Fevers And Mirrors
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Artist: Bright Eyes
Album : Fevers & Mirrors
Songs:
1. A Spindle
2. A Darkness
3. Fever
4. A Necklace
[Chords]
Am7- X02010
Am7/F#- 202010
G- 320033
C- X30210
F#- 224432
B7- X21201
E- 022100
D7- XX0212
D7sus4- XX0213
[Verse]
You Am7turn on a Am7/F#spindle
You are so much Glooser now
But you're Cnot explaining how
You F#gained such B7new reEpose
I touch the Am7clasp of your Am7/F#locket
With its Gpicture held
Some Csecret you wouldn't tell
But F#let it B7choke your Eneck
So we imAm7agine a Am7/F#darkness
Where all Gshapes divide
Solids Cchanging into light
With a F#burst of B7heat so Ebright
EWell fine
Am7Don't you Am7/F#do what I Gwant you Cto
Yeah, Am7don't deAm7/F#grade yourself the Gway that I Cdo
'Cause Am7you don't Am7/F#depend upon all the Gshit that I Cuse
To Ammake Cmy D7moods D7sus4immmmmmGprove
And near Am7a sea oAm7/F#f pianos
There were Gwaves of chords
That Ccrashed against the shore
In one F#huge and B7pointless Eroar
And there were Am7girls bringing Am7/F#water
Like a Gdream they came
To cool the Cfever of my brain
And F#soothe my B7burning Ethroat
And they Am7made me a Am7/F#necklace
Hanging Gbeads of sweat
On a Cstring of my regrets
And F#placed it B7'round my Eneck
EAnd they were singing
Am7Don't you Am7/F#do what you've Gwanted Cto
Yeah, Am7don't desAm7/F#troy yourself like those Gcowards Cdo
And Am7maybe the sun keeps Am7/F#coming up 'cause it's gotten Gused to Cyou
And your AmconCstant D7need D7sus4forrrr Gproof
2. Song: A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks
[Verse]
Here is a Cscale, weigh it out and you will find easily
More than Emsufficient doubt that these colors you see
Were Ampicked in advance by some careful hand
With an Fabsolute concept of Gbeauty
They are Csmeared and these blurs come in random order
To Emcolor the eyes of your former lovers
Hers were Amgreen like July except when she criedF
They were FreGd
Now I Cknow a disease that these doctors can't treat
You Emcontract it the day you accept all you see
Is a Ammirror and a mirror is all it can be
A reFflection of something we're Gmissing
And Clanguage just happened, it was never planned
And it's Eminadequate to describe where I am
In the Amroom of my house where the light has never been
FWaiting for this day to Gend
And these Fclocks keep unwinding and Gcompletely ignore
EmEverything that we Amhate or adore
Once the Fpage of a calendar is Gturned it's no more
So Emtell me then, what was it Amfor?
Oh Ftell me, Gwhat was it Cfor?
3. Song: The Calendar Hung Itself
[Verse]
Does he kiss your F#meyelids in the morning
when you start to raise your head?
And does he C#sing to you incessantly
from the place between your bed and wall?
Does he F#mwalk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
Looking C#down every few steps
to pretend he walks with you?
Does he F#mknow that place below your neck
that is your favorite to be touched?
And does he C#cry through broken sentences
like "I love you far too much"?
BmDoes he lay Eawake listeAning to your Dbreath?
BmWorried that Eyou smoke too Amany cigaDrettes?
Is he Ecoughing now on a F#mbathroom floor?
For every Especk of tile there are a F#mthousand more
That you won't Eever see
But must Ahold Einside Dyourself eEternallF#myC# F# C#
I drug your F#mghost across the country
and we plotted out my death
In every C#city, memories would whisper
"Here is where you rest"
I was deF#mtermined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
And I C#settled for a telephone
Sang into your machine
"F#mYou are my sunshine,
My only C#sunshine.
F#mYou are my sunshine
My only C#sunshine"
Bm E A D
Bm E A D
E F#
E F#
E A E D E
I F#mkissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
She had eyes C#bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
And in a F#mstory told she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
And there were C#rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
And it F#mrose like thunder
Clapped under our C#hands
And it F#mstretched for centuries
To a diary entry's C#end where I wrote
"F#mYou make me happy (WHAT?)
When the skies are C#gray
F#mYou make me happy (WHAT?)
When skies are C#gray and gray and gray"
Well the cBmlock's heart it Ehangs inside Aits open Dchest
With hands Bmstretched towards the Ecalendar Ahanging itDself
But I Ewill not weep for those F#mdying days
For all the Eones who've left there are a F#mfew that stayed
And they Efound me here and Apulled me Efrom the Dgrass
E F#m E F#m E...
Where I was laid
4. Song: Something Vague
[Intro and main progression]
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B|----1--1h3p1---1----1h3p1----0----0h3p0----1|
G|----2----------0-------------0-------------2|
D|-3-------------2-------------0-------------2|
A|------------3----------------2----------0---|
E|--------------------------3-----------------|
E|----1----------0-------------3---------3----|
B|----1--1h3p1---1----1h3p1----0---------0----|
G|----2----------0-------------0---------0----|
D|-3-------------2-------------0---------0----|
A|------------3----------------2---------2----|
E|--------------------------3--------3-3------|
[Verse]
FNow and Cagain it seems Gworse than it Amis
But Fmostly the Cview is Gaccurate.
