standard tuning
no capo
Chords:
SOL-32003x
MIm-022000
LAm-x02210
DO-x32010
RE-xx0232
FA-133211
REm-x57765
FAm-x8-10-10-9-8
this riff is repeated throughout the song
e-----------
B-----------
SOL-2/
D-----------
A-----------
E-----------
here's the intro riff after the band comes in (it's also repeated later)
e-------10----------------------------10--------------------
B-12h13-----13p12p10------------12h13-----13p12p10----------
G--------------------12-12~~~-----------------------12-12~~-
D-----------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------
SOL
Cherry picking through the stars
MIm
And falling cannonballs
LAm
Waiting for the break of dawn
DO
To start its morning crawl
SOL
Polluted rays of filtered light
MIm
Tropical and warm
LAm
Making shadows through
DO RE
The snow white resin covered skulls
DO RE MIm RE
Happy birthday to the war
DO
Standing by the wall
LAm
A rainbow made of stars
SOL
Under seven different shades of grey
FA
Spreading out across the arc
DO
Days of wonder spent
LAm
Out there killing time
REm
Now this may not leave a mark on me
FAm
But I sure as hell was there
(intro G, and the intro lick thing)
SOL
Caravanning on the moonlit
Locust covered trail
DO
We came out like a stream of bats
MIm RE
Exploding from the well
SOL
Slipping through the whirlpools
MIm
Of trees and floating cars
LAm
Behind a winter coated mule
DO RE
Down record breaking falls
DO RE MIm RE
Into oblivion's open jaws
Standing by the wall
A rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Days of wonder spent
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
D...G....C (x3 then) Em....D
e----------------------------5-7b-5-----10p8p7--8p7\5---------------------5---7b-7-5------
B-7--8~-----------------7--8---------8----------------7h8-----------8p7h8---8---------8~~-
G-7------7-5-4----------7---------------------------------7\0-------7---------------------
D--------------5/7--5~--------------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------0------------------------
Happy Birthday to the war
Days of wonder spent
By a rainbow made of stars
Under seven different shades of grey
Spreading out across the arc
Standing by the wall
Out there killing time
Now this may not leave a mark on me
But I sure as hell was there
(piano interlude..chords same as guitar solo then..)
SOL
Educated under God
To walk a neutral line
DO
Give me neither poverty
SOL
Nor riches in my time
Take my body and my mind
My heart is far behind
DO
With a dozen poems in my ears
MIm RE
Ricocheting wild
(Intro chords and lick to fade out)
The Passenger
standard tuning (alt version at bottom)
capo IV
Chords (relative to capo)
SOL-320003
DO-x32010
RE-xx0232
FA-133211
SOL DO RE SOL DO RE DO SOL
SOL DO
Permission now to let this thing land
RE SOL
I'm too far gone to know where I am
DO
Conditions are worse than we planned
RE DO SOL
Permission now to let this thing land
SOL DO
Heading straight into the blackness
SOL DO
Beyond the point of ever turning back
SOL DO
Slipping off the radar through a hole in space
RE DO SOL
Goes the passenger sitting backwards
Adam took the apple, I was not involved
I'm not responsible for how lost we are
Batten down the hatches, extinction calls
But Adam took the apple, I was not involved
Heading straight into the blackness
Way beyond the point of ever turning back
Slipping off the radar through a hole in space
Goes the passenger sitting backwards
RE
May be a rumble
SOL DO
Maybe nothing more
RE
Maybe a thunder
SOL DO
There before she blows
FA
Maybe not a big bang
RE
But just a little white noise
Bb.....Eb.......F.....Bb....Eb.....F.....D (back to verse)
Into the furnace of red twilight
Threading like a needle through searchlights
Fading further and spinning right
Into the furnace of red twilight
Heading straight into the blackness
Too far gone, now there's no turning back
Slipping off the radar into a hole in space
Goes the passenger sitting backwards
Note: this song can also be done without a capo use the following chord changes from
above
Capo IV No Capo
SOL SI
DO MI
RE FA#
FA LA
SIb RE
MIb SOL
The Beautiful Side of Somewhere
standard tuning
Capo I
