Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)
Intro:
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
Verse:
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
A Bm A D Dm A D Dm Dm
'Its Kill Or Be...'
Bm C#m D
Break:
A Bm A D Dm A E
Verse:
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
A Bm A D Dm A D Dm Dm
'Do You Agree...'
Bm C#m D
Outro:
A Bm A Bm
D Dm D Dm
D D E Dm
Four Winds
Capo 3rd fret
Intro: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C x4
Em C
Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
G Am
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
G Am
His body's decomposing in containers tonight
C
In an abandoned building where
Em C
A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl
G Am
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
G Am
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
C
Four winds blowing through her hair
Am D Am D
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
C G C G
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
Am
She caves
Interlude: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C
Em C
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qu'ran is mute
G Am
If you'd burn them all together you'd get close to the truth still
G Am
They're pouring over sanskrit on the ivy league moons
C
While shadows lengthen in the sun
Em C
Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times
G Am
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
G Am
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
C
Four winds, cry until it comes
Am D
And it's the song of man
Am D
Slouching towards Bethlehem
C G C G
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
Am D
It breaks, it breaks, (it breaks)
Interlude: Em, C, Em, C, Em, C, D
Em C
Well, I went back, I rent a Cadillac, a company jet
G Am
Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps
G Am
All the way to Cassadega to commune with the dead
C
They said, "You'd better look alive"
Em C
And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
G Am
In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east
G Am
I buried my ballast, I made my peace
C
With four winds, levelling the pines
Am D Am D
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
C G C G
She just can't remain with all that outer space
Am D Am D
She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves.
End on: Em
If The Brakeman Turns My Way
Capo 4th fret
G C G
When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird
G C D
Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse
Em D G D C
All your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse
Em C Em C
Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt
Em D C D G
Better find yourself a place to level out
Em, D
G C G
Got a cricket for a conscience always looks the other way
G C D
A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret
Em D G D C
Hey, where have all the dancers gone? Now the music doesn't play
Em C Em C
Tried to listen to the river but you couldn't shut your mouth
Em D C D G
Better take a little time to level out
C G
I never thought of running
C D
My feet just led the way
G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G D
Cars are switched out in the crazy rain
G C
I could meet you any place
D C D G
If the Brakeman turns my way
Em, D
G C G
All this automatic writing I have tried to understand
G C D
From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand
Em D G D C
It's an infinite coincidence but it doesn't form a plan
Em C Em C
So I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South
Em D C D G
Gonna find myself somewhere to level out
Em, D
G C G
Are your brothels full, Oh Babylon, with merry Middlemen?
G C D
Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens
Em D G D C
All this death must need a counterweight always someone born again
Em C Em C
First a mother bathes her child then the other way around
Em D C D G
The Scales always find a way to level out
C G
I tried to pass for nothing
C D
But my dreams gave me away
G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G D
People snuffed out in the brutal rain
G C
I could live to any age
D C D G
If the Brakeman turns my way
Am D7
It is an old world it's hard to remember
G C
Like a dime store mystery
Am D7
I'm a repeat first time offender
C D (G)
Who has rewritten history
G
Mixed up tea leaves
C
Phantom Pain
G D
Fuzzy logic in the crazy rain
G D
Getting better every day
D C D G
If the Brakeman turns my way
G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G D
Cars are switched out in the blinding rain
G C
He'll be smiling as he seals my fate
D C D G
When the Brakeman turns my way
Hot Knives
Capo 2nd fret
Intro: G G G C x 4
G G G C G G G C
The Wife forgave the Mistress for she only entertained
G G G C G G G C
The pain was gone the instant she cleared her throat to speak her name
Em C
Said, "Both of us must suffer from the same unending ache"
G G G C x2
G G G C G G G C
The world was not of interest though her days were never dull
G G G C G G G C
Her bed beneath a crucifix on guests performing miracles
Em C G G G C x2
With the Son of God just hanging like a common criminal
Am C G G G C x2
When I do wrong I am with God, she thought
Am C G G G C x2
When I feel lost I am not at all
Bm
So give me Black Light (Give Give me)
C
So give me Hot Knives (Deep Clean sleep)
Am D
On a dance floor no one tells time (There is no time)
Am C G G G C x2
Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?