You see your Fbreath in the Cair as you Gclimb up the Amstairs
to that Fcoffin you Ccall your Gapartment.
And you Amsink in your Echair
Brush the Csnow from your Ghair
And Cdrink the Gcold Faway
You are Amnot really Esure
What you're Cdoing this Ffor
But you need Csomething to Gfill up the Fdays
A Amfew more Ehours
C G Am
C G Am
There is a Fdream in my Cbrain that just Gwon't go Amaway
It's been Fstuck there since it Ccame a few Gnights ago
And I'm Fstanding on a Cbridge in the Gtown where I Amlived
As a Fkid with my Cmom and my Gbrothers
And then the Ambridge disaEppears
And I'm Cstanding on Gair
With Cnothing Gholding Fme
And I Amhang like a Estar
Fucking Cglow in the Gdark
For all those Cstarving Geyes to Fsee
Like the Amones we've Ewished on
But Cnow I'm conGfused
Is this Amdeath really Fyou?
CAnd do these Gdreams have any Ammeaning?
No, no, I think it is mCore like a gGhost
That's been Amfollowing us Fboth
CSomething Gvague that we're not Amseein
FSomething Cmore like a Dfeeling
F G C
5. Song: The Movement Of A Hand
[Intro]
F# A E F#
[Verse]
You F#follow the Afootsteps
Echoes Eleading down a Ahall
To a F#room, there's music Aplaying
Tiny Ebells with moving Aparts
Here the F#shadows make things Augly
An Eeffect quite undesiraAble
The F#bold and yellow Adaylight
Grows like Eivy across the Awall
And Dbounces Eoff of the Apainted porcelain
DTiny Edancing Adoll
Her Dbody Espins as she Apirouettes again
The Dworld suddenEly seems F#smallA E A
On an F#off-white subtle Amorning
You Estretch your legs in the front Aseat
The F#road has made a Avacuum
Where our Evoices used to Abe
And you F#lay your head onto my Ashoulder
Pour like Ewater over Ame
So if I Djust exEist for the Anext ten minutes of this
DDrive that Ewould be Afine
And Dall the Etrees that Aline this curb would be
ReDjoicing Eand alF#iveA E A
Soon Dall the Ejoy that Apours from everything makes
DFountains Eof your Aeyes
Because you Dfinally EunderAstand the movement of a
DHand waving Eyou goodF#byeA E A
[Outro]
F# A E A
6. Song: Arienette
[Verse]
C#mThe fragile keep secrets gathered in pockets
And they will G#sell them for nothing, a cheap watch or locket
That Ekind of gold washes offC#m
And the C#msad act like lepers, they stick to the shadows
They long to G#ring bells of warning to tell of their coming
So that the Epure can shut their doorsC#m
And the C#mangry are animals, senseless and savage
They G#act without order in logical lapses
They Estain their mouths with bloodC#m
So F#mtake my hand, this barren land is aC#mlive tonight
Oh, the F#mcorn has grown stalks that form a C#mwall to hide
The wind F#mcarries sounds that I can't see from beC#myond that line
Then the Bstalks Abegin to G#sway
Oh, C#stay with me, BArAieG#nette
Until the wolves are aC#mway
YUPA G# C#m A G#
Well the C#mwicked are vultures, they bake in the canyons
They G#circle in sunlight and wait for their victims
To coEllapse and call to theC#mm
And the C#mdesperate are water, they'll run down forever
As they G#soak into silence and end up together
In a Edark and distant, dark and distant C#mplace
So don't F#mleave me here with only mirrors C#mwatching me
This F#mhouse, it holds nothing but the C#mmemories
And the F#mmoon, it leaves silver but C#mnever sleep
And then the Bsilver Aturns to G#gray
So C#stay with me, BArAieG#nette
Until the wolves are C#maway
7. Song: When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
[Intro]
C G Dm G
C G Am Am G G
[Verse]
TomorCrow when I wake up I'm Gfinding my brother
And Dmmaking him take me back Gdown to the water
That Clake where we sailed and we Glaughed with our father
I Amwill not desert him, I Amwill not desert himG
No matter Dmhow I may Gwish for a Ccoffin so Amclean
Or these Dmtrees to unGdress all their Cleaves onto Amme
I put my Dmface in the Gdirt and then Cfinally I Amsee
The Csky that has been Gavoiding Cme
I Cstarted this letter, I'm gonna Gsend it to Ruba
It will be Dmblessed by her eyes on the Ggulf coast of Florida
With her Cfeet in the sand and one Ghand on her swimsuit
She will Amrecite the prayer of my Gpen
Saying, Ctime take us forward, Grelief from this longing
They can Dmland that plane on my Gheart. I don't care
Just Cgive me November, the Gwarmth of a whisper
In the Amfreezing darkness of my Groom
But no matter Dmwhat I would Gdo in an atCtempt to reAmplace
All these Dmpills that I Gtake trying to Cbalance my Ambrain
Seen the Dmcurious Ggirl with that Clook on her Amface
So Csurprised she stares out from Gher display Ccase
