bm
DStay a while my F#inner child
I'd Bmlike to learn yourA trick
EmKnow what makes you tickA
F#Nurse you when you're sBmick
G F# Em A
The other Capo 1 version of this song has the right tonality, but in the wrong
Capo position. I use Barre chords on the F#, Bm, G and the A chord for the
“getting nowhere” and “starting over” lines to give it a fuller sound.