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Saturday, March 11, 2017

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Heartworms Chords by The Shins

Heartworms Chords by The Shins

[Intro]
E   G#m   D   A   B   A B
La   la   la  la  la


[Verse 1]
E      B               D                 A
Well I guess I'm just here to test your patience
E     B          G#m                  A
Cause you're so smart my tricks don't work at all
E   G#m   D         A             
Is it my lack of education? 
     B   C#m  A
Just tell me why you never call


[Verse 2]
E            B              D            A
Behind your symmetry lies a fundamental difference
E         B                   G#m                  A
There are those who own their minds and those who crawl
E      G#m      D               A
No offense but, in between the lines I'm reading
E        F#m          G#m       A                      B           A  B
You look out for your own, and you ain't gonna look at me that way


[Pre-Chorus]
A   E     B    A  B
And it's true
   A          E
So what can I do?


[Chorus]
E            B                  F#m
Anything to get some of your affection
A
(What can I do?)
E        B               F#m
Maybe impress you with a song
A
(What can I do?)
E             B            C#m     B                A        B           A  B
I'm trying to minimize the damage done cause there ain't no one like you


[Break]
E   G#m   D   A


[Verse 3]
E             B                  D               A
I found that postcard from that trip you took to Thailand
E           B               G#m                 A
I remember studying all the words writ in your pretty hand
E             G#m            D             A
The little lines the little curves held a sacred meaning
B         C#m  A
Or so I thought, but I had it wrong


[Verse 4]
E                 B                  D                      A
Now I'm trying to figure out when it was you gave me these heartworms
E           B               G#m              A
I feel them wriggling in my blood, you gonna do me harm
E     G#m      D                A
Right now I'd rather lose this losing feeling 
E        F#m           G#m
That came on when you cooled off
 A                           B           A B
Started treating me in this friendly way


[Pre-Chorus]
A   E     B    A  B
And it's true
   A          E
So what can I do?


[Chorus]
E            B               F#m
Oh won't you be still for a moment
A
(What can I do?)
E                B                    F#m
So I can push a feather through your heart
A
(What can I do?)
E             B            C#m     B                A        B           A  B    A B   A B
I'm trying to minimize the damage done cause there ain't no one like you

   A          E
So what can I do?


[Chorus]
E            B          F#m
When I get lonely to distraction
A
(What can I do?)
E        B               F#m
Maybe impress you with a song
A
(What can I do?)
E         B                 
No easy way aound it
C#m         B       A               B           A B
You're the saddest dream that ever came true


[Outro]
E   B   D   A   
La  la  la  la  
E  G#m  D   A    B
La  la  la  la  la
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Sunday, February 19, 2017

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Mildenhall Chords by The Shins

Mildenhall Chords by The Shins

[Intro]
C


[Verse 1]
C
At fifteen we had to leave the States again
C                                            F
Dad was stationed at an RAF base they called Mildenhall
                C
Black moss on a busted wall
C
The cobblestones made it hard to skate
C
I thought my flattop was so new wave
         F                  C
Until it melted away in the Suffolk rain
         G7                 C
Well god damn, you miss the USA


[Chorus]
F                               C
Then a kid in class passed me a tape
F                              C      G7
An invitation, not the hand of fate


[Verse 2]
C
I guess my shoes said I might relate
C                                                 F
Somehow she knew I'd like to stay up waiting with her in the cold
                   C
For cheap beer and rock 'n roll
         G7                            C
Which in time put lots of thing in my mind


[Chorus]
F                          C
A kid in class passed me a tape
F                                     C     G7
We saw some bands down at the corn exchange


[Verse 3]
C
I wonder where my sister was that night
C
Back at home under the tanning bed lights
      F
I can still see the glow
                      C
Strange rays from her window
     G7                      C
Each night, as I was skating home
C   
Started messing with my dad's guitar
C           
Taught me some chords just to start me off
F                       C
Whittling away on those rainy days 
           G7                         C
And that's how we get to where we are now


[Chorus]
F                          C
A kid in class passed me a tape
F                                    C      G7
A band called The Jesus and the Mary Chain


[Verse 4]
C   
I Started messing with my dad's guitar
C           
Taught me some chords just to start me off
F                       C
Whittling away on those rainy days 
           G7                         C
And that's how we get to where we are now
           G7                         Fmaj7
And that's how we get to where we are now


[Outro]
Fmaj7
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Friday, October 28, 2016

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Dead Alive Chords by The Shins

Dead Alive Chords by The Shins

[Verse 1]

Em      A         G       A
   On a walk in a fragile state
Em       A            G        G    D
   Weird angle coming over the wire
Em      A           G        A
   Back home we got girls in braids
               G         A                C                      C  D
   And they're on roller skates, and they roll any way they like


Em         A          G           A
   From my town I can always look down
Em              A           G           G       D
   Down from my nose to the fish in the barrels
Em            A        G     A
   But in the wiles of human life
         G        A          C                    C  D
   There are pity nights and ray of gentle lights


[Chorus 1]

Em      A      C         A
   So tonight, dance and cry
C            G    G  D  Em
   The dead alive


[Verse 2]

Em     A          G       A
   Monuments were awfully dense
Em        A       G           G       D
   I flew by in a daze on the freeway
Em        A            G         A
   He can whine of our different times
      G        A             C                     C  D
   But me, I'm fine with the mirrors this far away


Em          A            G         A
   With the pills in our bodies to function
Em            A           G              G    D
   Rain gonna fall on the hills where we hide
Em          A             G           A
   Wash the blood and the guts to the ocean
G            A           C                  C  D
   Leave the pike making everything alright


[Chorus 2]

Em      A      C         A
   So tonight, dance and cry
C            G    G  D  Em
   The dead alive


[Musical Interlude]

Em  D  G    G  D
Em  D  G    


[Chorus 3]

G       A      C         A
   So tonight, dance and cry
C            G    G  D  Em
   The dead alive


[Outro]

Em    A             G          A
Em    A             G          A
                      Figments
Em    A             G          A
Em    A             G          A
   Figments of imagination (figments of imagination)
Em    A             G          A
Em    A             G          A
                            Figments of imagination
Em    A             G          A
  (Figments of imagination)
Em    A             C
                      Figments of imagination
Em    A             G          A
   Figments of imagination
Em    A             G          A
   Figments of imagination
Em    A             G          A
   Figments of imagination
Em    A             C
   Figments of imagination
                    Em   
  (Figments of imagination)

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