Biography:
Tokyo Police Club are an indie rock band from Newmarket, ON, Canada. The band consists of Dave Monks (vocals, bass), Josh Hook (guitar, percussion), Graham Wright (keyboards, guitar, vocals) & Greg Alsop (drums, percussion).
In 2005, Tokyo Police Club started by accident one day in the ordinary suburb of Newmarket when Greg, Josh, Dave, and Graham decided that they missed playing music together, their previous band having broken up several months before.
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Other songs:
- Listen To The Math
- Awesome Day
- Beaches
- Breakneck Speed
- Favourite Food
- Hang Your Heart
- Hercules
- Hot Tonight
- In A Cave
- Juno
- La Ferrassie
- My House
- Nature Of The Experiment
- Neighbours
- New Blues
- Not My Girl
- Not Sick
- Simple Dude
- Swedes In Stockholm
- Tessellate
- The Harrowing Adventures Of
- Toy Guns
- Tunnel Vision
- Wait Up Boots Of Danger
- Your English Is Good
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[Chords]
D Am G6 C G
e|---0---0----0-----0---3--|
B|---3---1----8-----1---0--|
G|---0---1----0-----0---0--|
D|---4---2----9-----2---0--|
A|---5---0----10----3---2--|
E|----------------------3--|
Taken off their live video for Paste Magazine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ikXdV91ug)
Note that the band tunes a half-step down for live performances.
***** The D is actually a Dadd9add11 (Ultimate Guitar didn't like that).
Just play an open C slid up two frets, meanwhile the G6 is an open C shape rooted on G.
This is Graham's rythym guitar part. Josh plays the same chords in Verse 1, except instead
of the G6 he plays a standard open G (I use standard G because it sounds more full when playing alone).
Josh's solo is based off the verse melody. For reference, I start on the twelfth fret of the B string,
up to the twelfth fret of the E string, then down to the tenth fret of the E string, and work off of that.
[Verse 1]
D
I've been low
I've been down
Am G6
And I don't want to go there anymore
D
The sky is white
The grass is gold
Am G6
And I can't make my shadow out at all
D
Oh babe, they're gonna tell us
What we can and cannot do
Am G6
Babe, they're gonna feed us to the fire
D
I can dance
And you can sing
Am G6
You know that's never going to have us down
[Chorus]
C
I got
G
New blues
C
And my
G
New blues
[Verse 2]
D
A battlecry, a mockingbird
Am G6
The same thing happens every single time
D
It's in my heart
It's in my soul
Am G6
For once I don't want it to be denied
D
Oh, no one's gonna tell us who we will and will not be
Am G6
No one's gonna show us to the door
D
'Cause I've been low
And I've been down
Am G6
And I don't want to go there anymore
[Chorus]
C
I got
G
New Blues
C
Singing
G
New Blues
Hey!
[Solo]
D Am G6 x4
[Chorus]
C
Singin'
G
New blues
C
And my
G
My true blues
[Outro]
C
Yes I did
D
Yes I did
G6 C
Yes I did
C
Yes I did
D
Yes I did
G6
Yes I
C
Yes I did
D
Yes I did
G6 C
Yes I did
C
Yes I did
D
Yes I did
G6
Yes I
C D G6
C D
(end on single strum)
D Am G6 C G
e|---0---0----0-----0---3--|
B|---3---1----8-----1---0--|
G|---0---1----0-----0---0--|
D|---4---2----9-----2---0--|
A|---5---0----10----3---2--|
E|----------------------3--|
Taken off their live video for Paste Magazine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ikXdV91ug)
Note that the band tunes a half-step down for live performances.
***** The D is actually a Dadd9add11 (Ultimate Guitar didn't like that).
Just play an open C slid up two frets, meanwhile the G6 is an open C shape rooted on G.
This is Graham's rythym guitar part. Josh plays the same chords in Verse 1, except instead
of the G6 he plays a standard open G (I use standard G because it sounds more full when playing alone).
Josh's solo is based off the verse melody. For reference, I start on the twelfth fret of the B string,
up to the twelfth fret of the E string, then down to the tenth fret of the E string, and work off of that.
[Verse 1]
D
I've been low
I've been down
Am G6
And I don't want to go there anymore
D
The sky is white
The grass is gold
Am G6
And I can't make my shadow out at all
D
Oh babe, they're gonna tell us
What we can and cannot do
Am G6
Babe, they're gonna feed us to the fire
D
I can dance
And you can sing
Am G6
You know that's never going to have us down
[Chorus]
C
I got
G
New blues
C
And my
G
New blues
[Verse 2]
D
A battlecry, a mockingbird
Am G6
The same thing happens every single time
D
It's in my heart
It's in my soul
Am G6
For once I don't want it to be denied
D
Oh, no one's gonna tell us who we will and will not be
Am G6
No one's gonna show us to the door
D
'Cause I've been low
And I've been down
Am G6
And I don't want to go there anymore
[Chorus]
C
I got
G
New Blues
C
Singing
G
New Blues
Hey!
[Solo]
D Am G6 x4
[Chorus]
C
Singin'
G
New blues
C
And my
G
My true blues
[Outro]
C
Yes I did
D
Yes I did
G6 C
Yes I did
C
Yes I did
D
Yes I did
G6
Yes I
C
Yes I did
D
Yes I did
G6 C
Yes I did
C
Yes I did
D
Yes I did
G6
Yes I
C D G6
C D
(end on single strum)
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