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It Was Fear Of Myself That Made Me Odd (acoustic)

Alexisonfire

MetalEasy for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Em
C×
D××
Am×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro D (strum 4 times) 
 
 
Verse 
 
Em           C 
   Spinning, arms spread 
     D               C 
Crushing the tops of mountains 
        Em 
With my hands  
     C               D 
As I dive into the Pacific 
  C                   Em 
I flood the shoreli-i-ines 
        C 
And I exhale 
D           C               Em 
Causing the oceans' endless waves 
     C 
As I emerge 
            D        Am           D 
Shaking the wreckage from my ha-a-air 
        C (let ring) Em 
With my hands 
 
 
Bridge 
 
Em 
I want to breathe 
Em                 C 
Life into the Dead Sea 
 
Em        C   D 
  As this rainforest 
              Em 
Falls beneath my knees 
       C 
I want to breathe 
D            
Life into the Dead Sea 
 
Em 
*Below, where is your boat? 
C 
You are slow, you are slow* 
 
Em 
*Below, where is your boat? 
D 
You are slow* 
 
 
verse 2 
 
Em                           C 
*I will play until the sky is black 
                   D 
Breathe in all the air 
           C                      Em  
Exhale and choke the land with carbon burn it all 
 
C                          D 
  Looking down from where I stand 
C                              Em 
I can see the curvature of the Earth 
      C               D   C 
And I want to make it flat 
 
 
Outro 
 
Em     C         D      C 
I will play, the sky is black 
Em     C         D      C 
I will play, the sky is black 
Em               Em  
I will play, the sky is black* 
          
 

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Chord set

Em · C · D · Am

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.