Biography:
Kevin Devine is an American songwriter and musician from Brooklyn, New York, who is known for alternately introspective and political lyrics and melodic acoustic guitar tunes. He cites his influences as Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Guns N' Roses, Brother Paramo and Nirvana, among others. He grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, and has spent significant time in Manhattan and Queens as well. Devine graduated Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 2001, majoring in journalism.
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Other songs:
- A Flatline Blur
- Brooklyn Boy
- Like Cursing Kids
- People Are So Fickle
- Splitting Up Christmas
- Tapdance
- The Longer That I'm Out Here
- You Are My Sunshine
- Afterparty
- Alabama Acres
- All Of Everything Erased
- Awake In The Dirt
- Before Youre Here
- Between The Concrete And Clouds
- Bloodhound
- Brothers Blood
- Bubblegum
- Burning City Smoke
- Cotton Crush
- Country Sky Glow
- Fever Moon
- Fingerprints And Photographs
- Go Haunt Someone Else
- Guys With Record Collections
- Haircut
- Heaven Bound Glory Be
- Holland 1945
- I Could Be With Anyone
- I Was Alive Back Then
- If We Meet Today
- Instigator
- Its Only Your Life
- Just Stay
- Kareem Abdul Jabar
- Keep Ringing Your Bell
- Less Yesterday More Today
- Little Bulldozer
- Longer That Im Out Here
- Lord I Know We Dont Talk
- Love Me Im A Liberal
- Luxembourg
- Marie
- Murphys Song
- No History
- No One Elses Problem
- No One Says You Have To
- No Time Flat
- No Why
- Noose Dressed Like A Necklace
- Not Over You Yet
- Now Navigate
- Off
- Part Of The Whole
- Probably
- Redbird
- She Stayed As Steam
- Shift Change Splits The Streets
- Sleepwalking Through My Life
- The Weathers Wonderful
- Tomarrows Just Too Late
- Tomorrows Just Too Late
- Trouble
- Wait Out The Wreck
- You Are The Daybreak
- You Knock Me Out
- Youll Only End Up Joining Them
- Youre My Incentive
- Yr Damned Old Dad
- Yr Husband
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This tab is based on the Acoustic performance by Kevin Devine found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJEuksQeyQE
He has his Capo on the 5th fret, but he must've had his guitar dropped half a step since Capo 4 sounds right.
I'm not 100% on the transition between Chorus and Verse. Please feel free to add a correction to it. Enjoy!
[Intro]
Strum muted strings 4 times, then go right into the 1st Verse.
[Verse]
Am F
The Future was a Plane through a skylight
C Em
Over Tribeca at 8:45
Am F
My brother, at a conference room table
C Em
Watched the future rearrange all our lives.
[Pre-Chorus]
F C F C
I was sleeping in her bed for the future
F C G C
1st & 20th, five miles away
F C F C
Her roommate knocked, he was a relative stranger
F C G Em
"Kev, I need you to come out here, okay?" "Okay."
[Verse]
Am F
The future was me, drunk at my desk job:
C Em
"Update the database, reflect the deceased."
Am F
Cantor Fitzgerald as a digital graveyard
C Em
Next to each name, I typed a lowercase "d"
[Pre-Chorus]
F C F C
I was frightened by the face of the future
F C G C
It had the teeth of perpetual war
F C F C
I called my father, he said, "I know, I see it.
F C G Em
I thought it made sense. I don't anymore."
[Chorus]
C Am F
The mosque on my corner
C Am G
The firetrucks everywhere
C Am F
The anger, The mourners
C Am G
No History, it's dead in the air
[Interlude]
D G C F
[Verse]
Am F
The future was an ad during football:
C Em
"We are supported by the will of the world."
Am F
From the floor, I felt everything tilting
C Em
I watched my brother hold his 10 month old girl
[Pre-Chorus]
F C F C
Fifteen years later, and we're still in the future
F C G C
The blood and money don't fix anything
F C F C
We've grown accustomed to the depths of the danger
F C G Em
This is the future: severe and always happening
[Chorus]
C Am F
The mosque on my corner
C Am G
The firetrucks everywhere
C Am F
The anger, The mourners
C Am G
No History, it's dead in the air
[Outro]
C Am G
No History, it's dead in the air
D G C F
Am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJEuksQeyQE
He has his Capo on the 5th fret, but he must've had his guitar dropped half a step since Capo 4 sounds right.
I'm not 100% on the transition between Chorus and Verse. Please feel free to add a correction to it. Enjoy!
[Intro]
Strum muted strings 4 times, then go right into the 1st Verse.
[Verse]
Am F
The Future was a Plane through a skylight
C Em
Over Tribeca at 8:45
Am F
My brother, at a conference room table
C Em
Watched the future rearrange all our lives.
[Pre-Chorus]
F C F C
I was sleeping in her bed for the future
F C G C
1st & 20th, five miles away
F C F C
Her roommate knocked, he was a relative stranger
F C G Em
"Kev, I need you to come out here, okay?" "Okay."
[Verse]
Am F
The future was me, drunk at my desk job:
C Em
"Update the database, reflect the deceased."
Am F
Cantor Fitzgerald as a digital graveyard
C Em
Next to each name, I typed a lowercase "d"
[Pre-Chorus]
F C F C
I was frightened by the face of the future
F C G C
It had the teeth of perpetual war
F C F C
I called my father, he said, "I know, I see it.
F C G Em
I thought it made sense. I don't anymore."
[Chorus]
C Am F
The mosque on my corner
C Am G
The firetrucks everywhere
C Am F
The anger, The mourners
C Am G
No History, it's dead in the air
[Interlude]
D G C F
[Verse]
Am F
The future was an ad during football:
C Em
"We are supported by the will of the world."
Am F
From the floor, I felt everything tilting
C Em
I watched my brother hold his 10 month old girl
[Pre-Chorus]
F C F C
Fifteen years later, and we're still in the future
F C G C
The blood and money don't fix anything
F C F C
We've grown accustomed to the depths of the danger
F C G Em
This is the future: severe and always happening
[Chorus]
C Am F
The mosque on my corner
C Am G
The firetrucks everywhere
C Am F
The anger, The mourners
C Am G
No History, it's dead in the air
[Outro]
C Am G
No History, it's dead in the air
D G C F
Am
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