Am C G G G C x2
I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up
G G G C G G G C
She went to see a Mystic who made medicine from rain
G G G C G G G C
And gave up her existence to feel everything, dream others' dreams
Em C G G G C x2
Bid farewell to her family with one ecstatic wave (Please take care I love you all)
Am C G G G C x2
Out the window as the car rolled away
Am C G G G C x2
She just vanished into a thick mist of change
Bm
So let us rejoice (Let's Rejoice!)
C
In all this Pink Noise (Out Pink Noise!)
Am D
An oscillation that we can pin point (We're right here!)
Am C x5
Am C D
End On: G
Make a Plan To Love Me
Capo 2nd Fret
Chords
G 320033
D xx0232
Am 002210
Em 022000
G2 540055
G3 760077
G4 870077
Always hit G4 quickly, it's not played as long as any of the other chords
Intro:
G D G D Am D Am D G G2 G3 G4
G D G
I heard you're scheming new pyramids
G D Am
Another big idea to get you rich
Am D Am
(Make a Plan to love me)
Am D G
Make a plan to love me sometime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
G D G
You said you had your foot in the door
G D Am
You buy and then you sell, you buy some more
Am D Am
(Make a Plan to love me)
Am D G
Make a plan to love me sometime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
Em
Life is too short
Em
Death doesn't ask
C G
It don't owe you that
Em
Some things you lose
Em
You don't get back
C D
So just know what you have
Am D G
And make a plan to love me sometime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
G D G D
Am G Am G
G G2 G3 G4 G
G D G
First you want to ride off into the sun
G D Am
Then you want to shoot straight to the moon
Am D Am
(Make a Plan to love me)
Am D G
Make a plan to love me sometime soon
G D G
When you are young the world is a ferris wheel
G D Am
I know we will grow old it is lovely, still
Am D G
Make a plan to love me sometime soon
Em
Life is too short
Em
To be a fool
C G
I don't owe you that
Em
Do what you feel
Em
Whatever is cool
C D
But I just have to ask
Am D
Will you make a plan to love me?
Am D
Will you make a plan to love me?
Am D G
Will you make a plan to love me sometime soon?
G G2 G3 G4 G
Soul Singer In The Session Band
Capo 1st fret
C F C C F G C F C F G F G C
C F C
See the soul singer in the session band
C F G
Shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand
C F C
Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan
F G F G C
For the soul singer in the session band
(This chord progression is constant. So just keep playing it!)
Now a red carpet bagger makes a blackberry call
To the plastic pirhana in the city of salt
Wasted wheat paste campaign post no bills on the wall
You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault
See the soul singer in the session band
Shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand
Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan
For the soul singer in the session band
I had a lengthy discussion about the power of myth
With a postmodern author who didn't exist
In this fictitious world, our reality twists
I was a hopeless romantic, now I'm just turning tricks
Just like that soul singer in the session band
Shredded confetti beneath the microphone stand
Saw the conflicts of interest, slipping cash in the hand
Of the soul singer in the session band
Now his room is on fire since he painted it red
There's a stranger, silk sequins at the foot of the bed
He's been to weddings and funerals, but he still never wept
Now sorrow is pleasure when you want it instead
Just like our soul singer in the session band
Wailed like an infant atop a white baby grand
We'll need every sand bag and every man
To save the soul singer in the session band
C F C C F G C F C F G F G C
Headlights or taillights, it's a flip of a coin
I've been coming and going since the day I was born
And I followed the bread crumbs but I never got home
I grew old in an instant, now I'm all on my own
Just like that soul singer in the session band
Shredded to nothing beneath the microphone stand
Saw the wave of the future through the crack of the dam
Drowned the soul singer in the session band
F G F G C
Bless the soul singer in the session band
classic Cars
Capo 2nd fret
intro: G x4
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bright_eyes/cassadaga_crd.html ]
D G
She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts
Am B G
Said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars
D G
So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar
