Hey - here's the tab for Armchairs from Armchair Apocrypha. The chord changes are
close but not completely lined up right (this kind of took forever). Its a pretty
song and there are lots more licks and probably a few chord changes, but this should be
at least. Enjoy
Intro Part
(at 0:45)
| E | 0 0 0 |
| B | 0 |
| G | 0 |
| D | 0 |
| A | 2 |
| E | 1 3 1 1h3 |
(at 1:00)
| E | |
| B | 1 1 1 1 |
| G | 0 0 0 0 |
| D | 2 2 2 2 |
| A | 2 3 0 2 0 |
| E | |
C G
C
I dreamed you were a cosmonaut
G
of the space between our chairs
C
And I was a cartographer
G
of the tangles in your hair
F
I sang the song that silence sings
F C
It's the one that everybody knows, everybody knows
The song that silence sings
G
And this is how it goes
(2nd fill)
C
These looms that weave apocrypha
G
they're hanging from a strand
C
The dark and empty rooms were full
G
of incandescent hands
F
The awkward pause
F
The fatal flaw
F
Time, it's a crooked bow
C
Time is a crooked bow
C
In time you need to learn, to love
G
The ebb just like the flow
D7 B5 Em
Grab hold of your bootstraps, and pull like hell
Am D
until gravity feels sorry for you, and lets you go
G C C/B
As if you lack the proper chemicals to know, oh
Am B5 F
the way it felt the last time you let yourself fall this low
C
Time's a crooked bow
F#/D7
Time's a crooked bow
F G C
Time, it's a crooked bow
F G
Fifty-five and three-eighths years later
F G
At the bottom of a gigantic crater
F G
An armchair calls to you
F G
Yeah, this armchair calls to you
C
It says, someday, we'll get back at them all
G
With epoxy and a pair of pliers
C
As ancient sea slugs begin to crawl
G
through the ragweed and barbed wire
C
You didn't write
G
You didn't call
F G
It didn't cross your mind at all
C
Through the waves
G
waves of hay and straw
F G
You couldn't feel a thing at all
F
Fifty-five and three-eighths
G
Time
Fifty-five and three-eighths
Time
Time
F to G repeats, end on F.