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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UPDATE 2014: Missing chords filled in thanks to contributions from users. Cheers, all.
I figured it out on an acoustic guitar and keyed it to match the CD. I did it with a
on the first fret to play the whole thing using simpler open chords. For beginners, this
the chord name used ONLY represents the chord shape. So when you play a G with capo,
actually playing Ab/G#, C=C#, etc.
The open chords I used:
G = 320001
C = x32010
F = 113211 (or xx3211 if you don't want to barre it)
Em= 022000
Am= x02210
D = x00232
Bb= x13331
Any help with the parts I missed or if you'd just like to share how lame I am for
them can be sent to [email protected]
Cheers
CAPO FIRST FRET
INTRO
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
Bb D
G C F
Hurled to the center of the earth again
G Em
The place where it?s hot love
F G
You know it hurts to breathe in
G Em Am
And the watershed you balance on is begging it
Bb D
Well did he ever know? Will he ever know?
G C F
The trees in the moonshine are a dark lattice
G Em F G
So you catalogue every angle you notice
G Em Am
In a vacuum you are charged to record this
Bb D C
So you won?t make it easy on me
CHORUS:
C G F
I can?t go into this no more
G C
It puts too many thorns on my mind
D G
And the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor
F G F G C
We?ve pissed in far too ma-ny Sprites
D
And they?re all standing up for their rights
G C F
G Em F
G C F
Born on a desert floor, you?ve the deepest thirst
G Em F G
And you came to my sweet shore to indulge it
G Em Am
With the wan and drilling eyes of an orphan
Bb D
But there was not enough, there is not enough
G C F
Out of a gunnysack fall red rabbits
G Em F G
Into a crucible to be rendered an emulsion
G Em Am
And we can?t allow a chance they?d restore themselves
Bb D C
So we can?t make it easy on you
CHORUS #2
C G F
Undaunted, you bathe in hollow cries
G C
The boys with swollen sunburnt eyes
D G
A reward for letting nothing under their skin
F G F G C
So help me I don?t know, I might
D Bb G
Just give the ole Dark Side a try
BRIDGE
C D
Don?t cast your willing eyes on the shore
Bb G
?til we even the score
C D
I still owe you for he hole in the floor
Bb G
And the ghost in the hall
C D
Who decides who paddles over the falls?
D?
Yeah, who makes the call? Who makes the call?
(INSTRUMENTAL OVER VERSE PROGRESSION x2)
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
Bb D
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
D
CHORUS #3
C G F
I know there?s an eventual
G C
Release from every scale of crime
D G
But the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor
F G F G F G F G
We?ve pissed on far too ma-ny good in-ten-tions
F G F G C
Held by cle-ver sprites
D
And they?re all standing up for their rights
G
I figured it out on an acoustic guitar and keyed it to match the CD. I did it with a
on the first fret to play the whole thing using simpler open chords. For beginners, this
the chord name used ONLY represents the chord shape. So when you play a G with capo,
actually playing Ab/G#, C=C#, etc.
The open chords I used:
G = 320001
C = x32010
F = 113211 (or xx3211 if you don't want to barre it)
Em= 022000
Am= x02210
D = x00232
Bb= x13331
Any help with the parts I missed or if you'd just like to share how lame I am for
them can be sent to [email protected]
Cheers
CAPO FIRST FRET
INTRO
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
Bb D
G C F
Hurled to the center of the earth again
G Em
The place where it?s hot love
F G
You know it hurts to breathe in
G Em Am
And the watershed you balance on is begging it
Bb D
Well did he ever know? Will he ever know?
G C F
The trees in the moonshine are a dark lattice
G Em F G
So you catalogue every angle you notice
G Em Am
In a vacuum you are charged to record this
Bb D C
So you won?t make it easy on me
CHORUS:
C G F
I can?t go into this no more
G C
It puts too many thorns on my mind
D G
And the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor
F G F G C
We?ve pissed in far too ma-ny Sprites
D
And they?re all standing up for their rights
G C F
G Em F
G C F
Born on a desert floor, you?ve the deepest thirst
G Em F G
And you came to my sweet shore to indulge it
G Em Am
With the wan and drilling eyes of an orphan
Bb D
But there was not enough, there is not enough
G C F
Out of a gunnysack fall red rabbits
G Em F G
Into a crucible to be rendered an emulsion
G Em Am
And we can?t allow a chance they?d restore themselves
Bb D C
So we can?t make it easy on you
CHORUS #2
C G F
Undaunted, you bathe in hollow cries
G C
The boys with swollen sunburnt eyes
D G
A reward for letting nothing under their skin
F G F G C
So help me I don?t know, I might
D Bb G
Just give the ole Dark Side a try
BRIDGE
C D
Don?t cast your willing eyes on the shore
Bb G
?til we even the score
C D
I still owe you for he hole in the floor
Bb G
And the ghost in the hall
C D
Who decides who paddles over the falls?
D?
Yeah, who makes the call? Who makes the call?
(INSTRUMENTAL OVER VERSE PROGRESSION x2)
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
Bb D
G C F
G Em F
G Em Am
D
CHORUS #3
C G F
I know there?s an eventual
G C
Release from every scale of crime
D G
But the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor
F G F G F G F G
We?ve pissed on far too ma-ny good in-ten-tions
F G F G C
Held by cle-ver sprites
D
And they?re all standing up for their rights
G
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