Biography:
Destroyer is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia fronted by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar and formed in 1995. Destroyer songs are characterized by abstract, poetic lyrics and idiosyncratic vocals. The band's discography draws on a variety of musical influences, resulting in albums that can sound markedly distinct from one another; in Bejar's words, "That's kind of my goal: to start from scratch every time."
1996–2001
We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge, Destroyer's 1996 debut, is made up of sixteen lo-fi home-recordings.
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Other songs:
- No Cease Fires Crimes Against The State Of Our Love Baby
- Babieca
- Beggars Might Ride
- Blue Eyes
- Certain Things You Ought To Know
- Chinatown
- Comments On The World As Will
- Destroyers The Temple
- Downtown
- Dream Lover
- English Music
- European Oils
- Farrar Straus And Giroux
- Foam Hands
- Goddess Of Drought
- Hell
- I Want This Cyclops
- Its Gonna Take An Airplane
- Kaputt
- Looters Follies
- Loves Of A Gnostic
- New Ways Of Living
- Notorious Lightning
- Painter In Your Pocket
- Rereading The Marble Faun
- Savage Night At The Opera
- Skys Grey
- Stay Lost
- Streethawk I
- Streethawk Ii
- Streets Of Fire
- The Bad Arts
- The Music Lovers
- This Night
- Times Square
- Trembling Peacock
- Virgin With A Memory
- Watercolours Into The Ocean
- Your Blood
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G Bm C (listen for timing) I find it easier to play the normal chords (barring the Bm)
G
They led us on...
Bm
They said it would be yours...
C
Tear down the borders, stop patrolling the shores,
let us in...
G Bm C
We wrote a winter song...
G Bm
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on...
C
Don't shelve the opera,
you've been working This long on it...
G Bm C
Twelve years on the Eastside,
G Bm C
and still so house proud...
G Bm C x4
(Shoo-la-la-la)
(Continue above verse chords)
All the neighbourhood angels,
are humming the psalms (hum along...)
to themselves again...
Oh, they seem to think that when you show up
you'd look good in somebody's arms...
Oh, you should have been a clerk...
You should have stayed a stranger...
You should have just done the work...
But it's too late now, school's out...
(Here it changes up a bit)
D
Wildcats - you were supposed to go wild...
C
Butchers - you shouldn't be obsessed with a child...
Bm
Now Diorama Pete thinks he just sunk the fleet...
Am
Much like him, you know I live to be cornered. So come on...
G Bm C
D
Hey, Easterner, open your mouth...
C
Don't speak in tones...
Bm
I know there's beauty in the bones of the dam that burst...
Am
I know you look good in the shadow of the Diamond Monger's thirst,
(pause)
but get out...
G Bm C (outro)
To the west there is an ocean...
There's a mountain on the right...
Now will you walk away
or take the blame for the unfortunately-named
children of This day... Children of This Night...
Often after the G Bm C chord progression I throw in a
G ---0---2-----
That's pretty much it. Enjoy!
G
They led us on...
Bm
They said it would be yours...
C
Tear down the borders, stop patrolling the shores,
let us in...
G Bm C
We wrote a winter song...
G Bm
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on...
C
Don't shelve the opera,
you've been working This long on it...
G Bm C
Twelve years on the Eastside,
G Bm C
and still so house proud...
G Bm C x4
(Shoo-la-la-la)
(Continue above verse chords)
All the neighbourhood angels,
are humming the psalms (hum along...)
to themselves again...
Oh, they seem to think that when you show up
you'd look good in somebody's arms...
Oh, you should have been a clerk...
You should have stayed a stranger...
You should have just done the work...
But it's too late now, school's out...
(Here it changes up a bit)
D
Wildcats - you were supposed to go wild...
C
Butchers - you shouldn't be obsessed with a child...
Bm
Now Diorama Pete thinks he just sunk the fleet...
Am
Much like him, you know I live to be cornered. So come on...
G Bm C
D
Hey, Easterner, open your mouth...
C
Don't speak in tones...
Bm
I know there's beauty in the bones of the dam that burst...
Am
I know you look good in the shadow of the Diamond Monger's thirst,
(pause)
but get out...
G Bm C (outro)
To the west there is an ocean...
There's a mountain on the right...
Now will you walk away
or take the blame for the unfortunately-named
children of This day... Children of This Night...
Often after the G Bm C chord progression I throw in a
G ---0---2-----
That's pretty much it. Enjoy!
Deva Premal
Deven May
Devendra Banhart
Devil Doll
Devin Davis