8. Song: Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
[Intro]
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
[Verse]
The F#mphone Dmaj7slips from a Aloose Bmgrip
F#mWords were Dmaj7missed, then some AapoloBmgy
I F#mdidn't want to Dmaj7tell you this
No, it's Ajust some guy she's Bmbeen hanging out F#mwith
I don't Dmaj7know, the past couple Aweeks, I gueBmss
F#mThank you and hang Dmaj7up the phone
Let the Afuneral start, hear the Bmcasket close
Let's pin F#msplit-black Dmaj7ribbon to your AovercoatBm
The F#mlaughter pours from Dmaj7under doors in this Ahouse
I don't underBmstand that sound no F#mmore
Seems Dmaj7artificial like a ATV seBmt
Well HaBmligh Haligh Haligh Haligh
This Aweight, it must be satisfied
You Goffer only one reply
You Aknow not what you do
But you Bmtear and tear your hair from roots
From Athat same head you have twice removed
Now a Glock of hair you said would prove
Our Alove would never die, well hahaha
Bm
F#mI remember Dmaj7everything
The Awords we spoke on Bmfreezing South Street
And F#mall those mornings Dmaj7watching you Aget ready for Bmschool
You F#mcombed your hair inDmaj7side that mirror
The one you Apainted blue and Bmglued with jewelry tears
F#mSomething about those Dmaj7bright colors would always Amake you feel betBmter
F#mBut now we speak with Dmaj7ruined tongues
And the Awords we say aren't Bmmeant for anyone
F#mIt's just a mumbled Dmaj7sentence to a Apassing acquainBmtance but there was once you
F#mYou said you hate my Dmaj7suffering
And you Aunderstood and Bmyou'd take care of me
F#mYou'd would always Dmaj7be there, well Awhere are you now?Bm
BmHaligh, Haligh, Haligh, Haligh
The Aplans were never finalized
But Gleft to hang like yarn and twine
DangAling before my eyes
As you Bmtear and tear your hair from roots
From Athat same head that you have twice removed
Now a Glock of hair you said would prove
Our Alove would never die
And I Bmsing and sing of awful things
The Apleasure that my sadness brings
And my Gfingers press onto the strings
Yet Aanother clumsy chord
BmHaligh, Haligh, an awful lie
This Aweight will now be satisfied
I'm gonna Ggive you only one reply
I Aknow not who I am
But I Bmtalk in the mirror
To the Astranger that appears
Our conversations are Gcircles
Always one Gsided
Nothing is Aclear
Except we Bmkeep coming back
To this Ameaning that I lack
He says the choices were Ggiven
Now you must Glive them
Or just not Alive
But do you want Bmthat?
9. Song: The Center Of The World
Tablature by Laura Sharp
[Verse]
GAt the center of the Bmworld there's a statue of a Amgirl
She is standing near a Cwell with a Dbucket bare and Gdry
I went and looked her in the Bmeyes and she turned me into Amsand
This clumsy form that I desCpise, it scattered Deasy in her Ghand
It came to rest upon a Bmbeach with a million others Amthere
We sat and waited for the Csea to stretch out so that Dwe could disapGpear
Into the endlessness of Bmblue into the horror of the Amtruth
See, we are far less than we Cknew, yeah, we are Dfar less than we Emknew
EmBut we knew what we could Ctaste
EmGirls found honey to drench our hands
The men cut marble to mark our Bgraves
BSaid we'll need something to reGmind us of
All the sweetness that has Bpassed through us
The priests dressed children for a Emchoir
But found no joy in what was Bsung
BThe Cfuneral Dhad DbeGgun
GIn the middle of the Bmday when you drive home to your Amplace
From that job that makes you Csleep back to the Dthoughts that keep you aGwake
Long after night has come to Bmclaim any light that still reAmmains
In the corner of the Cframe that you Dput around her Gface
Two Bmpills just weren't enough
The Amalarm clock's going off but you're not waking up
This isnt Chappening happening happening happening Dhappening
It isG
10. Song: Sunrise, Sunset
[Verse]
AmSunrise, G#sunset
AmSunrise, G#sunset
AmSwiftly G#go the AmdaysG#
AmSunrise, G#sunset
You Amwake up, then you G#undress
It AmalwaG#ys is the AmsameG#
A Amsunrise and the G#sun sets
You are Amlying while you G#confess
Keep AmtryinG#g to eAmxplainG#
A Amsunrise and the G#sun sets
You Amrealize, then you G#forget
What you have been Amtrying G#to rAmetainG#
But Eeverybody knows
It's Eall about the things
That Eget stuck inEside of your AmheadG# Am G#
Like the Esongs your roommate sings
Or a Evision of her body
As she Estretches out on your Ambed
G#? Am G#
And she raised her hands in the air
Asked you, Amwhen was the G#last time you Amlooked in the G#mirror?
