E|----0------0------0---------------|

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B|---------------------------0------|

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G|--------------------------0-------|

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D|-------------------------0--------|

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A|------------------------2---------|

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E|-1-----3------1------1h3----------|

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E|--------------------------------------|

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B|---------1-------1-------1-------1----|

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G|--------0-------0-------0-------0-----|

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D|-------2-------2-------2-------2------|

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A|2---3-------0-------2-------0---------|

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E|--------------------------------------|

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I dreamed you were a cosmonaut
of the space between our chairs
And I was a cartographer
of the tangles in your hair

I sang the song that silence sings
It’s the one that everybody knows, everybody knows

The song that silence sings
And this is how it goes

(2nd fill)

These looms that weave apocrypha
they’re hanging from a strand
The dark and empty rooms were full
of incandescent hands

The awkward pause
The fatal flaw
Time, it’s a crooked bow
Time is a crooked bow

In time you need to learn, to love
The ebb just like the flow
Grab hold of your bootstraps, and pull like hell
until gravity feels sorry for you, and lets you go
As if you lack the proper chemicals to know, [C/B]oh
the way it felt the last time you let yourself fall this low

Time’s a crooked bow
Time’s a crooked[F#/D7] bow
Time, it’s a crooked bow

Fifty-five and three-eighths years later
At the bottom of a gigantic crater
An armchair calls to you
Yeah, this armchair calls to you
It says, someday, we’ll get back at them all
With epoxy and a pair of pliers
As ancient sea slugs begin to crawl
through the ragweed and barbed wire

You didn’t write
You didn’t call
It didn’t cross your mind at all
Through the waves
waves of hay and straw
You couldn’t feel a thing at all
Fifty-five and three-eighths
Time
Fifty-five and three-eighths
Time
Time

F to G repeats, end on F.

Here is simple yet gorgeous tune from Andrew Bird. This tab is based heavily on his
2007 performance at the La Maroquinerie in Paris, France. This is only a guideline. He
it differently every time.

Useful Chords

e|--0---0----0-----1---2---0-----3-----0--|
B|--2---0----3-----3---3---3-----3-----0--|
G|--2---2----2-----2---2---2-----2-----1--|
D|--2---2----2-----0---0---0-----0-----2--|
A|--0---0----0-------------------------2--|
E|-------------------------------------0--|

Intro: He starts out looping a bunch of violin ascensions and descensions in A. Here is
first one he plays:

e|----5--4------------|
B|----------7---------|
G|-------------5------|
D|--------------------|
A|--------------------|
E|--------------------|

Then he switches to guitar and plays this:

|: A Dm A 😐 A Dm E

e|-------------1---------------------------1----0---|
B|------------3------2--------------------2-----0---|
G|-----------2------2--------------------3------1---|
D|---------0-------2--------------------0-------2---|
A|-0-0-0-0--------0-----------0-0-0-0-0---------2---|
E|----------------------------------------------0---|

At this point Andrew strums an A before starting to sing. This riff is played over the
verse, to the same time of the lyrics.

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---4--2--4?2h4p4?0----4--2--4--2--4--2--4--2--4--2--4--2--4--2--0--|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Turnstiles on mezzanine
Jet ways and Dramamine fiends and x-ray machines
You were hurling through space
G-Forces twisting your face
Breeding superstition
A fatal premonition

You know you?ve got to envision
The fiery crash

Oh, close your eyes and you wake up
Face stuck to a vinyl settee
Oh, the line was starting to break up
Just as you were starting to say

e|--------------------------|
B|--------------------------|
G|--------------------------|
D|--------------------------|
A|--4--2--4--2--0--4--2--0--|
E|--------------------------|

Something, apropos, I don?t know. (Riff played to same time as lyrics)

Then the musical break, the chords are: A D A E D A. Listen to the recording for time.

Play the first two lines using the same riff from the first verse.

Beige tiles and magazines
Lou Dobbs and the CNN team on every monitor screen
You were caught in the crossfire
Where every human face has you reaching for your mace
So it’s kind of an imposition … fatal premonition

To save our lives you’ve got to envision
To save all our lives you’ve got to envision
Well to save all our lives you’ve got to envision … the fiery crash

The Dm > A parts are played with the same picking pattern as the intro.

It’s just a formality
Why must I explain?
Just a nod to mortality
Before you get on … before you get on a plane

Oh, close your eyes and you wake up
Face stuck to a vinyl settee
Oh, the line was starting to break up
What was that you were going to say?

At any time during the song, you can use the Dsus?s and Asus?s to supplement any normal
or A. I hope this is help and I?m very sure it?s accurate. Please email me at
or PM with any questions or problems, and please comment.
Peace
Zach