The Xx - Basic Space Chords & Tabs

 

Basic Space Chords & Tabs

The Xx Chords & Tabs

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Basic Space Chords

   
Standard Tuning, I'm playing this on ukulele, so let me know if it sounds awful on 
guitar! Listen to the song for strumming melody, I just do the downstroke twice.

Bb Bb Bb Bb F F F F

Bb                Bb
Neck, chest, waist to floor
F                    F
Easy to take, you could take me in fours
Bb                         Bb
Make me a deal, a day a piece
F                    F
Take it all, just stay a week


Bb                                   Bb
I'll take you in pieces, we can take it all apart
F                                     F
I've suffered shipwrecks right from the start
Bb                              Bb
I've been underwater, breathing out and in
F                                             F
I think I'm losing where you end and I begin

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Eb                       Bb
Basic space, open air
Eb                                                        Bb
Don't look away, when there's nothing there


Eb
I'm setting us in stone
Bb
Piece by piece, before I'm alone
Eb
Air tight, before we break
Bb
Keep it in, keep us safe


Eb
It's a pool of boiling wax I'm getting in
         Bb
Let it set got to seal this in,
Eb
Can't adjust, Can't relearn
           Bb
Got to keep what I have, preserve


Eb                        Bb
Basic space, open air
Eb                                                        Bb
Don't look away, when there's nothing there


Bb
Hot wax has left me with a shine
F
Wouldn't know if I'd been left behind
Bb                 F
Second skin, second skin


Bb                     F
I can't let it out, I still let you in
Bb                     F
I can't let it out, I still let you in