The Frequency Chords & Tabs
Jets To Brazil
The Frequency
Perfecting Loneliness
2002 Jade Tree Records
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Key: D
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
D xx232
F#m 244222
G 320033
A x02220
Bm x24432
Bb x13331
Intro: D G x4
Verse 1:
F#m G
The terror of the view
F#m
the emptiness
G
of this room
F#m G
always writing
F#m G
a gainst this truth
F#m G F#m
in the way that a painter
G F#m G F#m Em F#m G F#m A
must have a surface to hit
Refrain 1:
F#m
The paint is flying now
G
breaking the silence at
D A
the speed of sound
F#m
Hitting the frequency
G
she's reaching
back at me
D A
Warm and loud
G
Warm and loud
D G x2
Beautiful demons fly out
Verse 2:
F#m G
And we're fighting for our lives
F#m G
to fill the corners up with light
F#m G
Black spell casting
F#m G
a gainst them now
F#m G F#m
in the way that a bullet
G F#m G F#m Em F#m G F#m A
will go until it is stopped
Refrain 2:
F#m
And all the medicine
G
went to my head again
D A
Late last night
F#m
my bed of saccharine
G
my bad amphetamine
D A G
I was lit from within
D G
burning with means and ends
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Chorus 1:
D G A
And the city life is
G
like sugar high
D G A
knocking me out
G D
keeping me wired
G
It's incredible
A G
unsteady chemicals
D G A G
come and go the ebb and flow
A
When the measure of your
G D
work is the measure of your worth
A G
then you better make it work
Post chorus: D G x4
Verse 3:
F#m
There's some people
G
I could name
F#m
but it's not
G
the time or place
F#m G
to split hairs with
F#m G
the guys downstairs
F#m G
They'll get their
F#m G
fair share I'm sure
Bb(hold)
The frequency is
D G
gonna take us there
Chorus 2:
D G
And the city kids
A G
the angry with it kids
D G A
hate everything
G
the first time
D G
It's incredible
A G
the kind of chemicals
D G A G
knocking around in my mind
A G
In the winter of my night I
D
found a desperate kind of light
A G
and nothing comes without a fight
Bridge:
Bm G
You want to know
Bm G
where the good thoughts grow
Bm G
but you ought to know
Bm G(hold)
where all the good thoughts go
Verse 4:
D G
You can't afford
A
to miss a day
G
Call in sick you
D G
better stay that way
A G
Stay that way
Chorus 3:
D G A
And the city life is just some
G D G A
other guy knocking me out
G D G
wasting my time Upper middle class
A G D G A
Infomaniac You will get yours
G A
I will get mine. So get in
G
line, the frequency is fine
Outro: D Bm D Bm G D Bm D Bm G Bb D Bm D Bm G D(hold)