Method Acting

# #Method Acting: # Em B7 There's no beginning to the story, a bookshelf sinks into the sand C G Fm7 (200230) And a language learned and forgot, in turn, is studied once again Em B7 It's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen C G Fm7 You can squint out into snowy static to make out the meaning Em B7 And keep on stretching the antenna hoping that it will come clear C G Fm7 We need some reception, a higher message, just tell us what to fear Am D G D C 'Cause I don't know what tomorrow brings Am D G D C It's alive with such possibilities Am D G D C All I know is I feel better when I sing D Burdens are lifted from me Em B7 C G That's my voice rising Em B7 C G Em B7 C G Em B7 So, Michael, please keep the tape rolling, boys keep strumming those guitars C G Fm7 We need a record of our failures, yes, we must document our love Em B7 I've sat too long in my silence, I've grown too old in my pain C G Fm7 To shed this skin, be born again, it starts with an ending Am D G D C So thank you, friends, for the time we shared An D G D C My love stays with you like sunlight and air An D G D C And though I truly wish I could keep hanging around here D My joy is covering me Em B7 C G Soon, I will disappear Em B7 C G C It's not a movie Em No private screening Am This method acting D Well, I call that living C It's like a fountain Em A door has opened Am We have a problem D With no solution C B7 But to love and to be loved Am D G D C So I've made peace with the falling leaves Am D G D C I see their same fate in my own body Am D G D C But I won't be frightened when I'm awoken from this dream D And returned to that which Em B7 C G Gave birth to me Em B7 C G Gave birth to me Gave birth to me Gave birth to me And the story goes And the story goes And it goes on and on and on and on It's going on and on and on and on