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These are the chords for Spud Infinity by Big Thief on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Intro]
G Am C
G Am C G

[Chorus]
                Em G
What’s it gonna take?
                Em G
What’s it gonna take?
                Em G
What’s it gonna take
C  G    C   G C  D    C G
To free the celestial body?

[Verse 1]
G
 From way up there it 
 looks so small
Am
 From way down here it 
 looks so small
C                             
 One peculiar organism aren’t 
                  G
 we all together?
G
 Everybody steps on ants
Am
 Everybody eats the plants
C                              
 Everybody knows to dance even 
                       G
 with just one finger

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[Chorus]
                Em G
What’s it gonna take?
                Em G
What’s it gonna take?
                Em G
What’s it gonna take
C  G    C   G C  D    C G
To free the celestial body?

[Verse 2]
G
 When I took another look
Am
 The past was not a history book
C                   
 That was just some 
                   G
 linear perception
G
 Ash to ask and dust to dusk
  Am
A dime a dozen aren’t we just?
     C                     
But a dozen dimes will buy 
           G
a crust of garlic bread

[Chorus]
                Em G
What’s it gonna take?
                Em G
What’s it gonna take?
                Em G
What’s it gonna take
C  G    C   G C  D    C G
To free the celestial body?

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[Solo]
G Am C G (2x)

[Verse 3]
G
 When I say celestial
Am
I mean extra-terrestrial
C                                 
I mean accepting the alien you’ve 
                 G
rejected in your own heart
       G
When I say heart, I mean finish
    Am
The last one there 
is a potato kinish
C                      
Baking too long in the 
              G
sun of Spud Infinity
       G
When I say infinity I mean now
Am
Kiss the one you are right now
C                           
Kiss your body up and down, 
                G
other than your elbows
       G
\'Cause as for your elbows 
they’re on their own
Am
 Wandering like a rolling stone
C                   
 Rubbing up against 
                 G
 the edges of experience

[Chorus]
                Em G
What’s it gonna take?
                Em G
What’s it gonna take?
                Em G
What’s it gonna take
C  G    C   G C  D    C G
To free the celestial body?

[Outro]
Em G (12x)

These are the chords for Certainty by Big Thief on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Intro]
G C G Em

[Verse 1]
G                 C
Name on the line, last request
G                    Em
Pull the car over to find 
some rest
D
Saying “I love you”
Bm                C
Need to lie here, need to leave
G                     Em
Living in the debt of make believe
Am
Saying I owe you
C
Crooked as a crow gnawing on dawn
G                            Em
Shadow from the grass in the dirt 
on the lawn
Am        C
Why do I string you along?

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[Chorus]
D                   G   C   D
 My certainty is wild, weaving
                    G   C   D
For you I am a child, believing
                    D7     
You lay beside me sleeping 
      G
on a plain
       C       D
In the future

[Verse 2]
G                 C
Sit on the phone, watch TV
G                Em
Romance, action, mystery
D
Wanted to show you
Bm             C
Sine wave is a particle ride
G                         Em
Bring your light out then in 
on the tide
Am
Maybe I love you
C
Maybe I love you is 
a river so high
G                     Em
Maybe I love you is a river 
so low
Am           C
I love you, still don’t know

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[Chorus]
D                   G   C   D
 My certainty is wild, weaving
                    G   C   D
For you I am a child, believing
                    D7     
You lay beside me sleeping 
      G
on a plain
       C       D
In the future

[Instrumental Break]
G C G Em D
Bm C G Em
Am C
G Em
Am C

[Chorus]
D                   G   C   D
 My certainty is wild, weaving
                    G   C   D
For you I am a child, believing
                    D7     
You lay beside me sleeping 
      G
on a plain
       C       D
In the future

These are the chords for Sadness As A Gift by Big Thief on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Intro]
A

[Verse 1]
A       A/G#    F#m
You and I both know
F#m      D               A
There is nothing more to say
D               A
Chances shutter shining eyes
    E            Bm
And turn to face away

