Jeff Tweedy - Having Been Is No Way To Be Chords

[Verse]
  Em        G
Oh, I was naive
  Em           G
My shoes were untied
   C/G     C/B  Em       G    C/G
In Heaven everything is just fine
       Em           G
But the phones are dead
     Em        G
And so is the light
    C/G     C/B
And so are you
      Em    G     C/G
And, honey, so am I
        Em          G
But the Earth still turns
        Em       G
For the unconcerned
C/G  C/B   Em         G     C/G
Days pass below like train windows
     Em          G
I was a sapling tree
   Em              G
The birds looked like me
C/G              C/B      Em       G        C/G
Oh, I begged my nerves to kick me something new

[Chorus 1]
             Am
From time to time
              G
I'd watch you sleep
      Em               Bm             C/G  G
Oh, I wonder how much freedom we can dream
C/G                              G
And I'm sorry when you wake up to me

[Verse 2]
  Em        G
I just got tired
Em       G      C/G    C/B     Em      G     C/G
Shining steady like a spider web's an empty stage
    Em      G
Now people say
      Em            G
What drugs did you take
    C/G   C/G            Em    G    C/G
And why don't you start taking them again?
            Em     G
But they're not my friends
     Em      G
And if I was dead
      C/G        C/B      Em  G       C/G
What difference would it ever make to them
          Am
If I got high?

             G
From time to time
       Em             Bm                C/G  G
Oh, I wonder how much freedom you would need
            C/G                      G
And I'd be sorry when you wake up to me

A  C/G
A  C/G  G

[Verse 3]
     Em             G
I'm reaching out to you
     Em             G
I'm writing all the time
  C/G    C/B         Em    G       C/G
I don't see deep but I see far and wide
  Em       G
I see dead trees
     Em            G
But the roots have leaves
C/G   C/B      Em     G           C/G    C/B              Em
Just because I can't describe it doesn't mean I shouldn't try
               G
To untwist the knife
Em           G
To unmake my mind
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Having been is no way to be alive

[Chorus 3]
         Am
And I'm alive
                 G
When I watch you sleep
   Em              Bm         C/G   G
I wonder how much freedom we need
        C/G                     G
And I'm here when you wake up to me
               C/G                    G
And I'm still here when you wake up to me