The Center of the World by Bright Eyes Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for The Center of the World guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play The Center of the World by Bright Eyes using guitar or guitar.
This song by Bright Eyes can also be played by that instruments.
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The Center of the World guitar chords has rhythm and included in Fevers and Mirrors (2000) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

The Center of the World by Bright Eyes Guitar Chords


Bright Eyes
the center of the world
standard
mark sheary

Intro some D picking varies a bit

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(one string at a time)

G
At the center of the
Bm
world there’s a statue of a
Am
girl
She is standing near a
C
well with a
D
bucket bare and
G
dry
I went and looked her in the
Bm
eyes and she turned me into
Am
sand
This clumsy form that I des
C
pise, it scattered
D
easy in her
G
hand

It came to rest upon a

Bm
beach with a million others
Am
there
We sat and waited for the
C
sea to stretch out so that
D
we could disap
G
pear
Into the endlessness of
Bm
blue into the horror of the
Am
truth
See, we are far less than we
C
knew, yeah, we are
D
far less than we
Em
knew

Em
But we knew what we could
C
taste
Em
Girls found honey to drench our hands
The men cut marble to mark our
B
graves

B
Said we’ll need something to

(mostly the lower notes for this part)
example:

G
B
Am
C
D

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G
remind us of
All the sweetness that has
B
passed through us
The priests dressed children for a
Em
choir
But found no joy in what was
B
sung
B
The
C
funeral
D
had
D
be
G
gun

G
In the middle of the
Bm
day when you drive home to your
Am
place
C
D
G

Bm

L
Am
ong after night has come to claim any light that still remains
In the corner of the
C
frame
D

(lower notes again for this part)

that you put around her f

G
ace

Two

Bm
pills just weren’t enough
The
Am
alarm clock’s going off but you’re not waking up
This isnt
C
happening happening happening happening
D
happening
It is
G

end riff (something like this)

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If you want to learn Bright Eyes The Center of the World guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play The Center of the World. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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