[Chorus 1]
D                     A
Leaning on the window sill
A                  D       
You could write me someday 
                A
and I think you will
A                D       
We could see the sadness 
    D/C#     Bm
as a gift and still
         E
Feel too heavy to hold

[Verse 2]
A    A/G#   F#m
Snow falling
F#m    D            A
Try to keep from calling
D                A
Watch the spring turn to winter
E              Bm
Fireflies all frozen

[Chorus 2]
D              A
The seasons go fast
A             D                  A
Thinking that this one was gonna last
A         D        
Maybe the question 
    D/C#        Bm      E
was too much to ask

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[Verse 3]
A         A/G#      F#m
Searching for your eyes
F#m           D          A
All I see are blue skies
A         D      
And that old man 
           A
beats his crooked cane
     E           Bm
It\'s time to let go

[Chorus 1]
D                     A
Leaning on the window sill
A                  D       
You could write me someday 
              A
and I bet you will
A                D       
We could see the sadness 
    D/C#      Bm
as a gift and still
         E
Feel too heavy to hold

[Chorus 2]
D                 A
The seasons go so fast
A             D    
Thinking that this 
              A
one was gonna last
A         D        
Maybe the question 
    D/C#        Bm      E
was too much to ask

[Verse 4]
A       A/G#    F#m
You and I could see
F#m      D          A
Into the same eternity
D            A        E          Bm
Every second brimming with a majesty

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[Chorus 3]
D                 A
Kiss so sweet, so fine
A                  D     
You could hear the music 
          A
inside my mind
A       D           D/C#     Bm
And you showed me a place to find
E
Even when I\'m old

[Chorus 1]
D                     A
Leaning on the window sill
A                  D       
You could write me someday 
               A
and I hope you will
A                D       
We could see the sadness 
     D/C#      Bm
as a gift and still

[Chorus 2]
D                 A
The seasons go so fast
A             D    
Thinking that this 
              A
one was gonna last
A         D        
Maybe the question 
    D/C#        Bm      E
was too much to ask

This is the chords of Love In Mine by Big Thief on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
Eb              Gm          Cm
Put your love in mine
Bb                          Ab
Bid your body same
Bb
When your words won\’t
Eb     Gm     Cm   Bb
Tell me everything

[Verse 2]
Eb          Gm          Cm
When I ramble on
Bb            Ab
And I often do
Bb
Remind me
Eb   Bb    Cm     Bb
To travel on to you

[Chorus]
Eb          Ab          Bb
Whatever comes
Eb     Ab    Bb
When it comes
Eb     Ab       Bb
Whatever leaves

[Verse 3]
Eb          Bb          Cm
What we leave behind
Bb                  Ab
Like cicada shells
Bb
Will be hollowed
Eb      Gm          Cm     Bb
And eaten by the hands

[Chorus]
Eb                  Ab                  Bb
Whatever comes (whatever comes)
Eb          Ab                  Bb
When it comes (when it comes)
Eb                  Ab                  Bb
Whatever leaves (whatever leaves)

These are the chords for Simulation Swarm by Big Thief on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Intro]
Amaj7  Dmaj7  Emaj7   Dmaj7 (x4)