Chords (relative to the capo, some names may be incorrect), after the verse and chorus
it basically repeats
SOL-32003x
SIm-x24432
MIm-022000
DOm-x35543
DO-032010
RE-xx0232
REsus-xx0230
REsus2-xx0233
Intro (use slide if you can, without capo)
e------------------11-------------------13------------------------------------------
B-13~--13\11----------13~~--13\11-----------13~~-13\11-------11/13------------------
G-----------13-13----------------13-13-----------------13-13-------13\12\10/12-13~~-
D-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SOL SIm
Tomorrow is gonna make you cry
MIm
It's gonna make you kneel
DOm
Before it breaks you from inside
SOL
Still pressing on
SIm
Arm over arm
MIm DOm
Still trying to get both feet back on to the ground
DO
They are harvesting these fields in autumn
SOL RE
We're different now than when we started
SOL MIm
I am ready to wake up
LAm
There in the exodus
REsus2 RE REsus RE
On the beautiful side of somewhere
There on the pavement underneath the yellow moon
I think of you and just how easily we bruise
A folded address in my pocket I have stopped
Trying to believe for you that the bottom didn't drop
I am on the platform, covered with dust
I pray they take the both of us
I am ready to wake up
There in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere
I am ready to come down
And see us both somehow
On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday
I am lighting matches for the rescue
Some are candles, some are fuses
Acting on my best behavior
Switching over every breaker
DO
As we're plowing through these laws of nature
SOL RE
Disregarding every acre
DO
I'm lying in my Sunday best
SOL RE
Assuming this was not a test
I am ready to wake up
There in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere
I am ready to come down
And see us both somehow
On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday
On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday
Here He Comes (Confessions of a Drunken Marionette)
standard tuning
no capo
Chords (mostly power chords, but I'll list the full chord)
MI-022100
LA-002220
SI-x2444x
DO#m-x46654
SOL#7-464544
Intro E...A....B....E....A....B....E..(to verse) this intro isn't
exact, i don't think they use double stops on the record but it sounds
kind of good to me, you can just take the top note to get the melody
e-4--2--0-2/4--5-5--4\2---0---0-
B-----------------------4---4---
G-4--2--1-2/4--6-6--4\2---------
D-----------------------4---4---
A-------------------------------
E-------------------------------
LA SI MI
Here comes your drunken marionette
LA SI MI
Dragging his mess of threads
LA SI MI LA
There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs
SI MI
He says, "Who will ignore me when you're gone?"
Come on lift me up
I wanna dance by your tin cup
A tower of beauty with a split in your tongue
"Who will ignore me when you're gone?"
He says, "Who will ignore me when you're gone?"
LA SI MI
Here he comes
LA SI MI
Here he comes
LA
Be still the wooden heart
SI
That wouldn't ever part
LA MI
With the drunken marionette
Been mainlining bad thoughts
Been drinking things I wish I'd not
Intoxicated with sad songs
"Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
They sing Auld Lang Syne
I've got mutiny on my mind
A guilty conscience means at least you've got one
"Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
He says, "Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn't ever part
FA#m SI
Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet
LA MI
For the drunken marionette
DO#m SOL#7 LA MI
Carry on and turn the lights low when you go
DO#m SOL#7
In the hours left
LA
I hope you feel
SI MI
The things that I know I won't
e-------0---------0---0---0------------------------------
B------0---2/5--4---2---0----7h9--7h9p7-----9b--7--------
G-1h2------------------------------------9--9-----9p8\6~-
D--------------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------
What you give is what you get
These days I worry about your debt
Who carries evil out
Evil will come
"Who will defend you when I'm gone?"
He says, "Who will defend you when I'm gone?"
