Songbook

Australia

By The Shins

Key of E

Verse:
  E C#m F#m A G#m
  E C#m F#m A B
Chorus:
  (B) E B E B
  C#m A C#m A
  E F#m A
  G#m B
Final Chorus:
  (B) E B E B
  C#m A C#m A
  E F#m A
  G#m BTODO:

E

E               C#m
   Born to multiply or
                  F#m
Born to gaze into night skies
        A               G#m
All you want's one more Saturday
E                      C#m
   But look here until then
                       F#m
They're gonna buy your life's time
             A
So keep your wick in the air
         B
And your feet in the fetters 'til the day

                   E
They come in doing cartwheels
                       B
We all crawl out by ourselves
                      E
And your shape on the dance floor
                           B
Will have me thinking such filth I'll gouge my eyes
         C#m          A
You'd be damned to be one of us girl
C#m           A
   Faced with dodo's conundrum
E  F#m                        A
I      felt like I could just fly
    G#m                          B
But nothing happened every time I tried

E                     C#m
   Oh, duotone on the wall
                                 F#m
The selfless fool who hoped he'd save us all
         A              G#m
He never dreamt of such sterile hands
E                               C#m
   You keep them folded in your lap
                     F#m
And raise them up to beg for scraps
              A                         B
You know he's holding you down with the tips of his fingers just the same

                            E
Will you be pulled from the ocean
                      B
But just a minute too late
                E
Or changed by a potion
                         B
To find a handsome young mate for you to love

          C#m                          A
You'll be damned to pining through the window panes,
      C#m                            A        E   F#m
and oh you'd trade your life for any ordinary Joe's
                              A
And though your night will go on
                G#m                          B
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold

E C#m F#m A G#m
E C#m F#m E B

Been alone since you were twenty-one
E
   You haven't laughed since January
B
   You try and make like this is so much fun
E
   But we know it to be quite contrary
B
   La la la la la la la
C#m        A
Dare to be one of us girl
C#m               A
   Faced with the android's conundrum
E  F#m                         A
I      feel like I should just cry
    G#m                          A
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
    G#m
You hammer in your code
               A
You don't know how long I have been
G#m                    A
Watching the latern dim
G#m              A
Starved of oxygen
   F#m                         A            B      E
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window.