Myths Made Plain

   G A D Bm or B Em   Em F#m
E|-x-x-x-x----x-x----x--x---------
B|-x-x-x-x----x-x----x--x---------
G|-x-x-7-4----x-x----9--x---------
D|-5-7-7-4----9-2----9--4---------
A|-5-7-5-2----9-2----7--4---------
E|-3-5-x-x----7-0----x--2---------



[Verse 1]
                    A      D      
If you're wondering how we landed 
G
here
                      A        
You were watching the waves and 
 D        G
drinking beer
                  A      D        Bm
You don't even remember standing up
               Em
Truly, I don't either


[Verse 2]
                  A     D     
At some point you waded to your 
  G
waist
                       A      
As you slipped further out the 
 D           G
stakes were raised
                 A           D    
Finally you were surrounded, and 
    Bm
for what?
                   Em
A water darker and deeper


[Chorus 1]
   G        A
In 1997 I became myself
    D                           G
And 20 minutes later I began to melt
    G                         
The cycle I get used to in the 
  A
course of time
Continues after the ad
    D                        
The shifting definitions that 
 G
comprise a life
    G                       A     
The people I become and the people
              D
 I don't recognize


[Verse 3]
                    A   D         
If you're wondering who arranged 
   G
the mess
                     A       D    
Some exceptions were made to 
    G
grant, I guess
                     A       D   
While we all let the peak of the 
Bm
parade
                    Em
The underbelly went lethal


[Chorus 2]
   G             A
In 2007 tried to build a bridge
   D                             G
Between how I was living and how I 
could live
  G                            A
I tricked myself into thinking I'd 
done enough
D                          G
Once I got across I didn't blow it 
up
G                          A     
Yeah, I closed some lanes, all it
                 D
 really takes is one


[Bridge]
        Em         F#m         G
Opening to tear apart all your works
               D         Em       
So fine you are, delicate 
   F#m          G
un-achieve all your half-philosophy
D            Em           
Style points, blind belief a 
F#m             G
whirling perpetuity
D         Em                  
The ocean warm that knows you 
F#m          G
did the same before


[Chorus 3]
      G           A
So in 2017 we did away with facts
D                      G
All negotiation with a battle axe
    G                    A
The gruesome ideology is center 
shame
D                     G
American identity was laid to waste
G
We're backlit and exposed
A                            Bm   
Sugar stripped and it's made clean
 D  Em



[Other]
    G
The people I become
    A                      D
The people I can't replicate