Alien

Alien Guitar Chords

The National
Album : First Two Pages of Frankenstein

Key : Am

    [Intro]
| Am     |
| Am     | F      | C      | Gadd11  G |
 
 
[Verse 1]
Am                          F
 Try not to worry there's a voiceover
C          Gadd11      G
 Go on, go quiet for a change
Am                    F
 We can dial down the daylight a little
C                             Gadd11           G
 I think the candy blue sky's messing with our brains
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Am                    F
 We must have hit our heads
                      C
Don't expect familiar feelings
                           G
No one knows what to talk about
                               Dm
Just come lay down here on the couch
 
 
[Chorus]
          C
Drop down out of the clouds you're in
Em        G
 Drop down like an alien
Dm                C
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in
Em        G
 Drop down like an alien
 
 
[Post-Chorus]
| Am     | Fmaj7  | C      | G      |
 
 
[Verse 2]
Am                              Fmaj7
 I'll find you something fun to wear
                              C
That goes along with all your feelings
                   G
We'll go extremely vivid
                    Am
Buttoned up and unrevealing
                       Fmaj7
I can be your nurse or something
                         C
Bring you watermelon nicotine
                     G                       Am
I can hold a swimmer here to the shore by a string
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
                        Fmaj7
Hurry up, we don't have time
                 C
Avalanches in my mind
                           G
I'm getting buried in this dream
                         Dm
It's just as soapy as it seems
 
 
[Chorus]
          C
Drop down out of the clouds you're in
Em        G
 Drop down like an alien
Dm                C
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in
Em        G
 Drop down like an alien
 
 
[Bridge]
Am                     F
 There's this one old idea I'm having
C                        G                        Am
 Stuck in a car wash somewhere and you can't stop laughing
                          F
Off the rails and no one's coming to get us
C                          Gadd11          G
 I think I like it here, so I'm gonna let 'em forget us
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm                       C
 Hurry up, we don't have time
                 Em
Avalanches in my mind
                           G
I'm getting buried in this dream
                         F
It's just as soapy as it seems
 
 
[Chorus]
          C
Drop down out of the clouds you're in
G
 Drop down like an alien
F                 C
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in
Dm        C        G
 Drop down like an alien
 
 
[Guitar Solo]
| F      | C      | Dm     | C   G  |
| F      | C      | Dm     | C   G  |
 
 
[Chorus]
F          C
 Drop down out of the clouds you're in
Dm        C        G
 Drop down like an alien
F                 C
 I'll go outside, cry, and come right back in
Dm        C        G     F
 Drop down like an alien