[Verse]
Amaj7          Dmaj7     
    I tried to tell you, 
  Emaj7              Dmaj7
I didn’t know how to stay 
    Amaj7           Dmaj7        
You believe she can see through, 
Emaj7                 Dmaj7
cutting at the silent clay
     Amaj7        Dmaj7      
A re-lief, beckon deep blue, 
Emaj7                  Dmaj7
fettered in the magnet sun
        Amaj7     Dmaj7      
Eat the gun as it feeds you, 
Emaj7                Dmaj7
spitting up the oxy-gen 
       Amaj7  Dmaj7  Emaj7   Dmaj7
Once a-gain                     
       Amaj7  Dmaj7  Emaj7   Dmaj7
Once a-gain 
       Amaj7       Dmaj7   
Once a-gain, empty horses, 
Emaj7                     Dmaj7
gallop through the violet door
       Amaj7        Dmaj7    
Follow red, crooked courses, 
Emaj7                  Dmaj7
shadows on the moonlit floor
      Amaj7         Dmaj7      
Oh my stars, winged creatures, 
Emaj7               Dmaj7
gathering in silken height 
         Amaj7      Dmaj7     
Like the last human teachers
Emaj7   Dmaj7
       Amaj7         Dmaj7      
Once a-gain, we must bleed new, 
Emaj7             Dmaj7
even as the hours shake 
        Amaj7        Dmaj7       
Crystal blood like a dream true, 
  Emaj7               Dmaj7
a ripple in the wound and wake
       Amaj7       Dmaj7      
You be-lieve, I be-lieve too, 
     Emaj7                Dmaj7
that you are the river of light
      Amaj7       Dmaj7     
Who I love that I cling to, 
       Emaj7              Dmaj7
in the belly of the empty night

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[Chorus]
         A            F#m    
From the thirty first floor, 
       Emaj7      Dmaj7
of the simulation swarm
         A              F#m      
With the drone of fluor-escence, 
         Emaj7           Dmaj7
flicker, fever, fill the form
       F#m            Emaj7         
With a warm gush how I wanna touch, 
        A              Dmaj7
like we never could be-fore
    A             F#m     
I’d fly to you to-morrow, 
        Emaj7            Dmaj7
I’m not fighting in this war
        A                F#m       
I wanna drop my arms and take your 
         Emaj7           Dmaj7
arms and walk you to the shore

[Verse]
Amaj7    Dmaj7   
    I re-member, 
Emaj7              Dmaj7
building an energy shield
        Amaj7        Dmaj7   
In your room, like a temple, 
Emaj7                    Dmaj7
swallows in the windless field
     Amaj7           Dmaj7   
Very thin, with your mother, 
Emaj7                Dmaj7
tall as a pale green tree
     Amaj7           Dmaj7   
Very wild, bright as winter, 
Emaj7               Dmaj7
rising with a prism key 
      Amaj7       Dmaj7   
And a child to de-liver,  
Emaj7                    Dmaj7
taken with the blood and vine
         Amaj7        Dmaj7   
It\'s the first little angel
Emaj7                Dmaj7

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[Solo]
A    F#m    D    Bm    (x4)

[Verse]
Amaj7      Dmaj7   
    Little Andy,   
    Emaj7                Dmaj7
    soft in your newborn skin
     Amaj7       Dmaj7   
Only one, little Andy,   
Emaj7             Dmaj7
will you return a-gain
     Amaj7           Dmaj7
I be-lieve we can re-new, 
    Emaj7           Dmaj7
and you could be my brother
       Amaj7        Dmaj7       
Once a-gain, fall a-sleep with, 
    Emaj7              Dmaj7
our backs against each other
       Amaj7       Dmaj7      
You be-lieve, I be-lieve too, 
     Emaj7                Dmaj7
that you are the river of light
      Amaj7       Dmaj7    
Who I love that I sing to, 
       Emaj7              Dmaj7
in the belly of the empty night

[Chorus]
         A            F#m    
From the thirty first floor, 
       Emaj7      Dmaj7
of the simulation swarm
         A              F#m      
With the drone of fluor-escence, 
         Emaj7           Dmaj7
flicker, fever, fill the form
       F#m            Emaj7         
With a warm gush how I wanna touch, 
        A              Dmaj7
like we never could be-fore
    A             F#m     
I’d fly to you to-morrow, 
        Emaj7       Dmaj7
I’m not fighting in this war
        A                F#m       
I wanna drop my arms and take your 
         Emaj7           Dmaj7
arms and walk you to the shore
    A             F#m     
I’d fly to you to-morrow, 
        Emaj7       Dmaj7
I’m not fighting in this war
        A                F#m  
I wanna drop my arms and take 
          Emaj7    Dmaj7
your arms 

[Outro]
A    F#m  D  Bm  (x6)

These are Born For Loving You chords by Big Thief on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
G

