Biography:
A notorious homebody, Chad VanGaalen is well known for rarely leaving his rickety house in Calgary, endlessly drawing, recording and making art. With Diaper Island, VanGaalen distills his approach, producing his most sonically cohesive album to date, and the closest thing he has done to a rock album.
Also a celebrated visual artist, VanGaalen is widely renowned for his illustration and animation work. As with his previous albums – Infiniheart, Skelliconnection and the Polaris short-listed Soft Airplane
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Other songs:
- After The Afterlife
- Bare Feet On Wet Griptape
- Blood Machine
- Bones Of Man
- City Of Electric Light
- Cries Of The Dead
- Do Not Fear
- Evil
- Graveyard
- Hangmans Son
- I Changed My Name
- Inside The Molecules
- Mini Tvs
- Molten Light
- Monster
- Old Man The Sea
- Pine And Clover
- Poisonous Heads
- Rabid Bits Of Time
- Sara
- Wandering Spirits
- Weighed Sin
- Weird Love
- Willow Tree
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- Chord definitions below assume Open D tuning to match how Chad plays
- Tune 1/2 step down from Open D to match album recording
- Tune full step down from Open D to match live versions
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Verse Chorus Bridge
---------- ---------- ----------
A x0234x D x5305x D7 x556xx
C# x42x4x A x0234x D5 557xxx
D x5305x G x555xx
B x21x2x D x5305x
C x32x3x
A x0234x
Tuning: C#-G#-C#-F-G#-C# (Open D then tune a half step down)
[Intro]
A A
C#|------------------------------------------|---------------------------------0---------|
G#|-----4----------------------4----------4--|-----4----------------------4------4----4--|
F |-----3----0h3-0h3-0h3-0h3---3--------3----|-----3----------------------3----3---3--3--|
C#|-----2----------------------2----0h2------|-----2----0h2-0h2-0h2-0h2---2-----------2--| x2
G#|--0-----------------------0---------------|--0-----------------------0----------------|
C#|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
h = hammer-on
[Verse 1]
A
She was a shape shifter
C# D B
Politics didn’t matter to her, oh no
A
She’s born a million times over
C# D B
With a mind full of sweet smelling pine and clover
[Chorus 1]
D A
And she told ya, how to be low
D A
And she told ya, how to be low
[Verse 2]
A
She was a bona fide grifter
C# D B
You never could quite remember what she was or what she had been, oh yeah
A
She’s born a million times over
C# D B
With a mind full of sweet smelling pine and clover
[Chorus 2]
D A
And she told ya, how to be low
D A
And she told ya, how to be low
[Bridge]
D7 D5 D7 D5
G D5 G D5
D7 D5 D7 D5
G D5 G D5
D7 D5 D7 D5
So cut me round, you cut me deep
G D5 G D5
I need to know, how does it go?
D7 D5 D7 D5
It’s in the spaces, can you surround?
G D C A
I get so high, I can’t feel the ground
[Verse 3]
A
She was a shape shifter
C# D B
Politics didn’t matter to her, oh no
A
She’s born a million times over
C# D B A
With a mind full of sweet smelling pine and clover
- Chord definitions below assume Open D tuning to match how Chad plays
- Tune 1/2 step down from Open D to match album recording
- Tune full step down from Open D to match live versions
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Verse Chorus Bridge
---------- ---------- ----------
A x0234x D x5305x D7 x556xx
C# x42x4x A x0234x D5 557xxx
D x5305x G x555xx
B x21x2x D x5305x
C x32x3x
A x0234x
Tuning: C#-G#-C#-F-G#-C# (Open D then tune a half step down)
[Intro]
A A
C#|------------------------------------------|---------------------------------0---------|
G#|-----4----------------------4----------4--|-----4----------------------4------4----4--|
F |-----3----0h3-0h3-0h3-0h3---3--------3----|-----3----------------------3----3---3--3--|
C#|-----2----------------------2----0h2------|-----2----0h2-0h2-0h2-0h2---2-----------2--| x2
G#|--0-----------------------0---------------|--0-----------------------0----------------|
C#|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
h = hammer-on
[Verse 1]
A
She was a shape shifter
C# D B
Politics didn’t matter to her, oh no
A
She’s born a million times over
C# D B
With a mind full of sweet smelling pine and clover
[Chorus 1]
D A
And she told ya, how to be low
D A
And she told ya, how to be low
[Verse 2]
A
She was a bona fide grifter
C# D B
You never could quite remember what she was or what she had been, oh yeah
A
She’s born a million times over
C# D B
With a mind full of sweet smelling pine and clover
[Chorus 2]
D A
And she told ya, how to be low
D A
And she told ya, how to be low
[Bridge]
D7 D5 D7 D5
G D5 G D5
D7 D5 D7 D5
G D5 G D5
D7 D5 D7 D5
So cut me round, you cut me deep
G D5 G D5
I need to know, how does it go?
D7 D5 D7 D5
It’s in the spaces, can you surround?
G D C A
I get so high, I can’t feel the ground
[Verse 3]
A
She was a shape shifter
C# D B
Politics didn’t matter to her, oh no
A
She’s born a million times over
C# D B A
With a mind full of sweet smelling pine and clover
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