'Cause you have AmchangedG# Am G#
Yeah, you've AmchanG#gedAm G#
AmSunrise, the G#sun sets
You are Amhopeful and then you G#regret
The AmcirclG#e never AmbreaksG#
With a Amsunrise and G#sunset
There's a Amchange of heart or G#address
Is there AmnothinG#g that rAmemains?G#
For a Amsunrise or a G#sunset
You're Ammanic or you're G#depressed
Will you Amever G#feel Amokay?G#
For a Amsunrise or a G#sunset
Your Amlover is an G#actress
Did you AmreallG#y think she'd Amstay?G#
For a Amsunrise or a G#sunset
You're either Amcoming or you G#just left
Am G#? Am G#
But you're always on the way
Towards a Amsunrise or a G#sunset
A Amscribble or a G#sonnet
They are Amreally just the G#same
To the Amsunrise or a G#sunset
The Ammaster and his G#servant
Have eAmxactlG#y the Amsame faG#te
It's a Amsunrise and a G#sunset
From a Amcradle to a G#casket
There is Amno waG#y to eAmscapeG#
The Amsunrise and the G#sunset
Hold your Amsadness like a G#puppet
Keep AmputtinG#g on the AmplayG#
But Eeverything you do
Is Eleading to the point
Where Eyou just won't know what to AmdoG# Am G#
And Eat that moment you may laugh
But Ethere is someone there
Who will be laughing Elouder than Amyou
So it's G#true
The Amtrick is comG#plete
You've beAmcome everyG#thing you said you Amnever would G#be
You're a AmfoolG# Am G#
You're a AmfoolG# Am G#
AmSunrise, G#sunset
AmSunrise, G#sunset
The Amsunrise and the G#sun sAmetsG#
AmSunrise, G#sunset
AmSunrise, the G#sun sets
The Amsunrise, the G#sun setAmsG#
AmSunrise, G#sunset
Go Amhome to your aG#partment
Put the Amcassette in the G#tape deckAm G#
And Amlet thaG#t fever AmplayG# Am G# Am G#
AmSunrise, G#sunset
Where Amare you G#Arienette?
Am G#
Am G#
Am G#
Am G#
Where Amare you G#Arienette?
11. Song: An Attempt To Tip The Scales
[Intro]
D F#m G A
[Verse]
Did you Dexpect it all to F#mstop at the Gwave of your Ahand?
Like the Dsun is just gonna F#mdrop if it's Gnight you deAmand?
Well, in the Ddark we are just F#mair so the Ghouse might disAsolve
Once we're Dgone, who's gonna F#mcare if we were Gever here at Aall?
Well, Gsummer's gonna come, it's gonna cAloud our eyes aF#mgain
No need to focus when there's Gnothing that's worth Aseeing
So we trade Dliquor for F#mblood in an atGtempt to tip the Ascales
I think you Dlost what you F#mloved in that Gmess of deAtails
They seemed so imF#mportant at the time but Gnow you can't even recall
F#mAny of the names, faces, or lines, it's more the Gfeeling of it Aall
Well, Gwinter's gonna end, it's gonna Aclean these veins again
F#mSo close to dying that I Gfinally can start Aliving
[Outro]
D F#m G A(repeat) end on F#m
12. Song: A Song To Pass The Time
[Verse]
There is a Emiddle-aged woman, she's F#mdragging her feet
She carries G#mbaskets of clothes to a F#mlaundromat
While the EMexican children kick F#mrocks into the street
And they G#mlaugh in a language I don't F#munderstand
But I love Athem... why do I love Ethem?
So the Eneighborhood's dimming, I F#msmoke on the porch
Watch the G#mpeople as they pass enclosed inF#mside their cars
And on their Efaces just anger or F#mdisappointment
I start G#mwishing there was something I could F#moffer them
A Aconsolation... what could I offer Ethem?
And they are Esad in their suburbs, robots F#mwater the lawn
And G#meverything they touch gets dusted F#mspotless
And so they Estart to believe they've not touched F#manything at all
And the G#mcars in the driveway only F#mmultiply
They are Elost in their houses, I've heard them F#msing in the shower
Making G#mspeeches to their sister on the F#mtelephone
Saying you come Ehome, you come here, don't stay so F#mfar away from me
This G#mweather has me wanting love more F#mtangible
Something I can Ahold... it's getting Ecold
I say F#mhold up our Efists to a Bflame in the Asky
To F#mblock out the Elight that's reachBing for our Aeyes
'Cause it... 'cause it would Eblind us, Ayeah it will Eblind us
Well I've Elocked my actions in the F#mgrooves of routine
So I may G#mnever be free of this F#mapathy
But I Ewait for a letter that's F#mcoming to me
She sends me G#mpictures of the ocean in an F#menvelope
So there still is Ehope, yes, I can be healed
There is someone F#mlooking for what I've concealed
In my secret G#mdrawer, in my pockets deep
You will find the F#mreasons that I can't sleep
And you will still want Ame... but will you still want Eme?
