we need a myth

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We need a

G
myth

We need an amethyst

Bm
bridge

We need a high hanging

Em
cliff

Jump, fall and lift

We can

C
make it

But we need a myth

We need a path through the mist

Like in our beds, we were just kids

Like what was said by our parents

A

G♯
myth

’Cause what we’re after is

C♯
just this

A myth

’Cause what we’re after is just this

We need a

A
myth

I feel my heart’s like a

C♯m
fist

Words spilling out of the blessed

F♯m
lips

Of any prophet or

D
goddess

I need a myth

Brought back to life by a kiss

Scrape away grey cement

Show me the world as it was again

As it was in a myth

A red ribbon to reconnect

The lady’s head to her neck

And to forget that her throat was ever slit

’Cause what we’re after is

B♭
just this

It’s a

E♭
myth

’Cause what we’re after is just this

And I’m

G♯m
sick of all these

F♯
picture books that

E
try

To steal some old reflections for their light

But desperate measures point to desperate times

And that’s

F♯
why

We need a myth

B E♭m G♯m E

(Instrumental)

We’re cut

B
adrift

We need a mass

E♭m
uplift

The world is trembling and

G♯m
weeping

Just at the point of

E
believing

In a myth

The sun that shines on my head

The moon that lights me to bed

Were two identical twins

Inside of a myth

I heard the voice of a friend

On Lethe’s banks, wading in

And he said, “Before I forget…”

We need a

C♯
myth

As we lean in to

Fm
kiss

To get two nails through the

B♭m
wrist

To get covered in

F♯
blood

And to get covered in spit

And to

C♯
forgive

And if all we’re taught is a trick

Why would this feeling persist?

And with the truth closing in

I must insist

We need a myth

As the song progresses, they use barre chords further up the neck; for example, even though the last set of chords has an F-minor in it, you'll want to do it at the 7th fret instead of the 1st if you want to be as accurate as possible.

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