The National – Tropic Morning News Chords on Piano & Ukulele

[Intro]
C#m B A B

[Verse 1]
C#m
I wasn't starting yet
         B
I didn't even think
 you were listening
A
I wasn't ready at all
       B
To say anything about
 anything interesting
C#m
It's a thing you have
               B
You just don't know
that you do it
          A
You wait around
 in a conversation
            B
While I get in and
start stumbling through it

[Chorus]
E
I was so distracted then
         F#m
I didn't have it
straight in my head
                 D
I didn't have my face on
 yet or the role or the feel
E
Of where I was
 going with it all
E
I was suffering
more than I let
F#m
On. The tropic morning
 news was on
D
There's nothing
 stopping me now
E
From saying all the
painful parts out loud

[Verse 2]
C#m
Got to my feet
                 B
Feeling that I'd let you down
          A
Wanted to say it
slow and perfect
           B
But it all somehow
got switched around
C#m
Something went off on its own
   B
My dumb, automatic
chit-chat
A
It's not what
 I meant to say at all
B
There's no way you
 can attach me to that

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[Chorus]
E
Got up to seize the day
                   F#m
With my head in my hands
feeling strange
            D
When all my thinking
 got mangled
               E
And I caught myself talking
 myself off the ceiling
E
I was suffering
more than I let
F#m
on, the tropic
morning news was on
D
There's nothing
stopping me now
E
From saying all the
painful parts out loud

[Post-Chorus]
E                     F#m
Oh, where are all the moments
 we'd have?
                D
Oh, where's the brain
we shared?
          E
Something somehow
 has you rapidly improving
E
Oh, what happened to
     F#m
the wavelength we were on?
                D
Oh, where's the gravity gone?
Something somehow has
      E
you rapidly improving

[Bridge]
A E F#m D
A E F#m D

A             E
You found the ache
 in my argument
F#m          D
You couldn't wait to
 get out of it
A             E
You found the slush
in my sentiment
F#m         D
You made it sound
 so intelligent
A
You can stop and start
              E
 an athlete's heart
F#m      D
How do I feel about it?
A                    E
I would love to have nothing
 to do with it
D
I would like to move on
and be through with it

[Verse 3]
C#m E A B

C#m
I'll be over here
                B
lying near the ocean
Making ocean sounds
A
Let me know if you can come over
    B
And work the controls
 for a while

[Chorus]
E
I was so distracted then
         F#m
I didn't have it straight
 in my head
                 D
I didn't have my face
on yet or the role or the feel
E
Of where I was
going with it all
E
I was suffering
 more than I let
F#m
on, The tropic
morning news was on
D
There's nothing
stopping me now
E
From saying all the
 painful parts out loud

[Post-Chorus]
E
Oh, where are all the
 F#m
moments we'd have?
                D
Oh, where's the brain
 we shared?
          E
Something somehow has
you rapidly improving
E
Oh, what happened to
      F#m
the wavelength we were on?
                D
Oh, where's the gravity gone?
Something somehow has
       E
you rapidly improving