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First Sight - These United States
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Tabbed by: theratking
Tuning: Standard
The whole song is just I-vi - ii - V, but it's probably easiest
to play it with the capo on 3
All chords/tab are relative to a capo on 3
The licks I tabbed out are just a sketch, just fool around
with the different chords and patterns
G - repeat twice
e|---------3--------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------3---------------------------------------------|
G|---------0----------3--1--0---------------------------------|
D|--------------0---------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-3----------------------------------------------------------|
Em - repeat twice
e|---------3--------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------3---------------------------------------------|
G|---------0----------3--1--0---------------------------------|
D|--------------0(2)------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-0----------------------------------------------------------|
Am - repeat twice
e|---------3--------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------3---------------------------------------------|
G|-2------------------3--1--0---------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-0----------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
D - repeat twice
e|---------3--------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------3---------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------3--1--0---------------------------------|
D|-0----------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
G
with her mouth making movements to introduce thoughts
Em
I sat deafened by trust on that sofa across
Am
quietly calculating the logistics of lust
D
of when unspoken things could then happen between us
and once all those were done and we
got through love, we would
shoot from the hip, reacting
off of the cuff, splitting
up at the fork when the
going got rough, with a
plan for a point to
rejoin on the road further up
our windows thin where the ice
carved its flowers, I would
hold her, let the wind beat
back those hours, and then
standing on subway trains
clutching her dress,
dependent on her balance, since the
walls were useless, and while it's
alright to hold tight, please don't
try to hold on, cause it's a
homerun we hit, love, it's
going and gone
and then the world turned so fast, it was
astoundingly still and it
must have been that moment made of
midnight on the hill, right when the
cataraxed alleycat
spat back at the moon, throwing out
into the night, time nine
life times too soon, we had
come such a ways, and knew
just what he meant, there's a
picture of the three of us at the
gate to the garden of eden
you can get home, but you
can't get in
locks are like longing; an
everchanging thing
and keys are just clouds
made of metal and spark
we knew exactly who we were, and yet
couldn't quite say who we still are
I saw it all happening in one grand epic sweep, from that
first sight that we wouldn't
get to sleep for a week
and generations would follow
the course that we'd charted
from that sofa across,
I couldn't
wait to get started.