AWill you still want Eme?
Well, I say F#mcome for the Eweek, you can Bsleep in my Abed
And F#mpass through my Elife like a Bdream through my Ahead
It will... it will be Eeasy, AI'll make it Eeasy
But all I Ehave for the moment is a F#msong to pass the time
A G#mmelody to keep me from F#mworrying
Some Esimple progression to keep my F#mfingers busy
And G#mwords that are sure to come F#mback to me
And they'll be laughAing... and they'll be laughEing
AMy mediocriEty
AMy mediocriEty
[Outro]
A E A E
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Fevers And Mirrors
by Bright Eyes
Artist: Bright Eyes
Album : Fevers & Mirrors
Songs:
1. A Spindle
2. A Darkness
3. Fever
4. A Necklace
[Chords]
Am7
- X02010
Am7/F#
- 202010
G
- 320033
C
- X30210
F#
- 224432
B7
- X21201
E
- 022100
D7
- XX0212
D7sus4
- XX0213
[Verse]
Am7 Am7/F#
You turn on a spindle
G
You are so much looser now
C
But you're not explaining how
F# B7 E
You gained such new repose
Am7 Am7/F#
I touch the clasp of your locket
G
With its picture held
C
Some secret you wouldn't tell
F# B7 E
But let it choke your neck
Am7 Am7/F#
So we imagine a darkness
G
Where all shapes divide
C
Solids changing into light
F# B7 E
With a burst of heat so bright
E
Well fine
Am7 Am7/F# G C
Don't you do what I want you to
Am7 Am7/F# G C
Yeah, don't degrade yourself the way that I do
Am7 Am7/F# G C
'Cause you don't depend upon all the shit that I use
Am C D7 D7sus4 G
To make my moods immmmmmprove
Am7 Am7/F#
And near a sea of pianos
G
There were waves of chords
C
That crashed against the shore
F# B7 E
In one huge and pointless roar
Am7 Am7/F#
And there were girls bringing water
G
Like a dream they came
C
To cool the fever of my brain
F# B7 E
And soothe my burning throat
Am7 Am7/F#
And they made me a necklace
G
Hanging beads of sweat
C
On a string of my regrets
F# B7 E
And placed it 'round my neck
E
And they were singing
Am7 Am7/F# G C
Don't you do what you've wanted to
Am7 Am7/F# G C
Yeah, don't destroy yourself like those cowards do
Am7 Am7/F# G C
And maybe the sun keeps coming up 'cause it's gotten used to you
Am C D7 D7sus4 G
And your constant need forrrr proof
2. Song: A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks
[Verse]
C
Here is a scale, weigh it out and you will find easily
Em
More than sufficient doubt that these colors you see
Am
Were picked in advance by some careful hand
F G
With an absolute concept of beauty
C
They are smeared and these blurs come in random order
Em
To color the eyes of your former lovers
Am F
Hers were green like July except when she cried
F G
They were red
C
Now I know a disease that these doctors can't treat
Em
You contract it the day you accept all you see
Am
Is a mirror and a mirror is all it can be
F G
A reflection of something we're missing
C
And language just happened, it was never planned
Em
And it's inadequate to describe where I am
Am
In the room of my house where the light has never been
F G
Waiting for this day to end
F G
And these clocks keep unwinding and completely ignore
Em Am
Everything that we hate or adore
F G
Once the page of a calendar is turned it's no more
Em Am
So tell me then, what was it for?
F G C
Oh tell me, what was it for?
3. Song: The Calendar Hung Itself
[Verse]
F#m
Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
when you start to raise your head?
C#
And does he sing to you incessantly
from the place between your bed and wall?
F#m
Does he walk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
C#
Looking down every few steps
to pretend he walks with you?
F#m
Does he know that place below your neck
that is your favorite to be touched?
C#
And does he cry through broken sentences
like "I love you far too much"?
Bm E A D
Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
Bm E A D
Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes?
E F#m
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
E F#m
For every speck of tile there are a thousand more
E
That you won't ever see
A E D E F#m C# F# C#
But must hold inside yourself eternally
F#m
I drug your ghost across the country
and we plotted out my death
C#
In every city, memories would whisper
"Here is where you rest"
F#m
I was determined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
C#
And I settled for a telephone
Sang into your machine
F#m
"You are my sunshine,
C#
My only sunshine.
F#m
You are my sunshine
C#
My only sunshine"
Bm E A D
Bm E A D
E F#
E F#
E A E D E
F#m
I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
C#
She had eyes bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
F#m
And in a story told she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
C#
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
F#m
And it rose like thunder
C#
Clapped under our hands
F#m
And it stretched for centuries
C#
To a diary entry's end where I wrote
F#m
"You make me happy (WHAT?)
C#
When the skies are gray
F#m
You make me happy (WHAT?)
C#
When skies are gray and gray and gray"
Bm E A D
Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest
Bm E A D
With hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself
E F#m
But I will not weep for those dying days
E F#m
For all the ones who've left there are a few that stayed
E A E D
And they found me here and pulled me from the grass
E F#m E F#m E
...
