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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reference for this version(can also be played with album version tuned half step):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6AqteBI-ks
this song is a full step down
intro/interlude:
E--x-----------------|
B--3-----------------|
G--2-----------------|
D--0--0-0-1-2--------|
A--x----------2-2-0--|
E--x-----------------|
G
Draw your five short breaths and pretend it?s meditation
A7
Shower head higher power give me patience
C
Make me nobody?s robot make me nobody?s slaughtered lamb
G(E--3-2-3 while playing G chord)
D C D G(then interlude)
Deliver me from evil and open me as best you can.
G
Playin cracked guitar for the Boston Occupation
A7
Get your blindfold drift aimed and endless destinations
C
Watch the wake and assembly leave principled righteous lives
G(E--3-2-3 while playing G chord)
D C D G
With your heartbeat through set cement honored to be here guys.
G Bm
See it?s a slow crawl and a new wave
C B7
And if you feel small, don?t babe
Em D G(then interlude)
Whenever you?re alone you?re not
G
You wait in line so I can finish conversations
A7
Straighten out the stories and edit out the faces
C
You?re lost in the file when the cashier catches your eye
G(E--3-2-3 while playing G chord)
D C D G
Summon up a smile, come back to earth and mumble hi hi hi
G Bm
And it?s connected on a timeline
C B7
It?s a circle, no sides
Em D G (interlude into bridge)
At the same point where it starts it stops.
Am G D(single notes open d, c, b into Am chord)
Out on the back lot you wanted for nothin
A G D
you sat with your hands full, the future was open
C G
A dreamt southwestern sky
C G
A moon drenched island night
C G D
A new born day awake and alive.
G Bm
Now it?s a nightclub with a guest list
C B7
And oh oh, bad news kid
Em D G Em
Who ever?s gettin in we?re not
C D Bm C
So let?s start up our own just us
Em D Bm Em
Where anything we need, anything we need
C D G
Anything we need we?ve got.
what I mean during the first part of the bridge is this
(in case it wasn't clear):
E--0--3-----------0-|
B--1--3--3--------1-|
G--2--0--2--------2-|
D--2--0--0--0-----2-|
A--0--x-------3-2-0-|
E--x--3-----------x-|
during the second part (a dreamt southwestern sky...)
play this
E--0--3--3-3-3-3-3-|
B--1--0--0-1-0-1-0-|
G--0--0--0-0-0-0-0-|
D--2--0--0-2-0-2-0-|
A--3--x--x-x-x-x-x-|
E--x--3--3-3-3-3-3-|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6AqteBI-ks
this song is a full step down
intro/interlude:
E--x-----------------|
B--3-----------------|
G--2-----------------|
D--0--0-0-1-2--------|
A--x----------2-2-0--|
E--x-----------------|
G
Draw your five short breaths and pretend it?s meditation
A7
Shower head higher power give me patience
C
Make me nobody?s robot make me nobody?s slaughtered lamb
G(E--3-2-3 while playing G chord)
D C D G(then interlude)
Deliver me from evil and open me as best you can.
G
Playin cracked guitar for the Boston Occupation
A7
Get your blindfold drift aimed and endless destinations
C
Watch the wake and assembly leave principled righteous lives
G(E--3-2-3 while playing G chord)
D C D G
With your heartbeat through set cement honored to be here guys.
G Bm
See it?s a slow crawl and a new wave
C B7
And if you feel small, don?t babe
Em D G(then interlude)
Whenever you?re alone you?re not
G
You wait in line so I can finish conversations
A7
Straighten out the stories and edit out the faces
C
You?re lost in the file when the cashier catches your eye
G(E--3-2-3 while playing G chord)
D C D G
Summon up a smile, come back to earth and mumble hi hi hi
G Bm
And it?s connected on a timeline
C B7
It?s a circle, no sides
Em D G (interlude into bridge)
At the same point where it starts it stops.
Am G D(single notes open d, c, b into Am chord)
Out on the back lot you wanted for nothin
A G D
you sat with your hands full, the future was open
C G
A dreamt southwestern sky
C G
A moon drenched island night
C G D
A new born day awake and alive.
G Bm
Now it?s a nightclub with a guest list
C B7
And oh oh, bad news kid
Em D G Em
Who ever?s gettin in we?re not
C D Bm C
So let?s start up our own just us
Em D Bm Em
Where anything we need, anything we need
C D G
Anything we need we?ve got.
what I mean during the first part of the bridge is this
(in case it wasn't clear):
E--0--3-----------0-|
B--1--3--3--------1-|
G--2--0--2--------2-|
D--2--0--0--0-----2-|
A--0--x-------3-2-0-|
E--x--3-----------x-|
during the second part (a dreamt southwestern sky...)
play this
E--0--3--3-3-3-3-3-|
B--1--0--0-1-0-1-0-|
G--0--0--0-0-0-0-0-|
D--2--0--0-2-0-2-0-|
A--3--x--x-x-x-x-x-|
E--x--3--3-3-3-3-3-|
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