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn't ever part
Who's waiting on a spark
that hasn't happened yet
Here he comes
Here he comes
Be still the wooden heart
That wouldn't ever part
Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet
For the drunken marionette
We're Already There
standard tuning
no capo
Chords (this song is mostly that, there are a few lead parts but doing
all of them would require lots of patience)
DO-x32010
SOL-320003
SI7-x21200
MIm-022000
DOm-x35543
DO/SI-x20010
LAm-002210
DO SOL SI7 MIm
Quarter moon on a city grown thick
DO SOL SI7
With good advice that won't stick
MIm RE
From the ballrooms to the suburbs
DO
And the abandoned mines
SI7
Atlantis may be rising but we're all out of time
Colored lights on the fire escape
Bodies move behind drapes
The light is uneven and we're safer in pairs
And we're no match for what's waiting
For each of us out there
SOL DOm
Whistle baby, while we walk
SOL DOm
Don't say anything, do not talk
DO DO/SI LAm DO/SI
The journey is over, it is time to exhale
DO DO/SI
Wherever we were going
RE DO SOL SI7 MIm
We're already there
It's over the turnstiles and through the guardrails
And into Washington Square
Cause no amount of nightmares would ever compare
To the thought of only silence in this ghost filled air
Whistle baby, while we walk
Don't say anything, do not talk
The journey is over, it's too late to prepare
Why can't you see that, baby
We're already there
Here comes your silhouette
And more pillow talk
Here comes the ticking of these clocks
They say the quickest way to end a war is just to lose
Another chamber locks and I already withdrew
Here comes the booming and the hunger of each night
Here comes the burden of might
This day was not divinely made to leave you impressed
We may become someone someday, but we haven't yet
Whistle baby, while we walk
Don't say anything, do not talk
The journey is over, it's time to repair
Whatever we were building
We're already there
God Says Nothing Back
standard tuning
Capo III
Chords (relative to the capo)
LAm-x02210
DO-x32010
SOL-32003x
FA-133211
SOL/SOL#-40003x
LAm DO
Seems like the world's gone underground
SOL FA
Where no gods or heroes dare to go down
LAm DO
As teardrops from a hole in heaven come
SOL FA
Overhead like ravens dropping down like bombs
DO SOL /SOL#)
Through the morning silver-frosted glow
LAm FA
God says nothing back but I told you so
LAm
I told you so
i told you so
e-5p3--------------
B-----5--3h5-------
G------------5-4-2-
D------------------
A------------------
E------------------
God bless the void of my daydreams
Head back in the snow making angel wings
As slow motion dancing lights at dawn
Sail beneath a burning yellow sun
I'm calling out from the deep ends of my bones
Time says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
Still waters rising in my mind
Black and deep, smoke behind my eyes
Last night I could not sleep at all
I hallucinated that you were in my arms
To be in your heart I failed my own
Love says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
(acoustic guitar solo, maybe someday i'll attempt it. Theres a lot
of double stops and it eases into a pentatonic i think)
Still here reclimbing every rung
Someone saw something
Someone speak up
Back over the rotted bridge I cross
Open up these graves, let these bodies talk
Buried under leaves blood red and gold
Death says nothing back but I told you so
I told you so
Notes: This song sounds great if you use arpeggios during the chords
Back to California
standard tuning
Capo II (alt version below)
Chords:
MIm-022000
SI7-x21200
DO-032010
SOL-320003
DO/SOL-3x2010
Em..B7...C...G (x4) to verse Em
MIm
Feels like a ghost here in this room
Not the kind that rides a saddle in a costume
All around me, all around you
In from the window for a drag of your perfume
SI7 DO SOL
Let's move back to California
MIm SI7
Let's make a promise, baby
DO SOL
Let's both be there
MIm SI7 DO SOL
Put our feet deep in the sands
LA
This garden's only got four corners
DO RE MIm (intro)
Back to your trenches, back to California
The days keep coming and the years overlap
Been crawling all over each other like wet cats
I hear the rebels yelling out in the dunes
And I don't think it's half as funny as I used to
Let's move back to California
Let's make a promise, baby
Let's both be there
Put our feet deep in the sands
