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The National - Alien Chords

[intro]
Cm
Cm   G#  D#    A#

[verse 1]
Cm                          G#
 Try not to worry there's a voiceover
D#           A#
 Go on, go quiet for a change
Cm                    G#
 We can dial down the daylight a little
D#
 I think the candy blue sky's
     A#
messing with our brains

[pre-chorus]
Cm                    G#
 We must have hit our heads
                      D#
Don't expect familiar feelings
                           A#
No one knows what to talk about
                               Fm
Just come lay down here on the couch

[chorus]
          D#
Drop down out of the clouds you're in
Gm        A#
 Drop down like an alien
Fm                D#
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in
Gm        A#
 Drop down like an alien

[post-chorus]
Cm  G#maj7  D#  A#

[verse 2]
Cm                              G#maj7
 I'll find you something fun to wear
                              D#
That goes along with all your feelings
                   A#
We'll go extremely vivid
                    Cm
Buttoned up and unrevealing
                       G#maj7
I can be your nurse or something
                         D#
Bring you watermelon nicotine

I can hold a swimmer
A#                       Cm
here to the shore by a string

[pre-chorus]
                        G#maj7
Hurry up, we don't have time
                 D#
Avalanches in my mind
                           A#
I'm getting buried in this dream
                         Fm
It's just as soapy as it seems

[chorus]
          D#
Drop down out of the clouds you're in
Gm        A#
 Drop down like an alien
Fm                D#
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in
Gm        A#
 Drop down like an alien

[bridge]
Cm                     G#
 There's this one old idea I'm having
D#                        A#
 Stuck in a car wash somewhere
                   Cm
and you can't stop laughing
                          G#
Off the rails and no one's coming to get us
D#
 I think I like it here,
            A#
so I'm gonna let 'em forget us

[pre-chorus]
Fm                       D#
 Hurry up, we don't have time
                 Gm
Avalanches in my mind
                           A#
I'm getting buried in this dream
                         G#
It's just as soapy as it seems

[chorus]
          D#
Drop down out of the clouds you're in
A#
 Drop down like an alien
G#                 D#
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in
Fm        D#        A#
 Drop down like an alien

[guitar solo]
G#  D#  Fm  D#  A#
G#  D#  Fm  D#  A#

[chorus]
G#          D#
 Drop down out of the clouds you're in
Fm        D#        A#
 Drop down like an alien
G#                 D#
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in
Fm        D#        A#     G#
 Drop down like an alien

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