Biography:
Bad Books, simply put, is Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra.
A true accident if there ever was one; Bad Books was never an intended nor calculated side project of Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull. Though the two musicians have collaborated and performed together on tour and within the Favorite Gentlemen community of artists for years now, the genesis of Bad Books came from a simple idea to fill space and time off the road by collaborating on a small batch of songs together at the top of the year.
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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!
Bad Books - Mesa, AZ
Ano5 -5- (Slide up from G) A7 -0- G/F# -3- Dno5 -0- (slide up from C)
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Intro Lick
Dno5 G
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G C G
We passed 800 miles talking circles about living with loss
C G
You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & across
G C G
Every hurdle, every chasm, every shocking & unspeakable blow
C
Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your
G G/F#
throat
Em Ano5
But if you're fixed on being bitter
G A7
Go be bitter on your own
C
We're still two hours from El Paso
Dno5 G
Arizona's such a long way to go
The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
You were laughing at the moon, you were cursing it for wearing your face
Me & New Mexico are orphans
Or is it bastards? Either way:
I know a guy in Roswell
We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face
Interlude, Repeat Verse
Em Ano5
You sleep and whistle 'Blackbird' backwards
G A7
while my eyes cut her name in clay.
C
You wake to Mesa, Arizona
Dno5 G
Say, 'Let it go. She'll change her mind someday.'
C
You took the wheel in Mesa, Arizona.
Dno5
Said, 'I got the rest, man.
G
You can drift away.'
Ano5 -5- (Slide up from G) A7 -0- G/F# -3- Dno5 -0- (slide up from C)
-0- -2- -3- -3-
-0- -0- -0- -0-
-0- -2- -0- -4-
-4- -0- -0- -5-
-5- -X- -2- -X-
Intro Lick
Dno5 G
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--------3--5--3--------0----------------
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----4------------4-----0----------------
--5----------------5---2----------------
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G C G
We passed 800 miles talking circles about living with loss
C G
You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & across
G C G
Every hurdle, every chasm, every shocking & unspeakable blow
C
Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your
G G/F#
throat
Em Ano5
But if you're fixed on being bitter
G A7
Go be bitter on your own
C
We're still two hours from El Paso
Dno5 G
Arizona's such a long way to go
The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
You were laughing at the moon, you were cursing it for wearing your face
Me & New Mexico are orphans
Or is it bastards? Either way:
I know a guy in Roswell
We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face
Interlude, Repeat Verse
Em Ano5
You sleep and whistle 'Blackbird' backwards
G A7
while my eyes cut her name in clay.
C
You wake to Mesa, Arizona
Dno5 G
Say, 'Let it go. She'll change her mind someday.'
C
You took the wheel in Mesa, Arizona.
Dno5
Said, 'I got the rest, man.
G
You can drift away.'
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