Artist: Death Cab for Cutie
Album: The Open Door EP
Title: My Mirror Speaks
Intro: C#m E A E x2
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Verse 1:
C#m A E
With every sun that sets I am feeling more
A E B
Like a stranger on a foreign shore
C#m A B A E
With an eroding beach disappearing from under me
C#m A E
And when my mirror speaks it never minces words
A E B
That these eyes don't shine half as bright
C#m A E A E
As they used to do and they haven't for quite a while
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Chorus:
A E
'Cause I'm a man who hides from all that binds
A E
In a mess of fading lines
A E
And there's a tangled thread inside my head
G#m A
With nothing on either end
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Verse 2:
C#m A E
I always fall in love with an open door
A E B
Or the horizon on an endless sea
C#m A E A E
As I look around the ones who are standing right in front of me
C#m A E
And then my mirror speaks with irreverence
A E B
Like a soldier I can't command
C#m A E A E
It sees the frightened child in the body of a full-grown man
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Chorus 2:
A E
And he's a man who hides from all that binds
A E
In a mess of fading lines
A E
And there's a tangled thread inside his head
G#m A
With nothing on either end
C#m G#m A
There's nothing on either end
E
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Solo: C#m A E A E B C#m A E A E
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There is two ways you can play the bridge. I like option 1:
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Option 1:
B B/A B/G# B/C#
A new position for a different view
B B/A B/G# B/C#
But nothing changes but the slightest hues
B B/A B/G# B/C# B
When I am standing face to face
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Option 2:
B A G# C#m
A new position for a different view
B A G# C#m
But nothing changes but the slightest hues
B A G# C#m B
When I am standing face to face
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Chorus 3:
A E
With a man who hides from all that binds
A E
And a mess of fading lines
A E
And there's a tangled thread inside his head
G#m A
With nothing on either end
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A E
I'm a man who hides from all that binds
A E
And a mess of fading lines
A E
And there's a tangled thread inside my head
G#m A
With nothing on either end
(2X)
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C#m G#m A
There's nothing on the ends
C#m A E
No there's nothing on the ends
End on E.