Let's leave behind these maps and handguns
We're on our way back to California
SOL DO/SOL
We've got California in our eyes
SOL
Come on and catch us if you can
DO/SOL
With California in our eyes
(intro)
Passing down through a valley full of lost sheep
Straight is the gate, narrow is the walkway
Mercury rising and poppies in bloom
This is the kind of thing that I can get used to
Let's move back to California
Let's make a promise, baby
Let's both be there
Put our feet deep in the sand
There's still no shortage in creating bad blood
We're on our way back to California
We've got California in our eyes
Come on and catch us if you can
With California in our eyes
Fast as we can
Back to California
Come on and catch us if you can
Back to California
Fast as we can
Back to California
(repeat and fade, played without capo)
e-------12-----------------------
B-14h15----15p14p12--14-14p12----
G-----------------------------14-
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
Capo II No Capo
MIm FA#m
SI7 DO#7
DO RE
SOL LA
DO/SOL RE/LA
I Am A Building
standard tuning
Capo V (alt version below)
Chords:
SIm-x24432
SOL-320003
RE-xx0232
LA-002220
Daug5-xx0332
RE6-xx0432
RE7-xx0212
MI7-020100
SIm SOL
I'm here by my window
RE LA
I am waiting for your parade
SIm SOL
I will salute you
RE
From above the crowd
LA
As you make your way
RE
You won the battle
Daug5
You've won the war
RE6
I admit it now
RE7 SOL
I could not give any more
MI7
My condition is your reward
SOL
I Am A building
LA SIm
Here without doors
SIm
The altitude is now
SOL
Getting to me
RE
As they applaud you
LA
On the boulevard
SIm
The whole valley looks like
SOL
Someone's body
RE
All the people look like
LA
Little scars
RE
This day is taking
Daug5
Forever
RE6
I will never say
RE7 SOL
Never say never again
The flesh around me
MI7
Is only pretend
SOL
Return to sender
LA
Every letter
SIm
That is yours
MI7
I am sure
SOL
That I am a building
LA SIm
Here without doors
SIm
Fire blazing
SOL
On the overpass
RE
Cattle grazing
LA
In fields of dead grass
SIm SOL
Last summer was earthquake weather
RE
By November
LA
This too should have passed
RE
I am not moving
Daug5
I am landlocked
RE6
I am looking through
RE7 SOL
A thousand windows spread across
MI7
A thousand floors
SOL
There in a landfill
LA SIm
Where Eden was before
MI7
But not anymore
SOL
I Am A building
LA SIm
Here without doors
RE SOL
Did you see me waving to you from above
Things are looking clear now
RE SOL
My eyes are wide enough to see the way a sniper does
(back to verse chords)
Behind the barrel of a good gun
RE
For worse or better
Daug5
I surrender
RE6
It may not matter
RE7 SOL
But I'm sadder than you'll ever know
MI7
I am your inferno
SOL
Here all in yellow
LA SIm MI7
With embers blowing north
SOL
No sense in returning
LA SIm MI7
I'm not worried anymore
SOL
I Am A building
LA SIm
That is here without doors
Capo V No Capo
SIm MIm
SOL DO
RE SOL
LA RE
Daug5 Gaug5
RE6 SOL6
RE7 SOL7
MI7 LA7
Note: This has some cool steel guitar (or slide guitar)
and it's easy to find the notes on the capo version
From The Bottom of My Heart
standard tuning
Capo IV
Chords
MIm-022000
DO-032010
SOL-320003
SI7-02120x
MIm
Fire on the porch on a summer's night
DO
All of my things are there inside
SOL SI7
Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher
MIm
I smell leaves and burning tires
DO
Dogs in the meadows barking wild
SOL SI7
Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done
I'm not drunk and I'm not sad
There's nothing inside that I want back
Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're at
Do you wonder how I am tonight
Then don't lose time looking in my eyes
Not every tear means you're gonna cry
DO
From the bottom of my heart
SOL
Comes a cold dark feeling
SI7
There is nothing but dust
MIm
In the layers I'm peeling
From the bottom of my heart
Beats a rattling drum
Coming up from the depths
Into the rays of the sun
Now under crushing skies of grays
Paralyzed with phantom pains
Before this room became just a place
Where I just sleep through endless days
Spinning webs and carving names
Where thoughts break up, exploding in space
But I once crossed a quarter mile
Through black pools of razor wires
And cut through steel with the edge of a file
While singing rhapsodies in stride
Hell-bent and dignified
Now my time has come, "now who you fooling and why?"
