Andrew Bird Tabs » Armchairs Tab
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Artist: Andrew Bird
Album: Armchair Apocrypha
Song: Armchairs
Tabbed by: Dylan (iatethelotus [at] hotmail)
[fill 1]
e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|---------------|
D|-------0-2-0---|
A|---0-2------3--|
E|-3-------------|
[intro]
e|----------------------------------|
B|------1------1------0------0------|
G|-----0------0------0------0-------|
D|----2------2------2------2--------|
A|-3------0------2------0-------3---|
E|----------------------------------|
e|----------------------------|---------------------|-------------|
B|----------------------------|---------------------|-------------|
G|----------------------------|---------------------|-------------|
D|----------------------------|---------------------|--------2----|
A|-------0-0---2-2------------|---2/3--2--0---0h2---|----0-2---3--|
E|-3-3---------------0-0---3--|-3-----------3-------|--3----------|
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
Am/F
I sighed a song that silence brings
it's the one that everybody knows
oh everybody knows
C
the song that silence sings
G (intro riff)
and this was how it goes
C
these looms that weave apocryphal
G
they're hanging from a strand
C
these dark and empty rooms were full
G
of incandescent hands
Am/F
an awkward pause
Am/F
a fatal flaw
Am/F
time it's a crooked bow
C
oh time's a crooked bow
in time you need to learn to love
G
the ebb just like the flow
D7 Bm7
grab hold of your bootstraps
Em
and pull like hell,
E Am
'til gravity feels sorry for you,
D
and lets you go
G C C/B
as if you lack the proper chemicals to know, oh
Am Bm
the way it felt the last time you let yourself
Am/F
fall this low
Am/F
time, oh time
C
it's a crooked bow
C/F#
time's a crooked bow
C/F C/G
time's a crooked bow
F G
fifty-five and three-eighths years later
F G
at the bottom of this gigantic crater
F G
an armchair calls to you
F G
yeah this armchair calls to you
C
and it says that some day
Cmaj7
we'll get back at them all
G
with epoxy and a pair of pliers
C Cmaj7
as ancient sea slugs begin to crawl
G
through the ragweed and barbed wire
C G
you didn't write you didn't call
F G
it didn't cross your mind at all
C
and through the waves
G
the waves of a.m. squall
F G
you couldn't feel a thing at all
Am/F G
your fifty-five and three-eighths tall
Am/F G
fifty-five and three-eighths tall
Am/F G
time
(Finishes on a high E note)
time