Two Way Action Chords
by Andrew Bird
Two Way Action by Andrew Bird is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, Am, C, A and G(x2). Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
INTRO
e|---2-----------------|
B|-3---------2------0--|
G|---------2------0----|
D|---------------------|
A|---------------------|
E|---------------------|
D,G (3x)
D
D G
I've been driving all night
D G
Bathing in florescent light
D G Am
Of a western Tennessee gas station
D G
With a pack of two-way action
D G
I'm subsisting on a fraction
D G Am
And I close my eyes and pretend
C G
I'm on vacation
D
But the light bleeds through
A
And it's all green-blue
There goes my imagination
D,G (3x)
D G
My return fills me with dread
D G
Will my house plants be all dead
D G Am
My significant be with another
D G
I say OK where was I
D G
But I can't repress a sigh
D G
And I think I'm gonna
Am C G
Yeah I think I'm gonna call my mother
D
Let the subject wander
A
To issues of blonde hair
Or something or other
D,G (2x)
D
C
Like a bad haircut
D
Or a glass of cold water
C
Some of the things
D
You wouldn't ordinarily thought a
C D
Will all be lost if you let it in
C D
Maybe I'll never ever feel it again
D,G,D,G,D,D,Am (x2)
D,A
Instrumental (Guitar solo):
Alternate between D and G.
D G
I've been driving all night
D G
Bathing in florescent light
D G Am
Of a western Tennessee gas station
D G
With a pack of two-way action
D G
I'm subsisting on a fraction
D G
Of what used to be a sugar-free
Am C G
Half-melted bag of Tastations
D
That hard candy sensation
A
It's sweeping the nation
D G
And it puts my mind in traction
D G
I'm subsisting on a fraction
D G Am
And I close my eyes and pretend
C G
I'm on vacation
D
But while it melts in my mouth
A
I'm still driving south
In a TV Nation
D,G(x2)
D
C
Like a bad haircut
D
Or a glass of cold water
C D
Shouldn't I say what I really shouldn't oughta
C
You spend half a day in
D
Some of these places
C
Like a flash of white light
D
That's in front of our faces
C D
A state of peristalsis or a parastatic stasis
C
And we're off to the races
D C
Oh yeah and we're off to the races
D C
Oh yeah and we're off to the races
D C
Yeah and we're off to the races