September - Shins
Tabbed by: Robert McMillan
Email: mcmillan_ra (at) hotmail.com
Tuning: Standard
Riff 1
e|------------------|
B|-2--2-----0-------|
G|-2-----2-----1----|
D|-2--------------4-|
A|-0----------------|
E|------------------|
Riff 2
e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|--0--2--4------|
E|---------------|
[Verse]
A C A
Into this strange elastic world
C A
Pont us kindly gave up a pearl
D G
His eternal stone and mud
D D7 A
But ain't she lovely bone and blood
C A
Born of the sea
Em G A
A thousand miles away from me
D
A court of angels
G
Wards of the sun
A future forming
D D7 A
A curse undone
[Chorus]
Riff 1
F#m A F#m A
Under our softly burning lamp she takes her time
Riff 1
F#m A E
Telling stories of our possible lives
G E A
And love is the ink in the well when her body writes
Riff 2
D A D
I've been selfish and full of pride
A D
And she knows deep down there's a little child
A F#m
But I've got a good side to me as well
E D Dsus4 D
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
[Break]
A C A Em G
[Verse]
A C A
A song in the tree has distracted her mind
C A
Some other curious form of life
D G
Has made it's presence to her known
D D7 A
And she coos so gently soft and low
C A
Her shining face in a million reflections
Em G A
in tiny raindrops that fall in a veil
D G
Over our city like notes from above
D D7 A
It overwhelms me! just aint that tough
[Chorus]
Riff 1
F#m A F#m
It's not that the darkness can't touch our lives
A
I know it will, in time
Riff 1
F#m A E
But she's no ordinary valentine
G
And now when the sun goes down
E A
she sheds a darling light.
Riff 2
D A D
I've been selfish and full of pride
A D
And she knows deep down there's a little child
A F#m
But I've got a good side to me as well
E D Dsus4 D
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
[Outro]
A C A G D A
[Notes] Watching James Mercer play it live on youtube. He does little embellishments
which add a fair bit to the song. But they aren't really necessary if you just want
to bash it out.
For example on the A chords he will generally play:
A A/E A
(I originally thought he was playing A/G, but he's using his pinky to mute the A string.) Likewise on the C:
C C/G C
A good example of this is on here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mveay4Ff1BU
Corrections welcome. Thanks to 677sam and Locohol for the corrections.
