Now: Navigate!
My first attempt at writing out some chords! The song is easiest if thought of in 6/8
time. Just think of usually playing the chords on counts 1,2,3,4, and for the muted
strumming to be on counts 5 and 6. Note, the chords don't line up over the proper words,
something is screwing up with the font, so just figure out the harmonic rhythm.
Intro: D D D D
DDDD
There are tiers, as in levels, to reality
GGDD
On the industrial corner of North 17th Street and Wythe
AGDBm
Two black public high school kids watch a nordic model get photographed
BAGADD
To them, she is lunar, impossible, alien life.
DDDD
So as a comet might relate to a traffic-stop taxi cab
GGDD
Or a Bahamas vacation to a stint in Guantanamo Bay
AGDBm
So as access and privilege relate to their absolute opposites
BAGADD
It's the way that these kids and this woman will always relate
GD
And it's nobody's fault. Yeah no one's to blame.
AEm
We all work through the dark. We all carry the weight.
BDFBm
Slender shoulders and blindfolds spinning in cycles
BAGADDDD
Now, now, now: navigate!
DDDD
There are tiers, as in layers, to an experience.
GGDD
Through each lens and metric the image warps every day.
AGDBm
I'm either successful, independent, and largely uncompromised
BAGADD
Or a non-starter, never-was, has-been since 2008.
GD
And it's nobody's fault. Yeah no one's to blame.
EA
We all work through the dark. We all carry the weight.
BDFBm
Slender shoulders and blindfolds spinning in cycles
BAGAG
Now, now, now: navigate!
Instrumental: x2
AGDAD//////////)
DD
D D D D
There are tears, as in water-works, and they're threatening
G G D D
To spoil the negotiated sweetness of my afternoon
AGDBm
I can't answer anything honestly without an asterisk
BAGADD
Air-quotes and doublespeak litter the fountain of youth.
GD
And if it's nobody's fault, then I'm not to blame
EA
I just work in the dark, I just carry the weight.
BDFBm
Slender shoulders and blindfolds stranded in cycles
BAGADDDD
Now, now, now: navigate!
End on a D and that's it!