[Verse 1]
          G                 
After the first stars formed,
            Em
 after the dinos fell
          C          
After the first light
                  Dadd4add9
 flickered out of this motel
G          Em
1991 momma pushing like hell
C                    Dadd4add9
Tangled in blood and vine
        G             
From my first steps to
    Em
 my first words
   C             
To walking around 
 Dadd4add9
looking at birds
       G               
To the teenage nightmare,
   Em
 mine and yours
C                    Dadd4add9
Thank God we made it through

[Chorus]
             G       
\'Cause I was born for 
        C
loving you
          G       
It\'s just something 
                C
I was made to do
        Am        
Doesn\'t matter what 
              C
dreams come true
      G        C
I was born for loving you

[Verse 2]
G               Em
Now we\'re here, but 
where is here?
     C        
When sometimes 
         Dadd4add9
we both disappear
G                Em
Into that shadow box of fear
C               Dadd4add9
That tiny-holed abyss
         G         
From the first kiss
        Em
 to the first fck
C                 
I don\'t think it\'s
 Dadd4add9
 just good luck
G                  
Take me to the back
         Em
 of your pick-up truck
C                  Dadd4add9
Show me a thing or two

[Chorus]
             G   
\'Cause I was born
            C
 for loving you
          G        
It\'s just something
               C
 I was made to do
        Am        
Doesn\'t matter what 
              C
dreams come true
      G        C
I was born for loving you

[Interlude]
G C G C Am C G C

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[Verse 3]
         G         
When the hard times 
              Em
come and the hard 
times stay
          C           
When they stick around
     Dadd4add9
 and won\'t go away
        G             
When it seems there\'s
                     Em
 nothing you can do or say
C               Dadd4add9
Nowhere you can turn
         G          
From the last breath 
       Em
of my first death
        C          
To this lifetime and
  Dadd4add9
 lifetimes left
G               
Congratulations,
 Em            C
 no regrets
     Dadd4add9
It\'s true

[Chorus]
      G               C
I was born for loving you
          G       
It\'s just something
                C
 I was made to do
        Am         
Doesn\'t matter what
             C
 dreams come true
      G               C
I was born for loving you
      G               C
I was born for loving you
          G        
It\'s just something
               C
 I was made to do
        Am         
Doesn\'t matter what
             C
 dreams come true
      G               C
I was born for loving you
      G               C
I was born for loving you
      G               C
I was born for loving you
      G               C
I was born for loving you
      G               C
I was born for loving you

[Outro]
G Em C Dadd4add9 G Em C
Dadd4add9 
G Em C Dadd4add9 G

These are the chords for The Only Place by Big Thief on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Verse 1]
A7
What if all the worlds in space
      A7sus4
Would melt into one single place
    Em/G           Em/F#
And intertwine the human race
     Em
With other kinds?
    A7
The atom is an empty vase
  A7sus4
A vehicle to know embrace
    Em/G          
The way you feel, 
   Em/F#
the way you taste
Em
It multiplies

[Pre-Chorus]
E7
So much to share
E7
So much to share

[Chorus]
     C#    D      Bm
When all material scatters
    C#    D    Bm
And ashes amplify
    C#   Dsus4      Bm
The only place that matters
   A7
Is by your side

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[Verse 2]
A7
What if all the time between
    A7sus4
The words we say and what we mean
      Em/G           Em/F#
Would roll as softly as a stream
     Em
That we could ride?
     A7
We\'d ride the bend 
from source to mouth
  A7sus4
I want a friend from north to south
   Em/G                Em/F#
To build that question as a house
      Em
Where we\'d reside

[Pre-Chorus]
E7
So much to share
E7
So much to share

[Chorus]
     C#    D      Bm
When all material scatters
    C#    D    Bm
And ashes amplify
    C#   Dsus4      Bm
The only place that matters
   A7
Is by your side

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[Chorus]
     C#    D      Bm
When all material scatters
    C#    D    Bm
And ashes amplify
    C#   Dsus4      Bm
The only place that matters
   A7
Is by your side