Biography:
The Shins are an American indie rock band centered around James Mercer.
The band formed in 1997, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States as a side project of Mercer (previously of Blue Roof Dinner) and drummer Jesse Sandoval, who were both members of Flake Music. The band's original lineup was Mercer (vocals, guitar), Sandoval (drums), Marty Crandall (keyboards) and Dave Hernandez (bass). Neil Langford replaced Hernandez in 1998. Hernandez returned to the band in 2003, as Langford had left the band in 2001.
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Other songs:
- 40 Mark Strasse
- A Comet Appears
- Austrailia
- Bait And Switch
- For A Fool
- Girl On The Wing
- It's Only Life
- Kissing The Lipless
- New Slang
- Phantom Limb
- Pink Bullets
- Port Of Morrow
- September
- Simple Song
- Sleeping Lessons
- So Now What
- Australia
- Saint Simon
- A Call To Apathity
- Breathe
- Caring Is Creepy
- Celebate Life
- Celibate Life
- Cherry Hearts
- Dead Alive
- Eating Styes From Elephant Eyes
- Eating Styes From Elephants Eyes
- Fall Of 82
- Fantasy Island
- Fighting In A Sack
- Flake Music
- Girl Inform Me
- Gone For Good
- Half A Million
- Heartworms
- Its Only Life
- Know Your Onion
- Mildenhall
- Mines Not A High Horse
- My Seventh Rib
- Name For You
- No Way Down
- Nothing At All
- One By One All Day
- Painting A Hole
- Pam Berry
- Pariah King
- Past And Pending
- Plenty Is Never Enough
- Pressed In A Book
- Red Rabbits
- Rubber Ballz
- Sea Legs
- So Says I
- Sphagnum Esplanade
- Spilt Needles
- Split Needles
- The Fear
- The Past And Pending
- The Past And The Pending
- The Rifles Spiral
- The Waltz Is Over
- Theyll Soon Discover
- Those Bold City Girls
- Those To Come
- Turn A Square
- Turn On Me
- We Will Become Silhouettes
- Weird Divide
- When I Goose Step
- Won One Too Many Fights
- Young Pilgrims
- Your Algebra
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[Verse 1]
Em F G
I make myself a promise
C D
Then break it every night
Em C Em
I'm feeling loose and life don't make no sense
C
I use my brains to build a fence
G D
'Round the claim I stake
C Em F
I take the drugs but the drugs won't take
[Verse 2]
G C Em F G
I took a pledge to grow up
G C D
Then drank enough to make me throw up
Em C Em
On all my dearly disappointed friends
C
I'm just too lazy to make amends
G D
With you anyway
C Em F
That's why the pattern still remains
[Chorus]
G Am Em
There's a half a million things that I'm supposed to be
Em D
A shelter in the nighttime
G
A punk running free
G Am Em
And if it gets too deep I reach for my guitar
D
And if I try hard
C G
I find something I can really drop into
Em D
And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing
C G
'Cause everything is something next to nothing
Em D G
As crazy as it seems, you give it up and you are free
[Verse 3]
G C Em F G
Another candle to blow out
G C D
New set of dark thoughts to shut out
Em C Em
And everybody's got their remedies
C
But nothing works like chemistry
G D
So raise a toast
C Em F
No more sipping from the fire hose
[Chorus]
G Am Em
There's a half a million things that I'm supposed to be
Em D
A shelter in the nighttime
G
A punk running free
G Am Em
And if it gets too deep I reach for my guitar
D
And if I try hard
C G
I find something I can really drop into
Em D
And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing
C G
'Cause everything is something next to nothing
Em D
As crazy as it seems, you give it up and you are free
[Break]
G Am Em D
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[Chorus]
G Am Em
There's half a million things that you're supposed to be
Em D
A virgin in the moonlight
G
A freak on the scene
G Am Em
And when it gets too deep you reach for your guitar
D
And if you try hard
G Am Em
There's a half a million things that I'm supposed to be
Em D
A shelter in the nighttime
G
A punk running free
G Am Em
And if it gets too deep I reach for my guitar
D
And if I try hard
G Am Em
There's a half a million things that I'm supposed to be
Em D
A shelter in the nighttime
G
A punk running free
G Am Em
And if it gets too deep I reach for my guitar
D
And if I try hard
Em F G
I make myself a promise
C D
Then break it every night
Em C Em
I'm feeling loose and life don't make no sense
C
I use my brains to build a fence
G D
'Round the claim I stake
C Em F
I take the drugs but the drugs won't take
[Verse 2]
G C Em F G
I took a pledge to grow up
G C D
Then drank enough to make me throw up
Em C Em
On all my dearly disappointed friends
C
I'm just too lazy to make amends
G D
With you anyway
C Em F
That's why the pattern still remains
[Chorus]
G Am Em
There's a half a million things that I'm supposed to be
Em D
A shelter in the nighttime
G
A punk running free
G Am Em
And if it gets too deep I reach for my guitar
D
And if I try hard
C G
I find something I can really drop into
Em D
And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing
C G
'Cause everything is something next to nothing
Em D G
As crazy as it seems, you give it up and you are free
[Verse 3]
G C Em F G
Another candle to blow out
G C D
New set of dark thoughts to shut out
Em C Em
And everybody's got their remedies
C
But nothing works like chemistry
G D
So raise a toast
C Em F
No more sipping from the fire hose
[Chorus]
G Am Em
There's a half a million things that I'm supposed to be
Em D
A shelter in the nighttime
G
A punk running free
G Am Em
And if it gets too deep I reach for my guitar
D
And if I try hard
C G
I find something I can really drop into
Em D
And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing
C G
'Cause everything is something next to nothing
Em D
As crazy as it seems, you give it up and you are free
[Break]
G Am Em D
Ooh ooh ooh, la la la, la la la la la
G Am Em D
Ooh ooh ooh, la la la, la la la la la
[Chorus]
G Am Em
There's half a million things that you're supposed to be
Em D
A virgin in the moonlight
G
A freak on the scene
G Am Em
And when it gets too deep you reach for your guitar
D
And if you try hard
G Am Em
There's a half a million things that I'm supposed to be
Em D
A shelter in the nighttime
G
A punk running free
G Am Em
And if it gets too deep I reach for my guitar
D
And if I try hard
G Am Em
There's a half a million things that I'm supposed to be
Em D
A shelter in the nighttime
G
A punk running free
G Am Em
And if it gets too deep I reach for my guitar
D
And if I try hard
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