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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
D F#
Hold on tight beginners mind,
Bm A
The wheel is spinning too
Em A
Fast to make your move
F# Bm
The worst must be assumed
D F#
Oh how they'll try to pull and pry
Bm A
Away what you know now
Em A
Beat and beat it out
F# Bm
Leave a drum that makes no sound
G F# Em A
A snuff film on a Jumbo-tron for all the world to see
Em A
A cocktail napkin epitaph
D Bm
Some psychobabble telegram
Em A
Message written in the sand
D Bm
The tide rolls in
Em A
Swear you'll do the opposite
D Bm
Of all those tangled hypocrites
Em A D
Who say that the experiment has failed
Bm
Don't go there
G
You're getting nowhere
A
You're getting nowhere
D F#
Stay a while my inner child
Bm A
I'd like to learn your trick
Em A
Know what makes you tick
F# Bm
Nurse you when you're sick
D F#
Oh how you've grown so cynical
Bm A
Hard lines carved in your face
Em A
The sunshine so cliché
F# Bm
Just like love and pain
G F# Em A
You tried your best on the Rorschach test but there's just nothing to see
Em A
Heard terabytes of perfect pitch
D Bm
Some universal elegance
Em A
Stack the seventh and the fifth
D Bm
Along the grid
Em A
Swear you’ll be the opposite
D Bm
Of all the stilted hypocrites
Em A D Bm
You know what made you infamous to them, don't you?
G
You keep starting over
A
You keep starting over
F#
You keep starting over
Bm
You keep starting over
G
Keep starting over
A
Keep starting over
D F#
Hold on tight beginners mind
Bm A
The currents far too strong
Em A
It will carry you along
F# Bm
Till you're just like everyone
D F#
Stay a while my inner child
Bm A
I'd like to learn your trick
Em A
Know what makes you tick
F# Bm
Nurse you when you're sick
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.