Tabbed by: Cory Prusha – interjection@gmail.com
Please give me your comments and corrections!

Chords:

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You look so neat
Everyday is your birthday
You’re such a treat
I’m just a drip in your faucet

Before the party’s over
Before the highway road ends
Before the day begins
There’s something I need to say

There’s no on else
There is no one quite so perfect
When you’re foreign Bound
I am the coin in your pocket

Just wait for me the night through
Like I do for you
There’s no one left to cry boo hoo
Play it through ok ok ok ok oh

[A/A7]
[A/A7]
[A/A7]
[A/A7]
You’re not like me
It seems that people stick like flies to you
And my mystery
Is just that I’ve no one to cling to

I think it’s the Chinese New Year
Of this I’m fairly clear
And what better way to celebrate
Than run away with little boy blue?

Come along now now now now
Don’t think on an offer that you can’t refuse
Yesterday’s not quite the same let’s make it plain
There are things that I can do

[A/A7/A]
[A/A7/A]

Some day we’re going to make it all right

It is a radio tells me so

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0:49 0:56

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1:22

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1:58 2:06

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2:43

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3:00 (repeats) 3:28 (repeats)

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Tabbed by: Dr. Dra
Send comments, corrections etc. to oplnospam@hotmail.co.uk (remove nothing)

Great song, I wonder why it hasn’t been posted before..

This tab has only guitar 1 (Alec Ounsworth). Guitar 2 is playing something else, which
actually makes it sound like there are 4 chords in the verses instead of just D and G.

I know there are some errors and I don’t think all the chords are right
(e.g. the first bridge). This should get you started anyway.

I transcribed this from the performance in Conan O’Brien show 12/16/2005.

Chords used:
D: xx0232
G: 320003
Bm: x24432
A: x02220
Asus4: x02230
Dsus2: x57755
Bmaj: x7765x
Gmaj: x5543x
Amaj: x7765x
D2: x57775
G2: 355433
Bm2: 799777
A2: 577655

intro: D, G (4x)

verse 1:
Blue, you radiant blue I don’t know how you can stand next to me
You you talk like a noose and only confuse my perplexity

Now that I’m so sad and not quite right
I could dance all night
I could dance all night

verse 2:
Shake your rattle-snake skin and become a part of society
Wait on down the highway to see how far I’ll come a-run a-run run running
All that we have salvaged from the fire
was a waste of time
What a waste of time

Bm, A Asus4 A, G, A Asus4 A

Bridge 1 (pick):

Should I trust all the rust that’s on TV (should I trust all the rust that’s on TV)
I guess with some distase I disagree (with some distase I disagree)
With quite a fashionable dispassion for the dispossessed under-stressed (aah, ooaah)
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme (aah, aah)
And I don’t care if you don’t like or just don’t see that

Verse 3:
Now that we’ve fattened the cow and set out to plow unknown enemies
”Wow!” Shouts the startled crowd “How now did you see what I did see?”
The ravaged cabbage drifts on dark red skies
And it looks so nice
Gee it looks so nice

Bridge 2 (pick):
Shout just let it on out confusion becomes a philosophy
Down we’re reaching the town where we don’t have to stand around and look over our shoulders
(strum:)
Hell, I never knew was what we made it lets just take it slow
in this home on ice
in this home on ice
in this home on ice
in this home on-iiiieeee

outro:
Bm, A Asus4 A, G, A Asus4 A
D, G, D, G, Bm, A Asus4 A, G, A Asus4 A, D

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(E) (D) (B) (C#) (A) – for readability

Chords are staggered – the root note is always played before the strum

Now that you’re here and see
Everyone of us seem to take the wrong way home
Now that you’re safe with me
Trying to get a handle on the neighbor’s lawn

(0:52)

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We’re safe and sound

So safe for now
We’re safe and sound
So safe for now
We’re safe and sound

So safe for now
We’re safe and sound

So safe for now

How does it taste to be swinging away for the night?

Doctor said son you should carry a gun (for to) be alright…
But it’s the way that you talk and it’s the way that you move around
Gravity’s one thing and
Gravity’s something, but

How’s about coming down?
There’s a time and place in which to be alone
(but lately it just don’t seem so alluring)
You’re no good not around
Your elevator skipping all me best-dressed floors

We’re safe and sound

So safe for now
We’re safe and sound

So safe for now
We’re safe and sound

So safe for now
We’re safe and sound

So safe for now

E..D..B
E..D..B

Weird but you’re back talking

same chords for 2nd verse:

Did you wander
as my voice went from station to station to state?
Some loud thunder
sometimes there’s no telling if we’re ok
there are buildings up for sale on the other side of town
which are falling down for people
to stand in their place;
to try to make something great

stay on E chord and go thru the chorus:

That’s just a part of the story
And it could be maybe something complete someday
At the end of the quarry
yes that was me digging holes for all the world to see
a cannonball as big as the ocean could come from the sky
and slap us all on the teeth
But there’s always more unless I’m mistaken
tell me when do mouths close
and people gracefully retreat

3rd verse just like the other two:

New York calling
at the bottom of the ocean city gritting its teeth
but there’s no telling
from the telepathic Mrs. Crying on live TV
Whoah the misanthropic topical arrangement
that is met with a shark bite by the terminal patient
That’s me
Am I late?

Final chorus with same advice as before:

That’s the state of my story
and it may be one day something complete
At the end of the quarry
I have dug a hole for all the world to see
A cannonball as big as the ocean could come from the sky
and slap us all on the feet
but there’s always mre unless I’m mistaken
Tell me when do mouths close
and people gracefully retreat?

TABBED FOR YOU BY YOUR FRIEND PANILSON

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Chords between 1:21 and 2:02, again between 2:44 and 3:03