"Welcome Home, Son" Radical Face - Ghost (2007) Tabbed by Dylan Williams Send questions or comments to [email protected] Every once in a while, I will discover that the tabs for a rather good or popular song are so chaotic and muddled that they make the song far more complicated than it actually is. The chords themselves are fairly simple, the rhythm is probably what makes this song so confusing, as it changes, like, four hundred times, making the song seem practically through-composed. Listen to the song a few to times to get all of the rhythm changes down. If you want to play in the original key of F#, capo it at the sixth. Chords used: C ------ X32010 Em ----- 022000 F ------ X3321X G ------ 320003 Am ----- X02210 You should know those, right? [Intro] C Em C Em C Em F C F C G F C F C G C [The transition from F to C looks like this...] e ------------| B --1--1--1---| G --2--0--0---| D --3--3--2---| A --3--3--3---| E ------------| [which sounds very nice, and is used throughout the song.] [Verse 1] C Em F C Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun F C G And the days blur into one F C And the backs of my eyes F C G hum with things I've never done Sheets are swaying from an old clothesline Like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass Was never much but we've made the most [The two notes he plays on both syllables of "welcome" are F# and F (without the capo), or the third fret, followed by the second, of the A string] [Chorus] C B Am F C Welcome hoooooome (you get the idea) Am F C hoooooome Am F C hoooooome Am F C hoooooome [Verse 2] Ships are launching from my chest Some have names but most do not If you find one, please let me know what piece I've lost Heal the scars from off my back I don't need them anymore You can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars [Chorus] C B Am F C I've come hoooome Am F C hoooooome Am F C hoooooome Am F C hoooooome Am F C All my nightmares escaped my head Am F C Bar the door, please don't let them in Am F C You were never supposed to leave Am F C Now my head's splitting at the seams F C G And I don't know if I can Am C F Em Am C F Em F C G F C G F C G Am C G Here, beneath my lungs, I feel your thumbs press in-to my skin again F Am F Am F Am [Ends on an unresolved D#m (without capo), which is pretty ballsy]
