Under The Lampposts Chords & Tabs
Under The Lampposts Chords
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Under The Lampposts - Chewing on Tinfoil
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Tabbed by: Woody
Email: tabs@andrewgoodricke.com
This is my first tab, I think it's pretty close.
Thanks to SwampmanCory for posting the chords (http://goo.gl/SL5oe) via Chewing On Tinfoil.
Tuning: EADGBe
Dm xx0231
F xx1123
C x32010
Bb x13331
A x02220
Dm
And so they say, so they say, so they say
F
"But you won't understand the
C
workings of this world with your
Bb
head buried in the sand."
Dm
And so I say, so I say, so I say
F
"But there's so much to do? And the
C
graveness of the situation
Bb
is shadowed by my ineptitude."
F C
There's nothing like the moon to hide the sun,
Dm Bb
we're forced to use the lamp-post to guide us home.
F C
We thought we'd last forever, we were wrong. We walk home through
Dm Bb F C
the night time singing songs, 'cause there's no forever.
Dm Bb F C Dm Bb C
There's no forever, There's no forever, there's no forever.
Dm F
Trust the fact that everything is relative, trust the fact that nobody will ever say: 'fine.
C Bb C
The brain is all there is to the mind.' But life is not a waste of your time.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/c/chewing_on_tinfoil/under_the_lampposts_crd.html ]
Dm
This is no lament, it's suspension of belief, it's analyzing everything to justify a means.
F
"KEEP GOD OUT OF FIRHOUSE." was written down by my house.
C
Ten foot letters on a concrete wall. Did the priest mind? Well not at all.
Bb
If he has to pick and choose well then his ethics are his.
F C Dm Bb
There's nothing like your brain to spoil the fun, but you must keep living until you're done.
F C Dm Bb F C
This was all in effort to feel alive. If anybody sings this into the night. It'll live forever.
Dm Bb F C Dm Bb
It'll live forever, It'll live forever, It'll live forever.
F A
Etch my name in a tree so passers-by are aware that I once lived a life without a care.
Dm Bb
A single set of footprints just to prove that I was there.
F A
Well you're lookin' at me while I'm lookin' at you. When will you realise,
Dm Bb F C
son, you're singing to an empty room?
Dm Bb F C Dm Bb F C Dm Bb F C F
An empty room, An empty room, An empty room.
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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