Biography:
The Menzingers originally formed after the dissolution of Bob And The Sagets, a band local to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area of Pennsylvania. With the addition of Greg Barnett the band recorded a demo/self-released album "A Lesson In The Abuse Of Information Technology" in 2006.
Shortly thereafter they were signed by Go-Kart Records and re-recorded the songs from "A Lesson" and re-released their album with the addition of some new tracks.
At the Fest VII in Gainesville
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
- After The Party
- Ava House
- Bad Catholics
- Black Mass
- Boy Blue
- Burn After Writing
- Casey
- Charlies Army
- Coal City Blues
- Even For An Eggshell
- Freedom Bridge
- Gates
- Good Things
- Home Outgrown
- House On Fire
- I Cant Seem To Tell
- I Dont Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore
- I Was Born
- Irish Goodbyes
- Kentucky Gentlemen
- Livin Aint Easy
- Lookers
- Male Call
- Mexican Guitars
- Midwestern States
- My Friend Chris
- Nice Things
- No Ticket
- Obituaries
- On The Impossible Past
- Red White And Blues
- Richard Coury
- Rodent
- Sun Hotel
- Sun Hotel Pt 2
- Sunday Morning
- Tasker
- Tellin Lies
- The Bars
- The Obituaries
- The Shakes
- They Speak Of My Drinking But Never Of My Thirst
- Thick As Thieves
- Time Tables
- To Have And To Have Not
- Toy Soldier
- Transient Love
- When You Died
- Where Your Heartache Exists
- Whos Your Partner
- Your Wild Years
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This is The Menzinger's song 'Burn After Writing', second track from their latest
record: 'On the Impossible Past'. It's an acoustic version, with a fairly loose
structure in
comparison to the technicality of the record.
Verse 1:
D Bm
Here's to you, the same chords that I stole
A D
From a song that I once heard
Bm A
The Same melody I borrowed from the void
D Bm
I'd rather observe than structure a narrative
A
The characters are thin;
D Bm
The plot does not develop
A D
It ends where it begins
Link; D, Bm, A (x2)
Verse 2:
D
It's on the screen, in paperbacks
Bm A
In section 8 and cul-de-sacs
D
Electro haikus and drunk sonnets
Bm A
Are moving me along
Em
Along
Link: G, D, G, D
Chorus: (x2)
D
You cut my hair
Bm A
You left red ink everywhere
Em
Do my hands tell a story?
A
Is it boring?
Link (Palm Muted): D, Bm, A
Verse 3: (Palm-Muted)
D
What I'd give to force your sigh
Bm A
What I'd give to see you cry
D
What I'd give for your caress
Bm
To see your blue cotton dress
A
Balled up on the floor
D
Certain memories are the problem
Bm A D
Certain drunken lines are the shame
Bm
Seven hundred miles and four years
A D
I can't fight the flame; it burns
G
Burns, and it burns and it burns.
Chorus: (x2)
D
You cut my hair
Bm A
You left red ink everywhere
Em
Do my hands tell a story?
A
Is it boring?
Outro:
D
Was I wishing on satellites?
A D
Tell me how you've been doing that trick
A D
I'm just wishing the flame away
A D
Now I'm wishing the flame away
Nota Bene:
On the D's in the outro, and throughout other points during the song, you can add
embellishments to make it sounds a bit more tidy, but you don't have to. If you wanna
give it
a try, then whilst you're on the regular D Major shape, hit the fourth fret on the D
string, then move it up to second, then open again. Large.
record: 'On the Impossible Past'. It's an acoustic version, with a fairly loose
structure in
comparison to the technicality of the record.
Verse 1:
D Bm
Here's to you, the same chords that I stole
A D
From a song that I once heard
Bm A
The Same melody I borrowed from the void
D Bm
I'd rather observe than structure a narrative
A
The characters are thin;
D Bm
The plot does not develop
A D
It ends where it begins
Link; D, Bm, A (x2)
Verse 2:
D
It's on the screen, in paperbacks
Bm A
In section 8 and cul-de-sacs
D
Electro haikus and drunk sonnets
Bm A
Are moving me along
Em
Along
Link: G, D, G, D
Chorus: (x2)
D
You cut my hair
Bm A
You left red ink everywhere
Em
Do my hands tell a story?
A
Is it boring?
Link (Palm Muted): D, Bm, A
Verse 3: (Palm-Muted)
D
What I'd give to force your sigh
Bm A
What I'd give to see you cry
D
What I'd give for your caress
Bm
To see your blue cotton dress
A
Balled up on the floor
D
Certain memories are the problem
Bm A D
Certain drunken lines are the shame
Bm
Seven hundred miles and four years
A D
I can't fight the flame; it burns
G
Burns, and it burns and it burns.
Chorus: (x2)
D
You cut my hair
Bm A
You left red ink everywhere
Em
Do my hands tell a story?
A
Is it boring?
Outro:
D
Was I wishing on satellites?
A D
Tell me how you've been doing that trick
A D
I'm just wishing the flame away
A D
Now I'm wishing the flame away
Nota Bene:
On the D's in the outro, and throughout other points during the song, you can add
embellishments to make it sounds a bit more tidy, but you don't have to. If you wanna
give it
a try, then whilst you're on the regular D Major shape, hit the fourth fret on the D
string, then move it up to second, then open again. Large.
The Merseybeats
The Mess Inside
The Metasciences
The Meters
The Methadones