Your Mind Is Not Your Friend
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: CCapotraste: Sem capotraste
As recorded by The National feat. Phoebe Bridgers
(From the 2023 Album FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN)
[Intro]
Dm F C G
Dm F C G
[Verse 1]
Dm F C G
Your imagination
Dm F C G
Is in an awful place
Dm F C G
Don't believe in manifestation
Dm F C G
Your heart'll break
[Chorus]
F C
Don't you understand?
Am G
Your mind is not your friend again
F C
It takes you by the hand
Am G
And leaves you nowhere
[Verse 2]
Dm F C G
You feel it in your nerves
Dm F C G
It's chokin' out the sun
Dm F C G
You try in vain to be persuaded
Dm F C G
That it's nothin'
[Chorus]
F C
Don't you understand?
Am G
Your mind is not your friend again
F C
It takes you by the hand
Am G
And leaves you nowhere
F C
You are like a child
Am G
You're gonna flip your lid again
F C
Don't you understand?
Am G Dm
Your mind is not your friend
[Verse 3]
F Am G Dm F
You inherited a fortune
Am G Dm F
From your mother's side
G Dm F Am
Your sister didn't get it at all
G
She survived
[Interlude]
Dm F C G Dm F C G
[Verse 4]
Dm F C G
Tranquilize the oceans
Dm F C G
Between the poles
Dm F C G
You're crawling under rocks
G Dm F C G
And climbing into holes
[Chorus]
F C
Don't you understand?
Am G
Your mind is not your friend again
F C
It takes you by the hand
Am G
And leaves you nowhere
F C
You are like a child
Am G
You're gonna flip your lid again
F C
Don't you understand?
Am G Dm F
Your mind is not your friend
[Bridge]
Am G Dm F
Your mind is not your friend
Am G Dm F
Your mind is not your friend
Am G Dm F
Your mind is not your friend (Your friend)
Am G
Your mind is not your friend
[Out-Chorus]
Dm F
Don't you understand?
Am G
Your mind is not your friend again
Dm F
It takes you by the hand
Am G
And leaves you nowhere
Dm F
You are like a child
Am G
You're gonna flip your lid again
Dm F
Don't you understand?
Am G
Your mind is not your friend
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