C C6 C C6
C C6
Today, and tomorrow, and yesterday, too
Am G/b C
The flowers are dyin' like all things do
D#dim Em F6
Follow me close, I'm going to Bally-na-Lee
C G7
I'll lose my mind if you don't come with me
F F#dim
I fuss with my hair, and I fight blood feuds
C/g G11 C
I contain multitudes
Got a tell-tale heart like Mr. Poe
Got skeletons in the walls of people you know
I'll drink to the truth and the things we said
I'll drink to the man that shares your bed
I paint landscapes, and I paint nudes
I contain multitudes
A red Cadillac and a black mustache
Rings on my fingers that sparkle and flash
Tell me, what's next? What shall we do?
Half my soul, baby, belongs to you
I rollick and I frolic with all the young dudes
C/g G11 C Eaug
I contain multitudes
Am /g#
I'm just like Anne Frank, like Indiana Jones
C/g D9/f# Eaug
And them British bad boys, The Rolling Stones
Am /g#
I go right to the edge, I go right to the end
C/g D7/f#
I go right where all things lost are made good again.
I sing the songs of experience like William Blake.
I have no apologies to make.
Everything's flowing all at the same time.
I live on a boulevard of crime.
I drive fast cars, and I eat fast foods.
I contain multitudes.
Pink pedal-pushers, red blue jeans
All the pretty maids, and all the old queens
All the old queens from all my past lives
I carry four pistols and two large knives
I'm a man of contradictions, I'm a man of many moods
I contain multitudes
You greedy old wolf, I'll show you my heart
But not all of it, only the hateful part
I'll sell you down the river, I'll put a price on your head
What more can I tell you? I sleep with life and death in the same bed
Get lost, madame, get up off my knee,
Keep your mouth away from me.
I'll keep the path open, the path in my mind.
I'll see to it that there's no love left behind.
I'll play Beethoven's sonatas, and Chopin's preludes,
I contain multitudes
Below is a tab of what Blake Mills himself plays on the track (or at least in the video that he released on Instagram).
C C6 C C6 : . . . : . . . : . . . : . . . |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| |---------------1-|-----------------|---------------1-|-----------------| |-0-----------0---|-2---------------|-0 ----------0-- |-2---------------| |-2---------2-----|-------------2---|-2-----------2---|-----------------| |-3---------------|-----------------|-3---------3-----|-----------------| |-3---------------|-----------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------| C G7 C D#dim Em Dm/f : . . . : . . . : . . . : . . . |-----------------|-----------------|---------------5-|-3-----3-1-----1-| |-1-------3-------|-5---------------|-7-----------7---|-----5-------3---| |-2-------4-------|-5---------5-7-5-|-5---------------|-4---4---2---2---| |-3-------3-------|-5---------------|-7---------7-----|---5-------3-----| |-0---------------|-3---------------|-6---------------|-----------------| |---------3-------|-----------------|-----------------|-0-------1-------| C/g G7 F F#dim : . . . : . . . : . . . : . . . |-0-----------1-0-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| |-1---------------|-3---------------|---0h1---1-------|-------1-0-------| |-0---------------|-----------------|-2-------2-------|-2---2---------2-| |-------------0-2-|-3---------------|-----------------|-4---------------| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| |-3---------------|-3---------------|-1---------------|-2---------------| : . . : . . . |---------0-3-|-----------------| |-------1-----|-3-------1-------| |-0-----------|-2---5-2-0-------| |-2-----2-----|-3-------2-------| |-3-----------|---------3-------| |-3-----------|-3-------3-------|