Where I was laid
4. Song: Something Vague
[Intro and main progression]
E|----1----------0-------------3-------------0|
B|----1--1h3p1---1----1h3p1----0----0h3p0----1|
G|----2----------0-------------0-------------2|
D|-3-------------2-------------0-------------2|
A|------------3----------------2----------0---|
E|--------------------------3-----------------|
E|----1----------0-------------3---------3----|
B|----1--1h3p1---1----1h3p1----0---------0----|
G|----2----------0-------------0---------0----|
D|-3-------------2-------------0---------0----|
A|------------3----------------2---------2----|
E|--------------------------3--------3-3------|
[Verse]
F C G Am
Now and again it seems worse than it is
F C G
But mostly the view is accurate.
F C G Am
You see your breath in the air as you climb up the stairs
F C G
to that coffin you call your apartment.
Am E
And you sink in your chair
C G
Brush the snow from your hair
C G F
And drink the cold away
Am E
You are not really sure
C F
What you're doing this for
C G F
But you need something to fill up the days
Am E
A few more hours
C G Am
C G Am
F C G Am
There is a dream in my brain that just won't go away
F C G
It's been stuck there since it came a few nights ago
F C G Am
And I'm standing on a bridge in the town where I lived
F C G
As a kid with my mom and my brothers
Am E
And then the bridge disappears
C G
And I'm standing on air
C G F
With nothing holding me
Am E
And I hang like a star
C G
Fucking glow in the dark
C G F
For all those starving eyes to see
Am E
Like the ones we've wished on
C G
But now I'm confused
Am F
Is this death really you?
C G Am
And do these dreams have any meaning?
C G
No, no, I think it is more like a ghost
Am F
That's been following us both
C G Am
Something vague that we're not seein
F C D
Something more like a feeling
F G C
5. Song: The Movement Of A Hand
[Intro]
F# A E F#
[Verse]
F# A
You follow the footsteps
E A
Echoes leading down a hall
F# A
To a room, there's music playing
E A
Tiny bells with moving parts
F# A
Here the shadows make things ugly
E A
An effect quite undesirable
F# A
The bold and yellow daylight
E A
Grows like ivy across the wall
D E A
And bounces off of the painted porcelain
D E A
Tiny dancing doll
D E A
Her body spins as she pirouettes again
D E F# A E A
The world suddenly seems small
F# A
On an off-white subtle morning
E A
You stretch your legs in the front seat
F# A
The road has made a vacuum
E A
Where our voices used to be
F# A
And you lay your head onto my shoulder
E A
Pour like water over me
D E A
So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this
D E A
Drive that would be fine
D E A
And all the trees that line this curb would be
D E F# A E A
Rejoicing and alive
D E A
Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes
D E A
Fountains of your eyes
D E A
Because you finally understand the movement of a
D E F# A E A
Hand waving you goodbye
[Outro]
F# A E A
6. Song: Arienette
[Verse]
C#m
The fragile keep secrets gathered in pockets
G#
And they will sell them for nothing, a cheap watch or locket
E C#m
That kind of gold washes off
C#m
And the sad act like lepers, they stick to the shadows
G#
They long to ring bells of warning to tell of their coming
E C#m
So that the pure can shut their doors
C#m
And the angry are animals, senseless and savage
G#
They act without order in logical lapses
E C#m
They stain their mouths with blood
F#m C#m
So take my hand, this barren land is alive tonight
F#m C#m
Oh, the corn has grown stalks that form a wall to hide
F#m C#m
The wind carries sounds that I can't see from beyond that line
B A G#
Then the stalks begin to sway
C# B A G#
Oh, stay with me, Arienette
C#m
Until the wolves are away
A G# C#m A G#
YUP
C#m
Well the wicked are vultures, they bake in the canyons
G#
They circle in sunlight and wait for their victims
E C#m
To collapse and call to them
C#m
And the desperate are water, they'll run down forever
G#
As they soak into silence and end up together
E C#m
In a dark and distant, dark and distant place
F#m C#m
So don't leave me here with only mirrors watching me
F#m C#m
This house, it holds nothing but the memories
F#m C#m
And the moon, it leaves silver but never sleep
B A G#
And then the silver turns to gray
C# B A G#
So stay with me, Arienette
C#m
Until the wolves are away
7. Song: When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
[Intro]
C G Dm G
C G Am Am G G
[Verse]
C G
Tomorrow when I wake up I'm finding my brother
Dm G
And making him take me back down to the water
C G
That lake where we sailed and we laughed with our father
Am Am G
I will not desert him, I will not desert him
Dm G C Am
No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean
Dm G C Am
Or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me
Dm G C Am
I put my face in the dirt and then finally I see
C G C
The sky that has been avoiding me
C G
I started this letter, I'm gonna send it to Ruba
Dm G
It will be blessed by her eyes on the gulf coast of Florida
C G
With her feet in the sand and one hand on her swimsuit
Am G
She will recite the prayer of my pen
C G
Saying, time take us forward, relief from this longing
Dm G
They can land that plane on my heart. I don't care
C G
Just give me November, the warmth of a whisper
Am G
In the freezing darkness of my room
Dm G C Am
But no matter what I would do in an attempt to replace
Dm G C Am
