Standard (EADGBE)
Tar
The roofs
Of the houses
That are leakin'
The religions
Of who live there
And are leavin'
Their infidelities
At the door
When they come in.
Tar
The peaks
Of the mountains
That are singin'
The beliefs
Of who live there
And are leavin'
Their impurities
On their faces
When they're wasted.
02 - Shifty Lies
In between
Chivalry of the armor-clad
Lies a focus in I
Now you're singin'
It takes too long to remind you of your hearts
You're way behind the county line
You must have fallen off somewhere sometime
Now you're here delivering your
Shifty lies and senseless vision
Overflow like frozen rivers
Stand in line, they watch the time
You're cattled up and weeks behind
How long, how long
Until we reach the bottom of the lake?
Then we'll see
Murky water visions
Misleading us again
There you are delivering your
Shifty lies and senseless visions
Overflow like frozen rivers
Stand in line, you watch the time
You're cattled up and week behind
How long, how long until we reach the bottom of the
Shifty lies and senseless visions
Overflow like frozen rivers
Stand in line, you watch the time
You're cattled up and weeks behind
How long, how long until we reach the bottom of the lake?
til fade.
03 - Shoveling Sons
Shoveling sons keeping us awake
Into the night's misfortunes we fade
Giving the land's only fair eye
Shoveling sons are marching away
And you never will be confused by the few who ride down
The only road paved by dead souls
Shoveling sons keeping good time
Digging the holes where others reside
Fortunate sons keeping us awake
Into the night's misgivings we fade
And you never will be confused by the few who ride down
The only road paved by dead souls
And they never will credit you on the few times you ride
The only road worth your time
Shoveling sons...
Shoveling sons...
Shoveling sons...
And you never will be confused by the few who ride down
The only road paved by dead souls
And you never will be confused by the few who ride down
The only road paved by dead souls
Shoveling sons...
Shoveling sons...
04 - All the Ghosts
[Note: this song is mostly piano with light electric guitar.
The piano would be too hard to tab exactly for guitar,
so these chords are not exact voicings, but just the basics.]
Have you been paid
To bring us down
against our will again?
And how'd you follow us?
And how'd you see?
Wishing's lost to the touch
To see your eyes are painted shut
And we won't come clean.
Are you too late
To serve again a locked out salary?
Just buy me something.
I'll pay you later for these things.
We'll be cleared from your list
And all the ghosts who won't be missed
Won't come clean
Won't come clean
05 - Find the Four
Find the hour to tell me places I have never been
And educate me of all things lost through sleep and wasted time
Out past the break and the slips
A row of foreign ships
Our amnesty lies
Keep breathing lines from the books and sleep with your pants on
Hold allegiance 'til your contract's up, your time is out
Too real your head is a fog
And all that was done
Is dead on the run
Keep breathing page after page
Hire me today
Or throw me in jail
Outro
06 - You're on an Island
[Note: for the D7 to G7 transitions in the verses, you're only going to play the top
couple strings, not the full chords.]
Intro
I listened too many times
To phone calls on your private line
And now you're loud and clear
Now alternate between F and FMaj7,
and C and CMaj7 until you end on E.
Your island suited us fine
Your contact was better than mine
With all our missions clear
To take you out was never made too clear
It was never made too clear
La da da da da da da dum
Da da da da da da da dum
Da da da da da da da dum
Da da da da da da da dum
07 - The Pilgrim
[Note: all major chords are barred]
+ ( augmented) = [X2544X]
Intro
Why'd you have to let
The pilgrim out of his cage?
Why'd you have to let
The pilgrim out of his cage?
Ooohhhh...
Ooohhhh...
Ooohhhh...
Ooohhhh...
Why'd you have to let
The pilgrim go free?
Why'd you have to be
Responsible?
Ooohhhh...
Why'd you have to let
the pilgrim out of his cage?
Aaahhhh...
Aaahhhh...
08 - You've Been Hired
You've been hired for their dirty work
I can see it in your eyes
So long for now
I will always be true to you
For a while you'll have to kill for food
Turn off all your sensors most of all
and relinquish your control
You're dead for now
By the rocks we throw you will be clear to hear
All the fates will be calling you
By the time you're here
All will be gone
All these changes and bank statements
They must make you kind of nervous
09 - To Be Free Again
Demons once again come down
To shed their night on you
Sacred light
Burn through the beast within
And you'll be free to run again
You'll be free again
Keep your story please
But throw away your lies
Priests of light
Burn down the evil land
You still have time to make it alright
To be free again
10 - Five Miles
Five miles of unused highway
Three flares to bring you my way
Too late the kitchen's closed
We'll have to sleep forever now
Thin lines are paint between us
Outside the symphony of
Hellbound fortune-driven
Soldiers out on holiday
As you walk away again
A dynasty of broken feet give in
Four wakeless mornings beat the sun down
On the chaplain's head
And as he cues for you to sing
Rhapsody you promised would bring
All chapel-beaten soldiers down
Upon their knees again
Wake up the town to bring lost parodies of
Faceless demons scattering away
On borrowed time the
clock will unwind
Wake up the town to give us rhapsodies of
Timeless rhythm scattering away
As formless creatures lift
The time from every working day
[til end]
11 - Open Ocean Sailing
You don't know me so you won't pay me anymore
And you won't hire me to come and clean your floor
But let me take you down to the lake so we can get paid
one more time around
And your technology has a fade in its life expectancy
And only one thing could release you from your misery
Fight the ways of a slow production on a field day
Fight the ways of a slow production day
Until you're real I'll fall into your arms of hatred and harm
Until you're safe I'll fall into those places you've been running from so far
And you won't feed me angry pages anymore
The salted windows you will view me from no more
But let me turn you down so the rest of us could hear
one more time around
And your technology has a fade in its life expectancy
And only one thing could release you from your misery
Fight the ways of a slow production on a field day
Fight the ways of a slow production day
12 - Gas Station Downs
[Note: Okay, so they get a little tricky here with us. This was by far the hardest song to figure out,
and I'd welcome any corrections, especially to the "Have fun done" part. I'm pretty sure I got it,
though. The B7add4 and D9(no3)/A are outlined rather than strummed, so it's pretty easy to hear the
individual notes.]
B7add4 = [X2120X]
(no3)/ = [X00210]
Organ intro [transposed for guitar]:
walk to
Show your face 'round here again
We'll have to burn the stations down
One by one
It's too bad your face
reveals the state you'll be living in
And in the time
It takes you to run
From end to end, you'll be dead again
Have fun done
You're the same in the photograph
So keep your hands tied up
You're the type everyone tries
to have and run their watches by
Only time ain't what they need
Half contained
With the land
Half with the cell again
And if it made you think like others do
Come a long way to make you think like them