Artist: The Shins
Album: Wincing The Night Away
Song: A Comet Appears
Tabbed by: kyle naughton (isproutt [at] gmail)
Capo 2 Fret
(C* and F are barred)
Intro:
Am G F C*
Am G C
Am G F C*
F G*
Am G F C*
One hand on this wily comet,
Am G C
Take a drink just to give me some weight,
Am G F C*
some uber-man I'd make,
F G*
I'm barely a vapor.
Am G F C*
They shone a chlorine light on,
Am G C
A host of individual sins.
Am G F C*
Let's carve my aging face off,
G C*
Fetch us a knife,
G C*
start with my eyes,
G C*
down so the lines
F G*
form a grimacing smile.
Am G F C*
Close your eyes to corral a virtue,
Am G C
Is this fooling anyone else?
Am G F C*
Never worked so long and hard
F G*
to cement a failure.
Am F G C*
We can blow on our thumbs and posture,
Am G C
but the lonely is such delicate things,
Am G F C*
the wind from a wasp could blow them,
G* C*
into the sea,
G* C*
with stones on their feet,
G* C* F G
lost to the light and the loving we need,
Chourus:
F C F
Still to come,
C* G* F
the worst part and you know it,
C F
there is a numbness
C* G*
in you heart and it's growing.
C*
Solo:
Am G F C*
Am G C
Am G F C*
F G*
Am G F C*
Am G C
Am G F C*
F G*
Am G F C*
With burnt sage and a forest of bygones,
Am G
I click my heels,
C
get the devils in line,
Am G F C*
A list of things I could lay the blame on
F G*
might give me a way out.
Am G
but with each turn
F C*
it's this front and center,
Am G C
Like a dart stuck square in you eye,
Am G F C*
every post you can hitch your faith on,
G* C*
is a pie in the sky
G* C*
chock full of lies,
G* C*
a tool we devise
F G*
to make sinking stones fly,
F C F
Still to come,
C* G F
the worst part and you know it,
C F
there is a numbness
C* G*
in you heart and it's growing.
Am
Outro:
Am G F C*
Am G C
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