E-Bow The Letter Chords

E-bow The Letter - R.E.M.
 
Chorus riff:
 
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[Intro]
| G | Em | G | Em | G | Em |
 
[Verse 1]
     C                    G
Look up, what do you see? All of you and all of me
Em                      Bm
Fluorescent and starry. Some of them, they surprise
C                       G                              Em
The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m. this letter
                               C
Fields of poppies, little pearls
G                              Em
All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed
               Bm                   C   G
Each and every one a little scary
              Em
I said your name
 
[Verse 2]
                          C
I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars
     G                     Em
Hash bars, cherry mash and tinfoil tiaras
Bm                         C  G
Dreaming of Maria Callas
              Em
Whoever she is
                         C
This fame thing, I don't get it
                  G
I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through it
Em                  Bm                  C   G
Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves
                    Em
I can take you far
                Em
This star thing,  I don't get it
 
 
[Chorus]
| D | Em  G | D             | Em  G |
          I'll take you over, there
             | D                         | Em  G |
               Aluminum, tastes like fear. Adrenaline, it pulls us near
(I'll take you over, there)              (I'll take you over, there)
             | D                         | Em  G |
                         tastes like fear.                             
(I'll take you over, there)              (I'll take you over, there)
 
 
[Verse 3]
C                  G
  Will you live to 83?
Em            Bm
Will you ever welcome me?
         C                        G             Em
Will you show me something that noboby else has seen
                 C                G
Smoke it, drink,  here comes the flood
Em          Bm
Anything to thin the blood
           C                    G           Em
These corrosives do their magic slowly, and sweet
 
               C           G
Phone, eat it, drink, it's just another chink
Em                            Bm
Cuts and dents they catch the light
C           G              Em
  Aluminum,    the weakest link
                           C
I don't want to disappoint you, I'm not
G
Here to anoint you
        Em
I would lick your feet
                Bm                            C
But is that the sickest move, I'd wear my own crown
                 G                               Em
With sadness and sorrow and who'd have thought tomorrow
                     D
Would be so strange?
         Em
My loss, here we go again:
 
[Chorus]
 G             D    Em               D
                                     Aluminum tastes like fear
(I'll take you over,   I'll take you there)
Em          G
Adrenaline, pulls us near
D
  Tastes like fear
Em
  Pulls us near
 
[Bridge]
| G | Em  |    x3
 
Bm      C
   Look up
N.C.
And what do you see all of you and all of me
Fluorescent and starry, some of them they surprise
 
C               G
I can't look it in the eyes
         Em                     Bm
Seconal, Spanish Fly, absinthe, kerosene, 
                 C
Cherry-flavoured neck and collar
                G
I can smell the sorrow on your breath
    Em
The sweat, victory, sorrow, the smell thing
D
  I've got it
 
[Outro]
 G             D    Em               D
                                     Aluminum tastes like fear
(I'll take you over,   I'll take you there)
Em          G
Adrenaline, pulls us near
D
  Tastes like fear
Em
  Pulls us near
D
  Tastes like fear
Em
  Pulls us near
D
  Tastes like fear
Em
  Pulls us near
(Repeat and fade)
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