The Alien Tabulatur von Manchester Orchestra (für Baryton)

Am                              D
The lights were low enough, you guessed
                 G                                C
You swapped your conscience with your fathers medication
Am                          D
Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville
           G                               C
And on the way wrote out a self-made declaration
Am                           D
And when you got to Pleasant Hill
               G                            C
You forced the traffic to erase your family demons
Am                           D
And made a pact with you and God
             G                             C
If you don't move I swear to you I'm gonna make ya

       C    Em
Do you need me?
       G    C
Do you need me?
       C    Em
Do you need me?
       G    C
Do you need me?

Am                       D
When the first officer arrived
               G                                C
It happened to be the high school bully of your brother
Am                    D
When you finally recognized
              G                               C
You felt some guilt that you had even let him touch you
Am                           D
Can you hear me? What's your name?
              G                                 C
You could not speak just laid amazed at all the damage
Am                               D
And as the high school's letting out
        G                                    C
All the kids saying the same thing that they used to

        C   Em
It's an alien
        G   C
It's an alien
        C   Em
It's an alien
        G   C
It's an alien

Am                             D
The lights are low enough, you guessed
         G                              C
Hospital food, there's never enough medication
Am                          D
The doctor asked about your ears
              G                                 C
You said your mom said you were made from a revelation
Am                   D
The revelation never scares
       G                                        C
If you came from your drunken dad and a pair of scissors
Am                       D
You just finally letting go?
        G                                 C
Did you mean to take out all those people with you?

       C    Em
Didn't mean to
       G    C
Didn't mean to
       C    Em
Didn't mean to
       G    C
Didn't mean to

            C    Em
Oh I didn't mean to (Oh I didn't take the time to learn to let you go)
            G    C
Oh I didn't mean to (Never letting go)
            C    Em
No I didn't mean to (Oh I didn't take the time to learn to let you go)
            G    C
Oh I didn't mean to (Never letting go)

Am                                                                 G
Time is here to take your last amendments and believe them on your own
Am                                                        G
Time is here to take you by the hand and leave you there alone
Am                                                              G
Time has come to take the last commandment and to carve it into stone
Am                                                        G
Time has come to take you by the hand and leave you here alone