Artist: Dirty Projectors
Album: Swing Lo Magellan
Song: About to Die
Tabbed by: thome_8
One of the strongest songs on the album, had to tab it cos it's fun to yelp to. Lyrics
lifted from songmeanings.net (thanks!), chords lifted from listening to the record
(thanks!). Sorry for any inaccuracy.
I found it hard to decipher guitar chords for the bridge. I advise you just double up
the vocal line on your guitar.
Enjoy!
Bb6 X13333
Dm6 XX0201
C X32010
F 133211
Dm X00231
Em 022000
C6 X05555
C7 X32310
A7 002020
INTRO
Bb6 Dm6 C F
Dm F Em C6
Em C6
VERSE 1
Bb6 Dm6 C F /
If the search has been long and futile and brutal
Dm F Em C6
And if you squint trying to reconnect the bosom
Em C6
of your hood rum love (hey baby)
You reach out and into the absence and gasping
The vastness grabs you like an alien embrace
Your face to it's face
No end and neither beginning you're spinning
Your breathless orb but in a dark and hateful star
An evil world
CHORUS
Bb C7 F Dm
Where would I ever be without you?
Bb C7 F Dm Bb C7
How could I hope to seize the tablet of values and redact it?
F Dm
Foolish I know but I'm about to die
F Dm
About to die x2
F A7
About to die
VERSE 2
Your life must surely be ending and trembling
You realize you never lived a day at all (Wait)
And it's all your fault (Wow)
It all seems unspeakably vile and while
You wretch the memory above, you understood
The vandal lies into his hood
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Look there the goblins dressed up like a wound
Mutants are vagrant and hateful
Look there the mirror a zombie stands staring
Vacant and glaring pronouncing your name
As you're saying
F Dm
About to die
CHORUS
Where would I ever be without you? (No fucking clue)
How could I hope to seize the tablet of values and redact it?
Foolish I know but I'm about to die
About to die
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