This is my very first guitar tab and I've been playing for about a year now. Anyway, it
sounds right to me. The ending sounds a bit off, though. Enjoy!
"Loose Leaves" by Bright Eyes
C
The story is in the soil
F G
Loose leaves cover the ground
C F G
There are volumes in the forest no one reads out loud
Em G
If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf...we used to climb but
no one tries to go up that far now
C F G
Yeah, we're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves
C F G
40 hours, television and prescription pills
Em G
Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who is to say, at least my doctor gets paid
C F G
So that is fine, yeah come by, we'll take the afternoon off
C F G
We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk
Em G
'Cause I've got nothing real, just empty space to fill
And you are my girl, I like your style, just imagine all the time we could kill
F G Em
And time is not poison but once you drink it all you'll die
Em Am
So lets just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night
C
Try to believe that once it's gone they will pour another round
We will come back to life
We'll come right back
C F G
It's all moving fast now, yeah, and that's what they say
C F G
And though some days still take forever I can't disagree
Em G
Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep, look in the mirror and
have no idea what happened in between
C F G
But I remember counting days down until the year could be done
C F G
So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn
Em G
And disappear again into a summer's bliss of staying out and sleeping in
and getting drunk with my friends
C F G
And that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back
I accept
C F G
I won't cling to what I had in the past
Em
but life is a slippery slope
Regret is the steepest hill
G
Hope for the best
Em G
Plan for the worst and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle
F G
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
Em Am
But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room and never know what
C
could have been, believe what everyone else tells me is true
[Rest is C, I think]
They will say 'true'
That is what they'll say
That's it
Believe what everyone else tells me is true
They will say 'true'
That is what they'll say
That's it
~Peace.
