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Don't know the chords? Chord View (by JGuitar)
#----------------------------PLEASE NOTE-----------------------------# # This represents the author's own work and interpretation of the # # song. To be used only for private study, scholarship, or research. # #--------------------------------------------------------------------#
Artist: The Shins
Album: Wincing The Night Away
Song: Australia
Tabbed by: aburriendome
Intro: E
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|----------------6--|
D|--------6---9------|
A|--7-9--------------|
E|-------------------|
[verse]
C#m
Born to multiply or
F#m
Born to gaze into night skies
A G#m E
All you want's one more Saturday
C#m
But look here until then
F#m
They're gonna buy your life's time
A
So keep your wick in the air
B
And your feet in the fetters 'til the day
E
They come in doing cartwheels
[chorus]
B
We all crawl out by ourselves
E
And your shape on the dance floor
B
Will have me thinking such filth I'll gouge my eyes
C#m A C#m
You'd be damned to be one of us girl
A
Faced with dodo's conundrum
E F#m A
I felt like I could just fly
G#m B
But nothing happened every time I tried
E
[verse]
C#m
Oh, duotone on the wall
F#m
The selfless fool who hoped he'd save us all
A G#m E
He never dreamt of such sterile hands
C#m
You keep them folded in your lap
F#m
And raise them up to beg for scraps
A B
You know he's holding you down with the tips of his fingers just the same
[chorus]
E
Will you be pulled from the ocean
B
But just a minute too late
E
Or changed by a potion
B
To find a handsome young mate for you to love
C#m A
You'll be damned to pining through the window panes,
C#m A E F#m
and oh you'd trade your life for any ordinary Joe's
A
And though your night will go on
G#m B
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold
E | C#m | F#m | A | G#m E
E | C#m | F#m | E B
Solo: I don't have it complete but it's not so hard to work out.
|------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|--9-10-^12-10-12-10-9---------|-------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-----9-11-/13-11-----11/13-11--|
|----------------------11-9-11-|--11--------------11-----------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|------------9-----7----5-------|
|-------------10/9--9/7--7/5-4--|
|-13-11----9--------------------| I think the rest it's just playing
|-------11----------------------| with the C#m chord and E pentatonic
|-------------------------------| (try to finish it)
--------------------------------|
E
Been alone since you were twenty-one
B
You haven't laughed since January
E
You try and make like this is so much fun
B
But we know it to be quite contrary
La la la la la la la
C#m A C#m
Dare to be one of us girl
A
Faced with the android's conundrum
E F#m A
I feel like I should just cry
G#m A
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
G#m
Yeah, Himmler in your coat
A
You don't know how long I have been
G#m A
Watching the latern dim
G#m A
Starved of oxygen
F#m A B E
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window.