Biography:
Singer/songwriter Derek Archambault is no stranger to the spotlight; he has spent the last 4 years on tour with progressive hardcore/punk band Defeater, and has had a solo project called Alcoa going for even longer. After countless years of keeping Alcoa on the backburner, this project will finally have a debut full-length album see the light of day in 2012.
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There are 2 main chords that repeat throughout the entire song, I figured this out by ear and by watching
some of his acoustic sessions on youtube.
2 cords:
-Bb:
-0---
-3---
-2---
-0---
-1---
-0---
-Eb:
-0---
-0---
-3---
-2---
-1---
-0---
OPENING RIFF: h= hammer on ho= hammer off
STRUMMING PATTERN: down down down up down up(h) up down(ho) up(h) up down up
Bb Eb
-0---------0------0---------0---|
-3---------3------0---------0---|
-0---------2------3---------3---|
-0---------0------0---------2---|
-1---------1------1---------1---|
-0---------0------0---------0---|
CHORDS W/ LYRICS:
(RIFF)
Bb Eb
Excuses pour out so easily and I've never had a trouble
with the frequency.
Bb
But it needs a mate to calm me down,
Eb Bb Eb Bb
postcards and phones calls to a long distance small town.
(RIFF)
Bb
And I've never been good with secrets to keep,
Eb
but I can lie white, right through my teeth.
Bb Eb
That current takes us, and we breathe it in.
Bb Eb
Mistakes in old friends to a short coming, quick end.
Bb Bb
An empty-eyed blank stare at an atlas,
Eb Bb Eb
I'm lost without a map or compass.
Bb Eb
And I revise and I rewrite.
Bb Eb Bb Eb
I'm drowning in long nights, late drives with old ghosts,
Eb
I'm an index of footnotes.
Bb Eb
And I'm sick, sick, sick of my complaining, that rhetoric
that I've been writing.
Bb Eb
That blood red bled from ink to pen, I'm blue/black
backwards, I am paper thin.
(RIFF plays softer towards the end)
some of his acoustic sessions on youtube.
2 cords:
-Bb:
-0---
-3---
-2---
-0---
-1---
-0---
-Eb:
-0---
-0---
-3---
-2---
-1---
-0---
OPENING RIFF: h= hammer on ho= hammer off
STRUMMING PATTERN: down down down up down up(h) up down(ho) up(h) up down up
Bb Eb
-0---------0------0---------0---|
-3---------3------0---------0---|
-0---------2------3---------3---|
-0---------0------0---------2---|
-1---------1------1---------1---|
-0---------0------0---------0---|
CHORDS W/ LYRICS:
(RIFF)
Bb Eb
Excuses pour out so easily and I've never had a trouble
with the frequency.
Bb
But it needs a mate to calm me down,
Eb Bb Eb Bb
postcards and phones calls to a long distance small town.
(RIFF)
Bb
And I've never been good with secrets to keep,
Eb
but I can lie white, right through my teeth.
Bb Eb
That current takes us, and we breathe it in.
Bb Eb
Mistakes in old friends to a short coming, quick end.
Bb Bb
An empty-eyed blank stare at an atlas,
Eb Bb Eb
I'm lost without a map or compass.
Bb Eb
And I revise and I rewrite.
Bb Eb Bb Eb
I'm drowning in long nights, late drives with old ghosts,
Eb
I'm an index of footnotes.
Bb Eb
And I'm sick, sick, sick of my complaining, that rhetoric
that I've been writing.
Bb Eb
That blood red bled from ink to pen, I'm blue/black
backwards, I am paper thin.
(RIFF plays softer towards the end)
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