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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I think the intro sounds best all on barre chords, ie start on the 2nd fret for the F#m
and end up at the 12th fret for the E. As for the rest of the song, sounds best when
using the 5th root B chord on the second fret, and the corresponding F#m on the second
fret. I tend to use open D and E chords, has a nice sound. I actually worked this out
from a
live performance from 2009, when it was known as "Fool of a Martyr". But back then it
was in a different key, if you're trying to play that version, try putting it up 3
semitones, and the groundwork is mostly there!
Intro
F#m G#m A B C#m D E
B F#m
Dead lungs command it.
B F#m
You pour your life down the rifle's spiral
B F#m
And show us you've earned it
B F#m
The cleric's fog will recede right before your eyes
E F#m
So long to this wretched form
E F#m
Them grey eyes on the subway.
E F#m
Long before you were born
D E
You were always to be a dagger floating straight to their heart.
B F#m
"Listen now we won't tell anyone
B F#m
But you gonna tell the world
B F#m
This whole life ain't been any fun.
B F#m
Now your viscera unfurls,
E F#m
as you rise. Rise from your burning fiat and
E F#m
go. Go get my suitcase, would you?
E F#m D
You've thoroughly blown their minds and now I must
E
Have passage home. Your life. Just two veins from your heart."
B F#m x 3
D E
F#m G#m
You're not invisible now.
A B
You just don't exist.
C#m D
Your mother must be so proud.
E
You sublimate yourself granting us a wish
B F#m x 2
B F#m
A primitive mural on the wall
B F#m
to fortify your grim resolve.
B F#m
Amid the glitz of a shopping mall
B F#m
Another grain of indigent salt for the
E F#m
sea. Good night to these wretched forms.
E F#m
All them grey eyes on the subway.
E F#m D
So long before you were born you were always
E
to be a dagger floating straight to their heart.
B
and end up at the 12th fret for the E. As for the rest of the song, sounds best when
using the 5th root B chord on the second fret, and the corresponding F#m on the second
fret. I tend to use open D and E chords, has a nice sound. I actually worked this out
from a
live performance from 2009, when it was known as "Fool of a Martyr". But back then it
was in a different key, if you're trying to play that version, try putting it up 3
semitones, and the groundwork is mostly there!
Intro
F#m G#m A B C#m D E
B F#m
Dead lungs command it.
B F#m
You pour your life down the rifle's spiral
B F#m
And show us you've earned it
B F#m
The cleric's fog will recede right before your eyes
E F#m
So long to this wretched form
E F#m
Them grey eyes on the subway.
E F#m
Long before you were born
D E
You were always to be a dagger floating straight to their heart.
B F#m
"Listen now we won't tell anyone
B F#m
But you gonna tell the world
B F#m
This whole life ain't been any fun.
B F#m
Now your viscera unfurls,
E F#m
as you rise. Rise from your burning fiat and
E F#m
go. Go get my suitcase, would you?
E F#m D
You've thoroughly blown their minds and now I must
E
Have passage home. Your life. Just two veins from your heart."
B F#m x 3
D E
F#m G#m
You're not invisible now.
A B
You just don't exist.
C#m D
Your mother must be so proud.
E
You sublimate yourself granting us a wish
B F#m x 2
B F#m
A primitive mural on the wall
B F#m
to fortify your grim resolve.
B F#m
Amid the glitz of a shopping mall
B F#m
Another grain of indigent salt for the
E F#m
sea. Good night to these wretched forms.
E F#m
All them grey eyes on the subway.
E F#m D
So long before you were born you were always
E
to be a dagger floating straight to their heart.
B
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