Chords for The National - So Far Around The Bend (from Dark Was The Night)

That's cool.
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_ _ _ _ I'm [B] Aaron Dessner, I play in The National, this is my brother.
_ And we put together this record, Dark Was The Night.
I used to work for Red Hot for five years.
And it's a sister company, Funny Garbage, which is [E] a design company.
And _ _ we had _ the opportunity to work with them on this record
because we've known them for a long time.
And we also happen [F] to have known a lot of musicians that we could _ convince.
_ Hey. _ _ _ _
Start it over. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] Hi, I'm John Carlin, I started the Red Hot organization 20 years ago.
I was an art critic in the East Village in New York.
And _ the 80s was a terrible time, it was great art,
but lots of people got sick before they knew what AIDS was.
And I saw a lot of the most creative people in my generation get sick and die.
And I was the lucky one, not only did I survive, but I got to do something interesting
and make people remember this terrible disease that affects people around the world
and at the same time make some great music. _
_ _ _ _ _ We had a song that we had written that we knew probably _ [F] wouldn't really work [E] on one of our albums.
We've always loved Nico Muhly's stuff, [F] and so we invited him [Gm] to arrange it. _
[C] _ The record [Am] Dark Was The Night is really almost more of a concept record than a conceptual [C] record.
It doesn't have a theme like covering the songs of one artist,
but it really has a coherent spirit that I think was really something that Aaron and Bryce brought to the table.
And [G] it was really finding out the identity of their generation,
like what [F] actually makes all these artists come [Am] together,
not just because there's an event [G] like Red Hot, but their creative collaboration.
It's almost like this [F] global community [Am] of creative people that are communicating with [G] each other,
even if they're not texting or emailing or [Am] talking on the phone,
they're [Em] talking to each other with their records.
[Am] And I always thought that the best music [Em] was really the music that artists [Am] made for other artists,
just like [Em] painters or writers.
You know, they want to reach [Am] an audience, but the real audience is [Bm] their peers,
the people whose work they admire.
So that's why [Em] doing collaborations on [C] these kind of records is [G] so exciting. _
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_ _ _ [C] _ I know you're a serious [Bm] lady
[Am] Living off a [A]
teacup full of cherries
[G] Nobody knows where you are [F] living
Nobody knows where you [C] are
_ _ Take a bath and get high through an [A] apple
_ [Am] Wanted to cry but you can't when you're loud
_ [G] Nobody knows where you are living
[F] Nobody knows where you are
[C] _ _ [Dm] You're so [G] _ far [C] around the bend _ _
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] You're so [G] far around [C] the bend _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ I've run through a thousand parties
[Am] I've run through a million bars
_ [G] Nobody knows where you are living
[F] Nobody [D]
knows [F] where you are
[C] _ You've been humming in a haze forever
[Am] Praying for payment to get back together
[G] _ Nobody knows where you are living
[C] Nobody knows [F] where you are
_ [A] You're so [G] far _ [C] around the bend _
_ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] You're so [G] _ far around [C] the bend _
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[G] Now there's no leaving [C] _ _ _
New York
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[G] Now there's no leaving [C] _ _
New [F] York _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Dm] You're [G] so far around [C] the bend _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] You're so [G] far around [C] the bend
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_ [Dm] _ _ Now [G] there's no _ [C] leaving _ New York _
_ [A] _ _ Now [G] there's no leaving [C] _ _ New York _
[Dm] Now _ _ [G] there's no leaving [C] _ _ New [Am] York _
_ [A] _ _ _ [G] Now there's no leaving [C] _ _ New [Am] York _
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