From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
There is eminent death
To the promise I'm keeping
From the bottom of my heart
Comes an army of one
Marching back up the steps
Into the rays of the sun
Pale-faced and hollowed eyes
Buried under ruptured skies
Not every smile means I'm laughing inside
Two-faced and compromised
I've enraptured you with lies
Everything means nothing and tonight everything is mine
From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
I have buried so much
In the layers I'm peeling
From the bottom of my heart
A battle will come
Coming up from the depths
Into the rays of the sun
From the bottom of my heart
Comes a cold dark feeling
Wrapped around tight
With no sign of leaving
From the bottom of my heart
A ballad is sung
Through a whisper she comes
Into the rays of the sun
Note: The chords are the same throughout, if there is a specific
lick or lead part you want to know, just leave a message and i'll add it
Nearly Beloved
standard tuning
no capo
Chords
SOL-32003x
RE-xx0232
MIm-022000
DO-032010
SI7-x24242
SIm-x24432
(intro)
SOL RE MIm DO RE MIm
e----------------------0~----------------------------------------0~-
B---3-----3--3----3-1--0~-----------------1----------------------0~-
G-------0-------2------0~-2/4\2\0------0--0---2/4\2--2-2\0----------
D-----0------0---------2~---------0h2---------0------------0h2------
A----------------------2~---------------3---------------------------
E-3--------------------0~--------------------------------------0----
SOL RE MIm
Last night I dreamt one thousand lies
DO RE MIm
I could see the dawn through a different set of eyes
SOL RE MIm
There in my slumber passing time
DO RE MIm
Long live the world resting on its side
DO SOL
I walked the orchard with you
RE MIm
Your hand in my mine
DO SOL SI7
In the evergreens drinking wine
MIm RE
I saw the snow fall in black and white
DO SOL
From the auburn sky
SI7 MIm
Last night I lived more than one thousand lives
D G (to intro)
Not one of them survived
Up through the earth and at dawn I came
I crossed the kingdom through venom pouring rain
In the vacuum of my own brigade
Resurrected to make you mine again
Orpheus looked back once
She sailed the underworld
No second chances will be earned
I have returned as a phantom now
To walk the bow and stern
Last night I lived more than one thousand lives
Not one of them survived
MIm SIm
If we could do better I know that we would
DO SOL RE
Maybe admit it now, we're not that good
MIm SIm
We keep the needle between zero and one
DO SOL RE
You play your fiddle, baby, I'll play dumb
(piano solo use verse chords)
Into the pastures of our minds
Goes my nearly beloved and I
Blazing two parallel white lines
Through this broken heart spilt open wide
Time might be on my side
But it's mostly far behind
I was the apple of your eye
Now I'm the boy spinning on a wheel there
Stuck with knives
Last night I lived more than one thousand lives
Not one of them survived
Note: There are variations of the intial intro throughout the song
How Far You've Come
standard tuning
Capo II
Chords (essentially the same throughout)
SI7-021200
SI7(2)-x24242
Intro (not relative to capo)
e-----------------------------------------------
B-------10--9-10\7---10-9-10\5--10-10/12\10\9\7-
G---9-9-----------------------------------------
D-7---------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------
SOL SI7 MIm
You'd have a wonderful day
DO SOL RE DO
If you could see how lucky you are
RE SOL DO
Now don't get carried away with your heart
RE SOL
You're better where you are
You're not the only one
Who's failed to hang on to a moving star
Now don't be sorry, what's done now is done
And this is who you are
These days feel numbered and long
There's no one to speak of
There's no one at all
But you're not the reason that everyone's gone
That's not how they are
There is no system to change
No conditions are made
No permissions to start
Now don't go drawing lines in the sand
That's not who you are
SOL SI7(2)
Sometimes a high wall is just a wall
DO LA7
Sometimes it's only there to make sure you feel small
DO/SOL RE
Or may be there to save you from the depths of a much deeper fall
(play intro then..) not relative to capo
e--------------------9-9h10p9-7----------------------------------
B-------7---7--10-9~~-----------10~~~----------------------------
G---7h9----7----------------------------11p9p7--9p7--6-----------
D-7-------7--------------------------------------------9--7p6h7--
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
The truth will not set you free
It's okay to believe that you're not good enough
God is not angry, not blind, deaf or dumb
He knows how far you've come
All Things New Again
standard tuning
no capo
Chords: (verses mostly the same, and end chorus is just extended)
DO#7-x464464
SI7-x24242
LA FA#m MI
New heaven over a brand new sky
LA FA#m
New breed of wonder on the vine
RE
Among the living
LA MI
There is new promise in this night
New arms to hold back the revolution
New eyes to recognize what you've become
New blood to recover
DO#7
A new will to honor all God's creations
RE MI FA#m
All things are new again
Within and without
RE MI FA#m
All things are new again
New shepherd roaming through the tall grass
A new temple rising through the falling ash
That buries the tracks
Of millions of boots marching in packs
Clearwater rolling through the dam's collapse
Out to the harbor where they're sailing back
New flag on the mast
Without any secrets, without any past
All things are new again
Within and without
RE DO#m FA#m
Sooner or later the ending begins
SI7 RE MI LA
Just then it can be said that all things are new again
LA DO#m
New ghost returning to the earth beneath the haze
FA#m REm
New poets burning through the lines of every page
RE LA MI
I'm an unpainted portrait
RE LA MI
I am staring at a new sunset
DO#7
Without any memories yet
All things are new again
Within and without
Sooner or later the ending begins
Just then it can be said that all things are new again
Within and without
Sooner or later every season ends
Then forever it can be said that all things are new again
|