Now Navigate Chords
by Kevin Devine
Now Navigate by Kevin Devine is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A, Bm, Em and F#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
My first attempt at writing out some chords! The song is easiest if thought of in 6 8 time. Just think of usually playing the chords on counts 1,2,3,4, and for the muted strumming to be on counts 5 and 6. Note, the chords don't line up over the proper words, something is screwing up with the font, so just figure out the harmonic rhythm. Intro: D D D D D D D D There are tiers, as in levels, to reality G G D D On the industrial corner of North 17th Street and Wythe A G D Bm Two black public high school kids watch a nordic model get photographed Bm A G A D D To them, she is lunar, impossible, alien life. D D D D So as a comet might relate to a traffic-stop taxi cab G G D D Or a Bahamas vacation to a stint in Guantanamo Bay A G D Bm So as access and privilege relate to their absolute opposites Bm A G A D D It's the way that these kids and this woman will always relate G D And it's nobody's fault. Yeah no one's to blame. A Em We all work through the dark. We all carry the weight. Bm D F#m Bm Slender shoulders and blindfolds spinning in cycles Bm A G A D D D D Now, now, now: navigate! D D D D There are tiers, as in layers, to an experience. G G D D Through each lens and metric the image warps every day. A G D Bm I'm either successful, independent, and largely uncompromised Bm A G A D D Or a non-starter, never-was, has-been since 2008. G D And it's nobody's fault. Yeah no one's to blame. Em A We all work through the dark. We all carry the weight. Bm D F#m Bm Slender shoulders and blindfolds spinning in cycles Bm A G A G Now, now, now: navigate! Instrumental: