At the Bottom of Everything — Bright Eyes
Chords and lyrics for At the Bottom of Everything by Bright Eyes (key of C).
Spoken Intro
N.C.
So there was this woman and
She was, uh, on an airplane and
She's flying to meet her fiancé
Sailing high above the, the largest ocean
On planet Earth and she was seated
Next to this man who, you know
She had tried to start conversations
And only, really the only thing
She'd heard him say was to order his bloody mary
And she's sitting there and she's reading
This really arduous magazine article about a
Third world country that she couldn't
Even pronounce the-the name of and
She's feeling very bored and very despondent
And then uh, suddenly there's this huge mechanical failure and one of the
engines gave out
And they started just falling, thirty thousand feet
And the pilot's on the microphone and he's, he's saying
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh my God, I'm sorry"
And apologizing and, and she looks at the man and she says, she says, she
says
(palm muting)
"Where are we going?" and he looks at her and he says
"We're going to a party, it, it's a birthday party
It's your birthday party, happy birthday darling
We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much."
And then, uh, he starts humming this little tune and, and uh, it kind of
goes like this, it's kind of
One, two, one, two, three, four
Intro
[C] [F] [C] [F]
[C]We must talk in every telephone, get [F]eaten off the [C]web
[C]We must rip out all the epilogues from the [F]books that we have [G]read
[C]And in the face of every criminal strapped [F]firmly to a chair
We [C]must stare, we [G]must stare, we [C]must stare
[C]We must take all of the medicines too [F]expensive now to [C]sell
[C]Set fire to the preacher who is [F]promising us [G]hell
And in the [C]ear of every anarchist who [F]sleeps but doesn't dream
We [C]must sing, we [G]must sing, we [C]must sing
[F]While my mother [G]waters plants, my [C]father loads his [F]gun
[F]He says death will give us [G]back to God just [Am]like the setting [F]sun
[G]is returned to the lonesome [C]ocean
[C]We must blend into the choir, [F]singing static with the [C]whole
[C]We must memorize nine numbers and [F]deny we have a [G]soul
And to this [C]endless race from property and [F]privilege to be won
We [C]must run, we [G]must run, we [C]must run
[C]We must hold up in the bunker where the [F]dying soldier [C]laughs
[C]We must stare into a crystal ball and [F]only see the [G]past
And [C]in the caverns of tomorrow with only our [F]flashlights and our love
We [C]must plunge, we [G]must plunge, we [C]must plunge
[F]And then we'll get down there... you know way down to the very bottom of
everything and
We'll see it, oh my God, we'll see it, we'll see it
[F]Oh, my morning's [G]coming back, the [C]whole world's waking [F]up
[F]The city buses [C]swimming past
I'm [Am]happy just [F]because
[G]I've found out I am really no one[C]
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