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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Artist: The Shins
Album: Wincing The Night Away
Song: Split Needles
Intro picking -
e|------------------------------|
B|--2-0-----------------0-2-----|
G|0-------3-0-----0---3---------|
D|------1-------1---1-----------|
A|------------3-----------------|
E|
Intro chords (x2):
Dm Bb G Bb
Dm Bb F C
(Dm Bb G Bb)
I've done myself an impossible crime
(Dm Bb F C)
Had to paint myself a hole and fall inside
(Dm Bb G Bb)
If it's far enough in sight and rhyme
(Dm Bb F C)
I get to wear another dress and count in time
(Bb F G)
Oh, won't you do me the favor, man,
(Bb F C)
Of a giving mind,
(Bb F G)
A polymorphing opinion here,
(Bb F C)
And your vague outline,
(intro chords)
(Dm Bb G Bb)
I'll find myself another burning gate
(Dm Bb F C)
A pretty face, a vague idea I can't relate
(Dm Bb G Bb)
And this is get what you get for pulling pins
(Dm Bb F C)
Out of the hole inside the hole you're in
(Bb F G)
It's like I'm pressed on the handle bars
(Bb F C)
Of a blind man's bike
(Bb F G)
No straws to grab, just the rushing wind
(Bb F C)
On the rolling mind
[solo]
(intro chords)
(F C Bb)
They want you to decide,
(F C Eb)
Eventually, it happens,
(F C Bb)
Some gather on one side,
(F C Eb)
With all their pearly snapping,
(F C Bb)
They close the basement door,
(F C Eb)
It sets our teeth to chatter,
(F C Bb)
You never saw it before,
(F C C)
But now that hardly matters,
Dm F
You're old enough, boy,
Dm F
Too many summers you've enjoyed,
Dm
So spin the wheel,
F C
We'll set you up with some odd convictions,
Bb
Because you're finally golden, boy,
(intro chords)
(Bb F G)
It's like I'm pressed on the handle bars
(Bb F C)
Of a blind man's bike
(Bb F G)
No straws to grab, just the rushing wind
(Bb F C............Bb end)
On the rolling mind
Album: Wincing The Night Away
Song: Split Needles
Intro picking -
e|------------------------------|
B|--2-0-----------------0-2-----|
G|0-------3-0-----0---3---------|
D|------1-------1---1-----------|
A|------------3-----------------|
E|
Intro chords (x2):
Dm Bb G Bb
Dm Bb F C
(Dm Bb G Bb)
I've done myself an impossible crime
(Dm Bb F C)
Had to paint myself a hole and fall inside
(Dm Bb G Bb)
If it's far enough in sight and rhyme
(Dm Bb F C)
I get to wear another dress and count in time
(Bb F G)
Oh, won't you do me the favor, man,
(Bb F C)
Of a giving mind,
(Bb F G)
A polymorphing opinion here,
(Bb F C)
And your vague outline,
(intro chords)
(Dm Bb G Bb)
I'll find myself another burning gate
(Dm Bb F C)
A pretty face, a vague idea I can't relate
(Dm Bb G Bb)
And this is get what you get for pulling pins
(Dm Bb F C)
Out of the hole inside the hole you're in
(Bb F G)
It's like I'm pressed on the handle bars
(Bb F C)
Of a blind man's bike
(Bb F G)
No straws to grab, just the rushing wind
(Bb F C)
On the rolling mind
[solo]
(intro chords)
(F C Bb)
They want you to decide,
(F C Eb)
Eventually, it happens,
(F C Bb)
Some gather on one side,
(F C Eb)
With all their pearly snapping,
(F C Bb)
They close the basement door,
(F C Eb)
It sets our teeth to chatter,
(F C Bb)
You never saw it before,
(F C C)
But now that hardly matters,
Dm F
You're old enough, boy,
Dm F
Too many summers you've enjoyed,
Dm
So spin the wheel,
F C
We'll set you up with some odd convictions,
Bb
Because you're finally golden, boy,
(intro chords)
(Bb F G)
It's like I'm pressed on the handle bars
(Bb F C)
Of a blind man's bike
(Bb F G)
No straws to grab, just the rushing wind
(Bb F C............Bb end)
On the rolling mind
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