Big Thief - Time Escaping: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Time Escaping" on your guitar with our detailed chord guide and lyrics. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

Learn Time Escaping Guitar Chords and Lyrics by Big Thief

This section will guide you through each part of the song, providing the guitar chords placed directly above the lyrics for easy playing. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced player, these elements will help you perform "Time Escaping" smoothly on your guitar.

For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.

A#                       G#
Electric waves a rush of energy
                               A#
Silent river pouring backward eternally
                               G#
Through the phase and touch of entropy
Old age in the beginner
A#                                G#
To hit the stage and blush wild, laughingly
                             A#
Crush the rage and rush time tappingly
                         G#
Call the name so much so vapidly
Dissolving into thin air
A#                            G#
Turning the two-fork taped up television
                  A#
Into tunnel vision
                            G#
Taking the new fork tactile as revision
Working the revision

Chorus:
G#     A#
Time escaping
G#     A#
Time escaping

There is no reason to go down alone
Through distortion's secret telephone
Separate contact separate
Poison in the ether
Swinging still incessant pendulum
Lavender, nettle, calendula
Separate, contact, concentrate
Drawing out the fever

Chorus

Ether
Time
It's music
It's music, Oso

Only the winter wind survives
After the heat rush feeds and thrives
After the bushfire burns and dies
Frozen and bitter
Desert ground so cold and clean
Spreading out like a magazine
Reading the dirt like gossip
What do the weeds say? They say
"Everything, everything, everything falls through
Each dimension breaks in two
Like the two hands clapping
Like the two wings flapping
Everything, everything, everything for free
As it all eventually
Turns to dust and petal
Molten rock and meadow"

Chorus


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

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Guitar chord A#

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Guitar chord G#

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Time Escaping" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Time Escaping" by Big Thief.