Biography:
Stornoway was a British alternative indie folk band who formed in 2006 in the Cowley Road area of Oxford, UK. The band consisted of singer and guitarist Brian Briggs, multi-instrumentalists Jon Ouin and Oli Steadman, and the latter's brother Rob Steadman on drums. The band was often joined by trumpeter Adam Briggs and violinist Rahul Satija.
In October 2016 the band announced that they would be splitting up after a farewell tour during spring 2017. They played their final show on 12 March 2017.
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- I Never Thought Of Home
- I Saw You Blink
- Josephine
- Knock Me On The Head
- Long Distance Lullaby
- November Song
- The Bigger Picture
- The Cold Harbour Road
- The End Of The Movie
- Unfaithful
- Watching Birds
- We Are The Battery Human
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- You Take Me As I Am
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Couldn't find a full descriptive tab of this song. Used various online resources such as chordify for
reference. Here is the song in full and as accurate as I could get it, it's crazy fun to play! Enjoy!
4/4 Time
Each lyrical line is one measure
Abbreviated tab notation is used, e.g. A B A B to show rhythm.
[Chords]
A (X-0-2-2-2-0)
D (X-X-0-2-3-2)
F#m (2-4-4-2-2-2)
Bm (X-2-4-4-3-2)
G (3-2-0-0-0-3)
Em (0-2-2-0-0-0)
F# (2-4-4-3-2-2)
C#m (X-4-6-6-5-4)
E (0-2-2-1-0-0)
Gm (3-5-5-3-3-3)
[Intro]
A D
F#m Bm D Bm
F#m A D Bm
F#m G
A
[Verse]
D
I was nervous in the morning
Bm
In a car of backseat drivers
F#m
With a handful of the stories
A
From the chapters we were start-ing
D
Every time I crossed the border
Bm
Where the water flows in cascades
F#m
D
You were coming with your sister
Bm
From your mother's in the valley
F#m
Where the caws of rooks and ravens
F#m
Are the only thing you hear
G
As you imagine yourself living with no
Phone or electrici-
D
-ty
F#m
We were headed to the outpost
F#m
Where our friends had all assembled
G
To receive us in our glory
Em
Where the trees lean for their safety
D
From the edge of the world
D
And the birds revolved around us
F#m
As the sea swallowed our
C#m F# E
vows
[Pre-chorus]
G
And after we were married we went to our
Em
White stone cottage and you
A
Took your simple dress off and
G
Your tears fell in my eyes as we were over
-come with
A
Wonder and with love
Aaaa-round us
[Chorus]
D
You take me as I am
Bm
And you turn me into someone who could
F#m
Step right off this rock
G
And fly out across the ocean 'cause if
D
I were to die today
Bm
Well then it wasn't all a waste
F#m A
D
You take me as I am
Bm
For all my faults and problems
F#m
And you build me to withstand
A
Every gust and every gale, and if I
Em
Knew I was going to
Die, well I'd be satis-
A
-fied
'Cause we've shared this moment
[Verse]
D
On the first night of our future
We left the house in convoys
F#m
Aurora in the corner
A
Started sweeping up the stars, and we
D
Were talking all in whispers
Bm
For no reason we could think of
F#m
at all
F#m
D
As we clambered through the bracken
Bm
On our way up to the outcrop where
F#m
the wind shakes the gorse and the
Coast looks like a jigsaw piece
G
As the sun rose up around us
Em E
All neon pink and purple and
F#
Gold
G A G F#
[Pre-chorus]
G
And way down below the clifftops
Em
The sea broke on the shoreline
A
Without hearing itself roar
Without knowing we were here 'cause it was
G Bm
only doing
Em
What it was sup-
Gm
-posed to
Em
As you
[Chorus]
D
You take me as I am
Bm
And you turn me into someone who could
F#m
Step right off this rock
D
And fly out across the ocean 'cause
If I were to die
Bm F#m
Today well then it wasn't all a waste
F#m A
D
You take me as I am
Bm
For all my faults and problems and you
F#m
Build me to withstand
Every gust and every gale, and if I
Em
Knew I was going to
Die, well I'd be satis-
A
-fied
'Cause we've shared this moment
D F#m G Gm D Bm F#m
A
OoooOOoohh
D
You take me as I am
Bm
For all my faults and problems and you
F#m
Build me to withstand
F#
Every gust and every gale, and if I
Em A
Knew I was going to
F#m
Die
A
OOoooohh well I'd be satis-
G
-fied
Oooohh because we've
Gm
Shared this
mo-ment
[Outro]
D
Once you were a stranger but I
Struggle to remember now I
F#m
Picture us as children and the years
G
Before I met you on the first
D
Day of my life when the day
G
Broke like an antique
D
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reference. Here is the song in full and as accurate as I could get it, it's crazy fun to play! Enjoy!
