Biography:
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter born February 15, 1980 in Omaha, Nebraska. He began his recording career in 1993 at the age of 13 and has since produced an enormous amount of material. Conor was deeply influenced early on by singer-songwriters David Dondero and Simon Joyner. His first two albums "Water" and "Here's to Special Treatment" were both released in 1994. Rolling Stone referred to him as "rock's boy genius." His project Bright Eyes, with Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, produced several critically-acclaimed records.
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Note: If you would like to play harmonica with this song, use a key of C harmonica.
[Intro]
e|-3-------------5-0----------3--------------------------------------|
B|---------------5------------0---3-----3---5-3-1-1-1---1-----1-1---1|
G|-----0---0---------0-0--0---------0--------------------------------|
D|----------------------2-----------------------------0--------------|
A|-3-3---3---3-3---0--------0----------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------3-----3---3-5-3-1---------0h1-----1--|
C Am G F
[Verse]
C Em
Just because you got it
You don't have to flaunt it
F C G
With an endless stream of famous men
C Em
Pretty as a portrait
Looked like Mamah Borthwick
F C G F
On that Shining Brow of Taliesin
[Chorus]
F C
Someone might try and burn it down
Em F G
So you'll have to put the fire out
C G C F Am Em F G C
Fortunes spent but that's irrelevant to build something that's sacred till the end
[Interlude]
(Repeat riff x1)
[Verse]
C Em
It cost twenty dollars to visit Fallingwater
F C G
It's the perfect house where no one lives
C Em F C G F
Maybe someone once did but they got evicted by a busload full of greedy tourists
[Chorus]
F C
And it would take a time machine
Em F G
To fulfill all of my fantasies
C G C F
'Cause a hidden dream can be embarrassing
Am Em F G C
And the only thing that's sacred till the end
[Interlude]
(Repeat riff x1)
[Verse]
C
Every time I tempt fate
Em
There's a major earthquake
F C G
Heard the people scream as the ceiling fell
C
Every building damaged
Em
Only one left standing
F C G F
It was Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel
[Chorus]
F C
A rumination in my mind
Em F G
Winding like the ramp at the Guggenheim
C G C
I'm not content
F Am Em F G C
But I'm feeling hesitant to build something that's sacred till the end
[Outro]
(Repeat riff x2)
[Intro]
e|-3-------------5-0----------3--------------------------------------|
B|---------------5------------0---3-----3---5-3-1-1-1---1-----1-1---1|
G|-----0---0---------0-0--0---------0--------------------------------|
D|----------------------2-----------------------------0--------------|
A|-3-3---3---3-3---0--------0----------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------3-----3---3-5-3-1---------0h1-----1--|
C Am G F
[Verse]
C Em
Just because you got it
You don't have to flaunt it
F C G
With an endless stream of famous men
C Em
Pretty as a portrait
Looked like Mamah Borthwick
F C G F
On that Shining Brow of Taliesin
[Chorus]
F C
Someone might try and burn it down
Em F G
So you'll have to put the fire out
C G C F Am Em F G C
Fortunes spent but that's irrelevant to build something that's sacred till the end
[Interlude]
(Repeat riff x1)
[Verse]
C Em
It cost twenty dollars to visit Fallingwater
F C G
It's the perfect house where no one lives
C Em F C G F
Maybe someone once did but they got evicted by a busload full of greedy tourists
[Chorus]
F C
And it would take a time machine
Em F G
To fulfill all of my fantasies
C G C F
'Cause a hidden dream can be embarrassing
Am Em F G C
And the only thing that's sacred till the end
[Interlude]
(Repeat riff x1)
[Verse]
C
Every time I tempt fate
Em
There's a major earthquake
F C G
Heard the people scream as the ceiling fell
C
Every building damaged
Em
Only one left standing
F C G F
It was Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel
[Chorus]
F C
A rumination in my mind
Em F G
Winding like the ramp at the Guggenheim
C G C
I'm not content
F Am Em F G C
But I'm feeling hesitant to build something that's sacred till the end
[Outro]
(Repeat riff x2)
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