All these pills that I take trying to balance my brain
Dm G C Am
Seen the curious girl with that look on her face
C G C
So surprised she stares out from her display case
8. Song: Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
[Intro]
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
[Verse]
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
The phone slips from a loose grip
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
Words were missed, then some apology
F#m Dmaj7
I didn't want to tell you this
A Bm F#m
No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with
Dmaj7 A Bm
I don't know, the past couple weeks, I guess
F#m Dmaj7
Thank you and hang up the phone
A Bm
Let the funeral start, hear the casket close
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
Let's pin split-black ribbon to your overcoat
F#m Dmaj7 A
The laughter pours from under doors in this house
Bm F#m
I don't understand that sound no more
Dmaj7 A Bm
Seems artificial like a TV set
Bm
Well Haligh Haligh Haligh Haligh
A
This weight, it must be satisfied
G
You offer only one reply
A
You know not what you do
Bm
But you tear and tear your hair from roots
A
From that same head you have twice removed
G
Now a lock of hair you said would prove
A
Our love would never die, well hahaha
Bm
F#m Dmaj7
I remember everything
A Bm
The words we spoke on freezing South Street
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
And all those mornings watching you get ready for school
F#m Dmaj7
You combed your hair inside that mirror
A Bm
The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
Something about those bright colors would always make you feel better
F#m Dmaj7
But now we speak with ruined tongues
A Bm
And the words we say aren't meant for anyone
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
It's just a mumbled sentence to a passing acquaintance but there was once you
F#m Dmaj7
You said you hate my suffering
A Bm
And you understood and you'd take care of me
F#m Dmaj7 A Bm
You'd would always be there, well where are you now?
Bm
Haligh, Haligh, Haligh, Haligh
A
The plans were never finalized
G
But left to hang like yarn and twine
A
Dangling before my eyes
Bm
As you tear and tear your hair from roots
A
From that same head that you have twice removed
G
Now a lock of hair you said would prove
A
Our love would never die
Bm
And I sing and sing of awful things
A
The pleasure that my sadness brings
G
And my fingers press onto the strings
A
Yet another clumsy chord
Bm
Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie
A
This weight will now be satisfied
G
I'm gonna give you only one reply
A
I know not who I am
Bm
But I talk in the mirror
A
To the stranger that appears
G
Our conversations are circles
G
Always one sided
A
Nothing is clear
Bm
Except we keep coming back
A
To this meaning that I lack
G
He says the choices were given
G
Now you must live them
A
Or just not live
Bm
But do you want that?
9. Song: The Center Of The World
Tablature by Laura Sharp
[Verse]
G Bm Am
At the center of the world there's a statue of a girl
C D G
She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry
Bm Am
I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand
C D G
This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand
Bm Am
It came to rest upon a beach with a million others there
C D G
We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out so that we could disappear
Bm Am
Into the endlessness of blue into the horror of the truth
C D Em
See, we are far less than we knew, yeah, we are far less than we knew
Em C
But we knew what we could taste
Em
Girls found honey to drench our hands
B
The men cut marble to mark our graves
B G
Said we'll need something to remind us of
B
All the sweetness that has passed through us
Em
The priests dressed children for a choir
B
But found no joy in what was sung
B C D D G
The funeral had begun
G Bm Am
In the middle of the day when you drive home to your place
C D G
From that job that makes you sleep back to the thoughts that keep you awake
Bm Am
Long after night has come to claim any light that still remains
C D G
In the corner of the frame that you put around her face
Bm
Two pills just weren't enough
Am
The alarm clock's going off but you're not waking up
C D
This isnt happening happening happening happening happening
G
It is
10. Song: Sunrise, Sunset
[Verse]
Am G#
Sunrise, sunset
Am G#
Sunrise, sunset
Am G# Am G#
Swiftly go the days
Am G#
Sunrise, sunset
Am G#
You wake up, then you undress
Am G# Am G#
It always is the same
Am G#
A sunrise and the sun sets
Am G#
You are lying while you confess
Am G# Am G#
Keep trying to explain
Am G#
A sunrise and the sun sets
Am G#
You realize, then you forget
Am G# Am G#
What you have been trying to retain
E
But everybody knows
E
It's all about the things
E E Am G# Am G#
That get stuck inside of your head
E
Like the songs your roommate sings
E
Or a vision of her body
E Am
As she stretches out on your bed
G# Am G#
?
And she raised her hands in the air
Am G# Am G#
Asked you, when was the last time you looked in the mirror?
Am G# Am G#
'Cause you have changed
Am G# Am G#
Yeah, you've changed
Am G#
Sunrise, the sun sets
Am G#
You are hopeful and then you regret
Am G# Am G#
The circle never breaks
Am G#
With a sunrise and sunset
Am G#
There's a change of heart or address
Am G# Am G#
Is there nothing that remains?
