MGMT - Metanoia: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Metanoia" on your guitar with our chord guide. 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.

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

     A        D         C#m
Metanoia, reshaping the world
Cm
It can teach you
D#             D
And reprogram you
C#m                   D
It can show you the flood
         E         A
That's trapped inside

This one's alive
The tail is breathing
And she's listening
Kill the serpent
Divide, disperse and grow

Into an oak
A silver lining on a black scale
Wicked hunter on three hooves he still rode
But where is the fourth?
You can climb there
To your lofty perch

C#m                   D    E       A
It can teach you the fairytale of hurt

C#                     G#
Mystic referee, don't look on me with scorn
C#                  G#
I'm a child, I'm a lover being born
D#
Satchidananda
C#
Disregard the path I'm on

You can justify the action, should you bless
My ambition and my indecisiveness
Satchidananda
Let me know that you exist

B                       F#
Watch me tremble as I'm answering the phone
B                  F#               F
I am separate from everything you know

Mystic referee I promise to return
Once I've given up and lessons have been learned
Satchidananda
You can watch my fire burn

We were talkin' junk right,
Just before the show
This wild-eyed kid came up to the fence
He took one look at us, and he said:

 A
"Help me,
C
Drummer,
A
Ticket,
C
Yeah!" - x4

A
We didn't play his favorite song,
                                    G
Now he'll never come to another show
Now he'll never come to another show
Now he'll never come to another show
Now he'll never come to another show
Now he'll never come to another show
Now he'll never come to another show

Hospitals and woods confirm
Red in the eyes of everyone
Parasites and lovers scrape the meat from bones
Turned into jade and tiger's eye
Save me some dark hair over a face like hers
She'll help the rain come to a pour
Bathroom floor of stone and tiles broke in two
Warm where they touch her porcelain
Timid skin I'm careful to untie this road
Wrapped in a knot indifferent
Lion's foot unearthing all the things i've seen
But never truly understood
Rotten wood from oceans that were never green
Crumbles beneath the canopy
Secretly

                 F#                   G#
Let's pretend we never touched the sugar

Tonight, under rose
You won't find another wheel to roll
When autumn winds appear
We wear these fears on our right
We just wants to be surreal, cause
All dressed in diamond image jeans
Mercury's found in old field
We miserable in love
And chance we walked right on in
Into the streets of the city, but

Watching people disappear
Without reaching out
Years and years
You're left by yourself
On the wheel


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

A

Guitar chord A

C

Guitar chord C

Cm

Guitar chord Cm

C#

Guitar chord C#

C#m

Guitar chord C#m

D

Guitar chord D

D#

Guitar chord D#

E

Guitar chord E

F

Guitar chord F

F#

Guitar chord F#

G

Guitar chord G

G#

Guitar chord G#

B

Guitar chord B

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 "Metanoia" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Metanoia" by MGMT.