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Lazy Projector

Andrew Bird

RockMedium for beginners8 chords

How to play it

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

G
D××
A×
Em
F#7Diagram coming soon
Bm×
E
A7×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro:  G D A Em G D F#7 G (2x)  
 
 
G           D             A            Em  
If memory serves us, then who owns the master 
G          D          F#7            G  
How do we know who's projecting this reel 
 
G           D             A            Em  
And is it like gruel or like quick drying plaster 
G          D          F#7            G  
Tell me how long til the paint starts to peel 
 
             Em           ?D       F#7            Bm  
Is it like Pyramus or Apollo or an archer we don't know 
       Em         ?D               F#7            G 
Though history repeats itself, and time's a crooked bow 
                                   Bm           A 
Come on tell us something we don't know 
 
G D A Em G D F#7 G  
 
 
 
G           D             A            Em  
Now who's the best boy and the casting director 
G          D          F#7            G  
And the editor splicing your face from the scene 
G           D             A            Em  
It's all in the hands of a lazy projector 
G                     D         F#7   G  
That forgetting, embellishing, lying machine 
G                     D         F#7   G  
That forgetting, embellishing, lying machine 
 
D G  
 
                  D      
 They say all good things must come to an end 
     G                           
 Everyday the night must fall 
D                            G  
 How it all came to this, I simply can't recall 
          D 
 Too many cooks in the kitchen 
 G 
 How the mighty must fall 
    D                           G 
But I can't see the sense in us breaking up at all 
D                           G 
I can't see the sense in us breaking up at all 
D                          G    
I can't see the sense in us breaking up at all 
E               A7 
Breaking up at all 
 
G           D             A            Em  
And it's all in the hands of a lazy projector 
G                     D         F#7   G  
That forgetting, embellishing, lying machine 
          
 

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Chord set

G · D · A · Em · F#7 · Bm · E · A7

Practice tip

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