D Am D
To think of them all alone in the dark
D G
So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen
Am B G
She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean
D G
Gave me anything I wanted, Oh the generosity
D Am D
I took all that I could, it was free
D G
Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds just splattered paint
Am B G
It’s a room I’m renovating; it’s a name I gotta change
D G
If I get out of California I’m going back to my home state
D Am D
To tell them all that I made a mistake
G
And I keep looking for that blindfold faith
Am
Lighting candles to a cynical saint
D Am B G
Who wants the last laugh at the fly trapped in the windowsill tape
Am
You can go right out of your mind trying to escape
D Am B G
From the panicked paradox of day to day
D Am B G
If you can’t understand something then it’s best to be afraid
D G
The whole world it loves you if you’re a chic chameleon
Am B G
Intersecting circles she could hang with anyone
D G
But when conducting business she would lie about where she’s from
D Am D
Saying, "Life is how it is not how it was"
D G
I learned to listen felt like I was back at school
Am B G
She’d talk forever about the phases of the moon
D G
Saying, "Everything is a cycle, you’ve got to let it come to you
D Am D
And when it does, you will know what to do"
D G
Without even knowing I guess I took up her advice
Am B G
Painted her front door it seemed a suitable goodbye
D G
It’s not that often but I think of her sometimes
D Am D
Just something quaint, a couple ships in the night
G
And they keep moving at a glacial pace
Am
Turning circles in a memory maze
D Am B G
I made a new cast of the death mask that’s gonna cover my face
Am
I had to change the combination to the safe
D Am B G
Hide it all behind a wall let people wait
Am D B G
And never trust a heart that is so bent it can’t break
Middleman
Capo 4th fret
Chords
F#m? x42200
F#m2? x02200
F#m7 x22400
G 320033
Bm x24332
C x32010
Intro
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
I traveled though the atmosphere
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
as a wall of feedback climbed
F#m2? F#m7
The pegs were gold,
F#m2? F#m7
the band was old,
F#m2?
they played,
F#m2? F#m?
in half time
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
Now every dream gets whittled down
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
just like every fool gets wise
F#m2? F#m7
You will never reap
F#m2? F#m7
of any seed
F#m2?
deprived
F#m2?
of sunlight
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
G Bm
So I have become the Middleman
G Bm
The gray areas are mine
C F G Bm
The in-between, the absentee
F#m2?
Is a beautiful disguise
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
etc.
Cleanse Song
Chords
D xx0232
D7 xx0212
G 320033
A 002222
F# 133211
Verse:
D D7 G D
Hear the chimes did you know that the wind when it blows
G D A
it is older than Rome, and all of this sorrow
D D7 G D
D
See the new Pyramids down in old Manhattan from the roof of a friend
A
I watched an empire ending
F# D G
Heard it loud and long the rivers song time marching on
A
to a mad mans drum
Filler:
D D7 G A
D D7 G A
Chorus:
F# A
On a detox loft over glendale park over sidewalk chalk some rope red startle
G F#
So I'm up when I sleep on an Oxnard Beach with a fever of dreams that scare
me sober
A
Into saltless dinner
No One Would Riot For Less
Intro: Bm D A
The picking pattern is easy:
Bm x4 D x4 A x4
E-------2-------------2-------------5--------|
B---3-----3---3---3-----3---2---5-----5---5--|
G-----------4-------------2-------------6----|
D-----4-------------0-------------7----------|
A-2---------------------------7--------------|
E--------------------------------------------|
Bm
Death may come, invisible
D
Or in a holy wall of fire
A
In the breath between the markers
Bm
On some black I-80 mile
Bm
From the madness of the governments
D
To the vengeance of the sea
A
Everything is eclipsed
Bm
By the shape of destiny
A
So love me now
Bm
Hell is coming
A
Could you do it now?
Bm
Hell is here
D
Do you see the sterile soil
Bm
Poisoned sky
A
Yellow water
G
The final scraps of life
Bm A
Bringing new tears
Instrumental: Bm G A x2
D Bm
Wake, baby, wake
G
Leave that blanket around you
A
There's no where we're safe
D Bm
I'm leaving this place
G
But there's nothing
A
I'm planning to take
Bm
Just you
A
Just you
G
Just you
Then finish with F# Bm
Coat Check Dream Song???
