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The Family Secret

Cage The Elephant

RockMedium for beginners9 chords

How to play it

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

C×
E
G
A×
Dm××
Am×
F#Diagram coming soon
GmDiagram coming soon
D××

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro 
C E G A Dm G E Am G hold 
 
Verse 
Blue eyes 
C 
I know 
E 
Blue eyes 
G 
How?d you get so cold? 
A                       Dm 
Cause I don?t know why 
G 
Blue eyes 
C 
I know 
E 
Blue eyes 
G 
will you ever get back home? 
               A      Dm 
         To the love 
                F# 
                Of your life 
                        G 
Interlude 
Am Dm G 
 
Verse 
Mother Father 
Am    Dm 
        Please forgive me 
        G 
 I don?t want ta 
Am    Dm 
        Be a bother 
        G 
The fire?s Burnin? 
Am        Dm 
 I?m a furnace 
 G  
I?m still breathing 
 G  
Guess I?m a burden 
G  
 We don?t talk about it 
Am 
We don?t talk about anything 
A 
We don?t talk about 
       Gm 
The family secret 
Dm 
The family secret 
G 
 
Interlude 
Am Dm G Am Dm G 
 
Verse 
Can?t remember a thing ?cause I never look back 
Am                           Dm 
 I?m just pushing my weight of my foot on the gas 
G                              G 
 Adding up fast but who?s keeping track 
Am                           Dm 
I wanna move forward but I?m tied to the past 
G                              G 
The inbox is full but I don?t take a look 
Am                           Dm 
 I just hit "deny" and "delete" on the book 
G                              G 
 Oh classic games we sit and we wait 
Am                           Dm 
Put on a show then isolate 
G 
Put on a show then isolate 
G 
Put on a show then isolate 
G 
Help me Jesus 
G 
So help me Jesus 
G 
 We don?t talk about it 
Am 
We don?t talk about anything 
A 
We don?t talk about 
       Gm 
The family secret 
Dm 
The family secret 
G 
Where?s the door? 
G 
Miniature doors 
Dm 
Oh where?s the door? 
G 
Oh here?s the floor 
Dm 
 
*spazz on Dm for a bit* 
 
Am 
 
And I don?t know where I?m headed 
Am 
But I do know how to wave goodbye 
Am                            G 
How hard will I fall 
G 
How deep will we dive 
E 
down in the gutter 
Am 
'Fore it?s too late to change our minds 
Am                               G 
And one and one and two 
G                     Dm 
At least not all the time 
                        G 
Not always black and white 
G 
In between the lines 
E 
 
Interlude 
Am 
 
Blue eyes 
C 
I know 
E 
Blue eyes 
G 
How?d you get so cold? 
                      Dm 
Said I really don?t know why 
G 
 
Blue eyes 
C 
I know 
E 
Blue eyes 
Gm 
Will we ever get back home? 
A                     D 
To the love of our life? 
Dm                 G 
 
Why don?t we just talk about it? 
Am 
 Why don?t we just talk about anything? 
A 
 We don?t talk about 
G 
 
The family secret 
cut. 
          
 

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Chord set

C · E · G · A · Dm · Am · F# · Gm · D

Practice tip

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