Songbook

I Believe in Symmetry

By Bright Eyes

Key of G

G                   Am
Some plans were made and rice was thrown
  C                  D
A house was built, a baby born
    C                  D
How time can move both fast and slow
  G
Amazes me

         G                 Am
And so I raise my glass to symmetry
       C                   D
To the second hand and its accuracy
       C              D
To the actual size of everything
    G
The desert is the sand

                  Em
You can't hold it in your hand
                C
It won't bow to your demands
           Am
There's no difference you can make
           D
There's no difference you can make

                        Em
And if it seems like an accident
             C
A collage of senselessness
           Am
You aren't looking hard enough
         D
I wasn't looking hard enough

   C
At it

G

   G            Am
An argument for consciousness
    C               D
The instinct of the blind insect
    C                 D
Who makes love to the flower bed
    G
And dies in the first freeze

     G                  Am
Oh I want to learn such simple things
   C            D
No politics, no history
     C               D
Till what I want and what I need
    G
Can finally be the same

             Em
I just got myself to blame
              C
Is everything up to fate
             Am
When there's choices I could make
             D
When there's choices I could make

                       Em
Yeah, my heart needs a polygraph
                   C
Always so eager to pack my bags
       Am
When I really wanna stay
       D
When I really wanna stay

       Em
When I wanna stay
       C
When I wanna stay
       Am
When I wanna stay
       D
When I wanna stay

G

    G
The arc of time, the stench of sex
    G                      Gmaj7
The innocence you can't protect
     D
Each quarter note, each marble step
     D
Walk up and down that lonely treble clef

C
  Each wanting the next one
G
  Each wanting the next one to arrive
C
  Each wanting the next one
G
  Each wanting the next one to arrive

   G
An argument for consciousness
    G               Gmaj7
The instinct of the blind insect
    D
Who never thinks not to accept
    D
Its fate, that's fate, that's happiness and death

C
  You get to the next one
G
  You get to the next on down the line
C
  You get to the next one
G
  You get to the next on down the line

    G
The remedy of longing that
  G                         Gmaj7
Distills each dream and the song I had
   D
By morning watered down again
   D
On silver stars I wish and wish and wish

C
  Move on to the next one
G
  Move on to the next one down the line
C
  Move on to the next one
G
  Move on to the next one down the line
C
  You get to the next one
G
  You get to the next on down the line
C
  You get to the next one
G
  You get to the next on down the line