This was originally authored by an Ultimate Guitar user named barrymiles. I took the liberty of adding chords
to every line other than the solos.

* I don't know if the "B7add4" (X-2-1-2-0-0) is the one that was originally intended, but it sounds alright.

* Personally, for the solo sections, I just fill in with a progression from Em-- C -- G -- Bm7
  And for the last line of every verse in "Cortez," I like to add another G and Bm7
  But I've also only been playing less than a year and know nearly nothing about music theory or guitar, so
  I've tried to leave the original text alone.


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METHOD ACTING/CORTEZ THE KILLER - Dave Rawlings Machine
Capo on 1st

            
There's no beg

inning to the 

story
            
A bookshelf si


nks into the s

and
            
And a language

 learned, forg

ot in turn
             
Studied once a

       
gain


            
It's a shockin

g bit of foota

ge
            
Viewed on a sh


itty TV screen
            
You can squint

 at snow and s

tatic
             
To make out wh

       
at it means


            
And keep stret

ching that ant

enna
            
Hoping that it


 will come cle

ar
            
I need some re

ception, a hig

her message
             
Please tell me

       
 what to feel


[Chorus]
             
'Cause I don't

            
 know what tom

      
orrow brings
             
It's alive wit

            
h such possibi

      
lities
             
But I know tha

            
t I feel bette

      
r when I sing
             
Burdens are li

 
fted from me
              
That's my voic

 
e rising


            
So T-Bone, ple

ase keep the t

ape rolling
            
Gil keep strum


ming that guit

ar
            
We need a reco

rd of our fail

ures
             
We must docume

       
nt our love


            
I sat too long

 in my silence
            
Grown too old 


on my pain
            
To shed this s

kin, be born a

gain
             
It starts with

       
 an ending


[Chorus]
             
And I don't kn

            
ow what tomorr

      
ow brings
             
It's full of s

            
uch possibilit

      
ies
             
But I know tha

            
t I feel bette

      
r when I sing
             
Burdens are li

 
fted from me
              
That's my voic

 
e rising


[Solo]


[Bridge]
             
It's not a mov

   
ie, no private

 screening
           
This method ac

   
ting—I call it

 living
             
It's like a fo

   
untain, the do

or is open
           
We have a prob

   
lem with no so

lution
             
But to love an

     
d to be loved


[Solo]


[Chorus]
             
So thank you f

            
riends for the

      
 time we share

d
             
Your love stay

            
s with me like

      
 sunlight and 

air
             
And though I t

            
ruly wish I co

      
uld keep hangi

ng around here
             
My joy is cove

 
ring me
              
Soon I will di

 
sappear


[Solo]



          
He came dancin

g across the w

ater
          
With his galle

ons and guns
          
Looking for th

e new world

In the palace in the sun


          
On the shore l

ay Montezuma
          
With his coca 

leaves and pea

rls
          
In his halls, 

he often wonde

red

The secrets of the world


          
And his subjec

ts gathered ro

und him
          
Like the leave

s around a tre

e
          
In their cloth

es of many col

ors

For the angry gods to see


          
And the women 

all were beaut

iful
          
And the men st

ood straight a

nd strong
          
They offered l

ife in sacrifi

ce

So that others could go on


[Solo]
(over Cortez verse progression)


          
Hate was just 

a legend
          
And war was ne

ver known
          
The people wor

ked together

And they lifted many stones


          
Then they carr

ied them to th

e flatlands
          
But they died 

along the way
          
And they built

 up with their

 bare hands

What we still can't do today


          
And I know she

's living ther

e
          
And she loves 

me to this day
          
I just can't r

emember when

Or how I lost my way


[Solo]
(back to Method Acting verse progression)