Bad Books – Myths Made Plain chords

[Verse 1]
                    A      D      GIf you're wondering how we landed here
                      A         D        GYou were watching the waves and drinking beer
                  A      D        BYou don't even remember standing up
               ETruly, I don't either


[Verse 2]
                  A     D       GAt some point you waded to your waist
                       A       D           GAs you slipped further out the stakes were raised
                 A           D        BFinally you were surrounded, and for what?
                   EA water darker and deeper


[Chorus 1]
   G        AIn 1997 I became myself
    D                           GAnd 20 minutes later I began to melt
    G                           AThe cycle I get used to in the course of time
    D                         GThe shifting definitions that comprise a life
    G                       A                   DThe people I become and the people I don't recognize


[Verse 3]
                    A   D            GIf you're wondering who arranged the mess
                     A       D        GSome exceptions were made to grant, I guess
                     A       D   BWhile we all let the peak of the parade
                    EThe underbelly went lethal


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


[Bridge]
        E          F#          GOpening to tear apart all your works
               D         E          F#           GSo fine you are, delicate un-achieve all your half-philosophy
D            E            F#             GStyle points, blind belief a whirling perpetuity
D         E                   F#           GThe ocean warm that knows you did the same before


[Chorus 3]
      G           ASo in 2017 we did away with facts
D                      GAll negotiation with a battle axe
    G                    AThe gruesome ideology is center shame
D                     GAmerican identity was laid to waste
GWe're backlit and exposed
A                            B    D  ESugar stripped and it's made clean


[Outro]
    GThe people I become
    A                      DThe people I can't replicate