4/4 Time
Each lyrical line is one measure
Abbreviated tab notation is used, e.g. A B A B to show rhythm.
[Chords]
A (X-0-2-2-2-0)
D (X-X-0-2-3-2)
F#m (2-4-4-2-2-2)
Bm (X-2-4-4-3-2)
G (3-2-0-0-0-3)
Em (0-2-2-0-0-0)
F# (2-4-4-3-2-2)
C#m (X-4-6-6-5-4)
E (0-2-2-1-0-0)
Gm (3-5-5-3-3-3)
[Intro]
A D
F#m Bm D Bm
F#m A D Bm
F#m G
A
[Verse]
D
I was nervous in the morning
Bm
In a car of backseat drivers
F#m
With a handful of the stories
A
From the chapters we were start-ing
D
Every time I crossed the border
Bm
Where the water flows in cascades
F#m
D
You were coming with your sister
Bm
From your mother's in the valley
F#m
Where the caws of rooks and ravens
F#m
Are the only thing you hear
G
As you imagine yourself living with no
Phone or electrici-
D
-ty
F#m
We were headed to the outpost
F#m
Where our friends had all assembled
G
To receive us in our glory
Em
Where the trees lean for their safety
D
From the edge of the world
D
And the birds revolved around us
F#m
As the sea swallowed our
C#m F# E
vows
[Pre-chorus]
G
And after we were married we went to our
Em
White stone cottage and you
A
Took your simple dress off and
G
Your tears fell in my eyes as we were over
-come with
A
Wonder and with love
Aaaa-round us
[Chorus]
D
You take me as I am
Bm
And you turn me into someone who could
F#m
Step right off this rock
G
And fly out across the ocean 'cause if
D
I were to die today
Bm
Well then it wasn't all a waste
F#m A
D
You take me as I am
Bm
For all my faults and problems
F#m
And you build me to withstand
A
Every gust and every gale, and if I
Em
Knew I was going to
Die, well I'd be satis-
A
-fied
'Cause we've shared this moment
[Verse]
D
On the first night of our future
We left the house in convoys
F#m
Aurora in the corner
A
Started sweeping up the stars, and we
D
Were talking all in whispers
Bm
For no reason we could think of
F#m
at all
F#m
D
As we clambered through the bracken
Bm
On our way up to the outcrop where
F#m
the wind shakes the gorse and the
Coast looks like a jigsaw piece
G
As the sun rose up around us
Em E
All neon pink and purple and
F#
Gold
G A G F#
[Pre-chorus]
G
And way down below the clifftops
Em
The sea broke on the shoreline
A
Without hearing itself roar
Without knowing we were here 'cause it was
G Bm
only doing
Em
What it was sup-
Gm
-posed to
Em
As you
[Chorus]
D
You take me as I am
Bm
And you turn me into someone who could
F#m
Step right off this rock
D
And fly out across the ocean 'cause
If I were to die
Bm F#m
Today well then it wasn't all a waste
F#m A
D
You take me as I am
Bm
For all my faults and problems and you
F#m
Build me to withstand
Every gust and every gale, and if I
Em
Knew I was going to
Die, well I'd be satis-
A
-fied
'Cause we've shared this moment
D F#m G Gm D Bm F#m
A
OoooOOoohh
D
You take me as I am
Bm
For all my faults and problems and you
F#m
Build me to withstand
F#
Every gust and every gale, and if I
Em A
Knew I was going to
F#m
Die
A
OOoooohh well I'd be satis-
G
-fied
Oooohh because we've
Gm
Shared this
mo-ment
[Outro]
D
Once you were a stranger but I
Struggle to remember now I
F#m
Picture us as children and the years
G
Before I met you on the first
D
Day of my life when the day
G
Broke like an antique
D
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