The National — Mistaken For Strangers (ver 2) Chords

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At times you can hear the three notes of the intro chords plucked in
the pattern of low—middle—high—middle.  On live versions, someone in the
band plucks that pattern for the first four lines, then plucks it an octave
higher for the two lines that go "showered and blue—blazered..."
(Note: I recommend finding a good live version.  I think the live is better
than the album version, which obscures the guitar.)

I've written two ways to play the chords.  The first is the easiest,
but I saw them live and it looked they played it the second way.
They sound the same.  I suppose the second is nice if you want 
to give your guitar a hard strum without worrying about muting 
the low string.
       easy      live
F/A:   X032XX    587XXX
F/Bb:  X132XX    687XXX     
F/C:   X332XX    887XXX     
Csus4: X330XX    885XXX     

Intro: F/A  F/Bb  F/C  Csus4

            F/A                   F/Bb
You have to do it running but you do everything that they
F/C                  Csus4
ask you to cause you don't mind seeing
    F/A                  F/Bb
yourself in a picture as long as you look
    F/C                 Csus4
faraway, as long as you look removed
F/A               F/Bb      F/C                Csus4
showered and blue—blazered, fill yourself with quarters
F/A               F/Bb      F/C                Csus4
showered and blue—blazered, fill yourself with quarters

        Dm                             F
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
         Bb                           F
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery
  Bb                    F              Am                    Am7
citibank lights, arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under

       Dm                     F
Oh you wouldn't want an angel watching over.
   Bb                    F
Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wannna watch
 Bb                 F                     Am            Am7
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults

        F/A                          F/Bb
Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
            F/C                       Csus4
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
       F/A                  F/Bb
so you swear you just saw a feathery
      F/C                 Csus4
woman carry a blindfolded man through the trees
F/A               F/Bb      F/C                Csus4
showered and blue—blazered, fill yourself with quarters
F/A               F/Bb      F/C                Csus4
showered and blue—blazered, fill yourself with quarters

(repeat chorus)