Words and Music by Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar from the Album “One Fast Move or I’m Gone”

Em
Breathe our iodine
Filthy your drink
Faint at feet wet drop your profile
Move it in the sea

Burn in [ Asus2 ] salt [ G ]
With slow most [ Em ]change
One grain of [ Asus2 ] sand [ G ]
3 thousand [ Em ]worlds of glee

Em Riff Em Riff

Em
Murdering of time
For me for us the sea
Lusty cracks of lip feed wave
Nothing but old age
Burn in [ Asus2 ] salt [ G ]
With slow most [ Em ]change
One grain of [ Asus2 ] sand [ G ]
3 thousand [ Em ]worlds of glee

Em Riff Em Riff

Em
Drop your profile
Move it in the sea
No crack at eternity
For me for us the sea
Burn in [ Asus2 ] salt [ G ]
With slow most [ Em ]change
One grain of [ Asus2 ] sand [ G ]
3 thousand [ Em ]worlds of glee

Em Riff Em Riff

Em
Drop your profile
Not to mention me
Aeons with cigar-a-mouth
Move it in the sea
Burn in [ Asus2 ] salt [ G ]
With slow most [ Em ]change
One grain of [ Asus2 ] sand [ G ]
3 thousand [ Em ]worlds of glee

Em Riff Em Riff

Notes:

Em is a regular Em but hammering on/off the 4th fret of the 6th string (G#) with your
in time with the rhythm. With this chord, you’re only strumming the E and A strings to
that nice crunchy sound. A full Em will sound whack.

For the Asus2 chord, only strum the D, G and B strings. Again, a full chord whack.

The riff is a little walk down to Em. You play this riff and then right back into
the modified Em.

D—2–0——-|
A———2—-|
E————0-|

Words and music by Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard from the album One Fast Move Or Im Gone

Capo 2,

Am G D – intro and verse chords

The church is blowing a sad windblown Kathleen
On the bells of the skid row slums
I wake up goopy and woebegone
At the Mars Hotel on 4th and Howard

Do you remember dancing girls in St. Louis
Stan Getz on the hi-fi under midnight kitchen bulbs
We all agree its too big to keep up with
That were surrounded by lifethat well
Never understand it
[ Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/jay_farrar/san_francisco_crd.html ]
[ Am ] The great magical city of the [ E ] Gandharvas [ F ]
Of San Francis [ E ] co [ Dm ] [ Am ]

Where is the writer who could bring you
Sobbing through the bed fucking bed cribs
Of the moon to see it all even unto
Some robbery of the heart at dawn
When no one cares

Im lost among strange agitators of the heart
We center it all by swigging from the bottle
All for two sticks of loco weed
That grows by itself in Texas because god wanted it

[ Am ] The great magical city of the [ E ] Gandharvas [ F ]
Of San Francis [ E ] co [ Dm ] [ Am ]

Freak out on harmonica between the verses and at the end.

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard — ?Big Sur?
From the album ?One Fast Move or I?m Gone?

Tabs by Tim Prizer (tim_prizer@yahoo.com)

Capo 2

CHORDS USED:
D: x-x-0-2-3-2
Asus2: x-o-2-2-3-0
Em: 0-2-2-0-0-0
G: 3-2-0-0-3-3

Settling down with warm glow woodstove and kerosene
Peace you?re looking for, peace you?ll find
In the tangled mad cliff sides and crashing dark
Of Big Sur, of Big Sur

Rapturous ring of silence, Pacific fury
Flashing on the rocks, the sea shroud towers
The innocence of health and stillness in the wilds
Of Big Sur, of Big Sur

CHORUS
The whole surface of the world as we know it now
Will be covered with the silt of a billion years in time

I see as much as doors will allow
A long way from the Beat generation
Here comes the nightly moth to its nightly death
In Big Sur, in Big Sur

The best thing to do is not be false
The rocks of the valley left no howl of complaint
And I?m just a sick clown and so is everybody else
In Big Sur, in Big Sur

CHORUS

Words and music by Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard from the album One Fast Move Or Im Gone

Capo 2

Have [ G ]you sent men here
For this [ D ]cold clown
And [ A ]monstrous eater at the [ G ]world
Send illumination to our [ D ]drowning brains
Slime [ A ] hoops and iodine [ G ]weeds
Ive got to believe in [ D ]you
Or [ A ]live in death

Im [ Em ]going to die in [ G ]full despair
[ D ]Wake up wh [A ] ere
The [ Em ] atmosphere is [ G ]dearer
Maybe [ D ]closer to [ A ]heaven
[ Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/jay_farrar/low_life_kingdom_crd.html ]
We try to make our way
No aid comes from whatever and wherever
The low life kingdom where we part out tea
Heaven dear suggested to promise us
Youve not seen mermaids in my actual sea
Her name is oh so really high life

Im [ Em ]going to die in [ G ]full despair
[ D ]Wake up wh [A ] ere
The [ Em ] atmosphere is [ G ]dearer
Maybe [ D ]closer to [ A ]heaven

My golden empty soul
Will outlast your salty sill
In a billion years of trying
Weve had no crack at eternity
Ive got to believe in you
Or live in death

Im [ Em ]going to die in [ G ]full despair
[ D ]Wake up wh [A ] ere
The [ Em ] atmosphere is [ G ]dearer
Maybe [ D ]closer to [ A ]heaven