I Must Belong Somewhere
Capo 3rd fret
Intro: C G Am F G
C G Am F
C G Am F G
Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall
C G Am F G
Leave the death ledger under city hall
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today
C G Am F G
Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet
C G Am F G
Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Let the sideways rain and the crooked street remain
C G Am F G
Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel
C G Am F G
Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today
C G Am F G
Just leave the sad guitar in its hardshell case
C G Am F G
Leave the worried look on your lover's face
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain
Am F
Everything it must belong somewhere
Am F G
A train off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs
Am G C F
Everything it must belong somewhere
G
I know that now, that is why I'm staying here
C G Am F G
C G Am F
C G Am F G
Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell
C G Am F G
Leave the widower in his private hell
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Leave the liberty in that broken bell today
C G Am F G
Leave the epic poem on its yellowed page
C G Am F G
Leave the gray macaw in its covered cage
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Let the traveling band on the interstate remain
Am F
Everything it must belong somewhere
Am F G
Sound stage in California, televisions in Times Square
Am G C F
Everything it must belong somewhere
G Am
I know that now that is why I'm staying here
F G
Yeah, I know that now, that is why I'm staying here
C G Am F G
C G Am F
C G Am F G
Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed
C G Am F G
Leave the garden tools in that rusted shed
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today
C G Am F G
Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel
C G Am F G
Leave the homeless man in that cardboard cell
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Let the painted horse on the carousel remain
Am F
Everything it must belong somewhere
Am F G
Just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair
Am G C F
Everything it must belong somewhere
G Am
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
F G C
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
Em Am
In truth the forest hears each sound
F G
Each blade of grass as it lies down
Em Am
The world requires no audience
F Fm
No witnesses, no witnesses
C G Am F G
C G Am F
C G Am F G
Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool
C G Am F G
Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today
C G Am F G
Leave the novelist in his daydream tune
C G Am F G
Leave the scientist in his Rubik's cube
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Let the true genius in the padded room remain
C G Am F G
Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow
C G Am F G
Leave the slot machines on the riverboat
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today
C G Am F G
Leave the hot bright trash in the shopping malls
C G Am F G
Leave the hawks of war in their capitol
Am G C F G C G Am F G
Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain
Am F
Everything it must belong somewhere
Am F G
They locked the Devil in the basement, threw God up into the air
Am G C F
Everything it must belong somewhere
G Am
And you know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here
F G Am E F
You know it's true, why don't you leave me here?
Lime Tree
G Bm
I keep floating down the river but the ocean never comes
G C
Since the operation I heard you're breathing just for one
Am D7
Now everything is imaginary, especially what you love
Am C G
You left another message said it's done, It's done
G Bm
When I hear beautiful music it's always from another time
G C
Old friends I never visit, I remember what they're like
Am D7
Standing on a doorstep full of nervous butterflies
Am C G
Waiting to be asked to come inside Just come inside
Am D7
But I keep go-o-o-o-oing out
Bm Am C
I can't sleep next to a stranger when I'm coming down
B7 C G
It's 8 a.m. my heart is beating too loud, Too loud
D7 Am B7
C
Don't be-e-e-e so ama-a-a-azing or I'll miss you too much
B7 C
I felt something that I had never touched
G Bm
Everything gets smaller now the further that I go
G C
Towards the mouth and the reunion of the Known and the Unknown
Am D7
Consider yourself lucky if you think of it as home
Am
G
You can move mountains with your misery if you don't, If you don't
G Bm
It comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two
G C
Under the leaves of that old Lime Tree I stood examining the fruit
Am D7
Some were ripe and some were rotten, I felt nauseous with the truth
Am C G
There will never be a time more opportune
Am D7
So I just won't be late
Bm Am C
The window closes, shock rolls over in a tidal wave
B7 C G
And all the color drains out of the frame
D7 Am B7 C
So pleased with a daydream that now living is no good
B7 C
I took off my shoes and walked into the woods
B7 C G
I felt lost and found with every step I took