Am G#
For a sunrise or a sunset
Am G#
You're manic or you're depressed
Am G# Am G#
Will you ever feel okay?
Am G#
For a sunrise or a sunset
Am G#
Your lover is an actress
Am G# Am G#
Did you really think she'd stay?
Am G#
For a sunrise or a sunset
Am G#
You're either coming or you just left
Am G# Am G#
?
But you're always on the way
Am G#
Towards a sunrise or a sunset
Am G#
A scribble or a sonnet
Am G#
They are really just the same
Am G#
To the sunrise or a sunset
Am G#
The master and his servant
Am G# Am G#
Have exactly the same fate
Am G#
It's a sunrise and a sunset
Am G#
From a cradle to a casket
Am G# Am G#
There is no way to escape
Am G#
The sunrise and the sunset
Am G#
Hold your sadness like a puppet
Am G# Am G#
Keep putting on the play
E
But everything you do
E
Is leading to the point
E Am G# Am G#
Where you just won't know what to do
E
And at that moment you may laugh
E
But there is someone there
E Am
Who will be laughing louder than you
G#
So it's true
Am G#
The trick is complete
Am G# Am G#
You've become everything you said you never would be
Am G# Am G#
You're a fool
Am G# Am G#
You're a fool
Am G#
Sunrise, sunset
Am G#
Sunrise, sunset
Am G# Am G#
The sunrise and the sun sets
Am G#
Sunrise, sunset
Am G#
Sunrise, the sun sets
Am G# Am G#
The sunrise, the sun sets
Am G#
Sunrise, sunset
Am G#
Go home to your apartment
Am G# Am G#
Put the cassette in the tape deck
Am G# Am G# Am G# Am G#
And let that fever play
Am G#
Sunrise, sunset
Am G#
Where are you Arienette?
Am G#
Am G#
Am G#
Am G#
Am G#
Where are you Arienette?
11. Song: An Attempt To Tip The Scales
[Intro]
D F#m G A
[Verse]
D F#m G A
Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand?
D F#m G A
Like the sun is just gonna drop if it's night you demand?
D F#m G A
Well, in the dark we are just air so the house might dissolve
D F#m G A
Once we're gone, who's gonna care if we were ever here at all?
G A F#m
Well, summer's gonna come, it's gonna cloud our eyes again
G A
No need to focus when there's nothing that's worth seeing
D F#m G A
So we trade liquor for blood in an attempt to tip the scales
D F#m G A
I think you lost what you loved in that mess of details
F#m G
They seemed so important at the time but now you can't even recall
F#m G A
Any of the names, faces, or lines, it's more the feeling of it all
G A
Well, winter's gonna end, it's gonna clean these veins again
F#m G A
So close to dying that I finally can start living
[Outro]
D F#m G A F#m
(repeat) end on
12. Song: A Song To Pass The Time
[Verse]
E F#m
There is a middle-aged woman, she's dragging her feet
G#m F#m
She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat
E F#m
While the Mexican children kick rocks into the street
G#m F#m
And they laugh in a language I don't understand
A E
But I love them... why do I love them?
E F#m
So the neighborhood's dimming, I smoke on the porch
G#m F#m
Watch the people as they pass enclosed inside their cars
E F#m
And on their faces just anger or disappointment
G#m F#m
I start wishing there was something I could offer them
A E
A consolation... what could I offer them?
E F#m
And they are sad in their suburbs, robots water the lawn
G#m F#m
And everything they touch gets dusted spotless
E F#m
And so they start to believe they've not touched anything at all
G#m F#m
And the cars in the driveway only multiply
E F#m
They are lost in their houses, I've heard them sing in the shower
G#m F#m
Making speeches to their sister on the telephone
E F#m
Saying you come home, you come here, don't stay so far away from me
G#m F#m
This weather has me wanting love more tangible
A E
Something I can hold... it's getting cold
F#m E B A
I say hold up our fists to a flame in the sky
F#m E B A
To block out the light that's reaching for our eyes
E A E
'Cause it... 'cause it would blind us, yeah it will blind us
E F#m
Well I've locked my actions in the grooves of routine
G#m F#m
So I may never be free of this apathy
E F#m
But I wait for a letter that's coming to me
G#m F#m
She sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelope
E
So there still is hope, yes, I can be healed
F#m
There is someone looking for what I've concealed
G#m
In my secret drawer, in my pockets deep
F#m
You will find the reasons that I can't sleep
A E
And you will still want me... but will you still want me?
A E
Will you still want me?
F#m E B A
Well, I say come for the week, you can sleep in my bed
F#m E B A
And pass through my life like a dream through my head
E A E
It will... it will be easy, I'll make it easy
E F#m
But all I have for the moment is a song to pass the time
G#m F#m
A melody to keep me from worrying
E F#m
Some simple progression to keep my fingers busy
G#m F#m
And words that are sure to come back to me
A E
And they'll be laughing... and they'll be laughing
A E
My mediocrity
A E
My mediocrity
[Outro]
A E A E
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