Biography:
Richard Buckner is an American singer songwriter born in California, resident in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for a number of years, and currently living in Brooklyn, NY. A critically-acclaimed artist most often associated with the Alternative Country movement, Buckner has in recent albums eschewed his initial acoustic approach and displayed an increasing interest in more abstract music styles.
Buckner began his career with the acoustic "Bloomed" (1994)
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Richard Buckner - Rafters
Standard Tuning
Tab ear-transcribed by Scott Eisenhardt
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4 C#m
e|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-
A|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-
D|--1-----3-----2-----4-----6-
G|--2-----4-----2-----4-----6-
B|--2-----4-----0-----2-----4-
E|--0-----x-----x-----x-----x-
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
Now that I know what I’d hoped had to be in
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
mind was true and refused and just in time
Asus2 Bsus4
Do you wonder why?
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
It seems I let up with the dents of a near-collision.
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
I couldn’t call and wrecked and turned up missing.
Asus2 Bsus4
But until then
Asus2 Bsus4
I’m cutting to the end
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
it’s cold in the light
Bsus4 C#m
the one we never seemed to find
Bsus4
I opened the door instead,
C#m Bsus4 Asus2 Bsus4 C#m " Bsus4
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
But you knew the lock
Bsus4 C#m
and the way I was looking
Bsus4
and still not a thing was said
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
I guess I can show that I thought I’d never
E
have you long
F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
it’s a wall that you feel but you’re already slipping
Asus2 Bsus4
and away you slide
Asus2 Bsus4
can you take the ride
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
what did it mean when we stood
Bsus4 C#m
with our building slanted high
Bsus4
and we spoke of harder times
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
I pulled the rafters down
Bsus4 C#m
but the ghosts were only dropping
Bsus4
and honey since that night
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
E
Standard Tuning
Tab ear-transcribed by Scott Eisenhardt
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4 C#m
e|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-
A|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-
D|--1-----3-----2-----4-----6-
G|--2-----4-----2-----4-----6-
B|--2-----4-----0-----2-----4-
E|--0-----x-----x-----x-----x-
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
Now that I know what I’d hoped had to be in
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
mind was true and refused and just in time
Asus2 Bsus4
Do you wonder why?
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
It seems I let up with the dents of a near-collision.
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
I couldn’t call and wrecked and turned up missing.
Asus2 Bsus4
But until then
Asus2 Bsus4
I’m cutting to the end
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
it’s cold in the light
Bsus4 C#m
the one we never seemed to find
Bsus4
I opened the door instead,
C#m Bsus4 Asus2 Bsus4 C#m " Bsus4
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
But you knew the lock
Bsus4 C#m
and the way I was looking
Bsus4
and still not a thing was said
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
I guess I can show that I thought I’d never
E
have you long
F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
it’s a wall that you feel but you’re already slipping
Asus2 Bsus4
and away you slide
Asus2 Bsus4
can you take the ride
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
what did it mean when we stood
Bsus4 C#m
with our building slanted high
Bsus4
and we spoke of harder times
C#m Bsus4 Asus2
I pulled the rafters down
Bsus4 C#m
but the ghosts were only dropping
Bsus4
and honey since that night
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
E F#11 Asus2 Bsus4
E
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