This is how I play this fantastic song. Some tweaks and re-shaping for a smooth rendition.
(Formatted for a 2 page hard copy)Enjoy. Comments and corrections?
Armchairs
Andrew Bird
Intro:
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A|-3------0------2------0-------3---|
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Riff:
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B|----------------------------|---------------------|-------------|
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D|----------------------------|---------------------|--------2----|
A|-------0-0---2-2------------|---2/3--2--0-----2---|----0-2---3--|
E|-3-3---------------0-0---3--|-3-----------3-------|--3----------|
C G
I dreamed you were a cosmonaut ---- of the space between our chairs
C G
And I was a cartographer ---- of the tangles in your hair
Fmaj7
I sighed a song that silence brings - It's the one that everybody
C
knows, everybody knows -- the song that silence sings
G
And this is how it goes
Intro -> then riff over lyrics:
C G
These looms that weave apocrypha ---- they're hanging from a strand
C G
The dark and empty rooms were full ---- of incandescent hands
Fmaj7
awkward pause(paws) - a fatal flaw - Time, it's a crooked bow
C
Time is a crooked bow
C G
In time you need to learn, to love - The ebb just like the flow
D7 B7 Em
Grab hold of your bootstraps, and pull like hell
E Am D
until gravity feels sorry for you, and lets you go
G C C/B
As if you lack the proper chemicals to know, oh
Am Bm Fmaj7
the way it felt the last time you let yourself - fall this low
Fmaj7 C
Time, Oh time - it’s a crooked bow
C/G F C/G
Time's a crooked bow - Time, it's a crooked bow
F G
Fifty-five and three-eighths years later
F G F G
At the bottom of a gigantic crater - An armchair calls to you
F G
Yeah, this armchair calls to you
C Cmaj7
It says, someday, we'll get back at them all
G
With epoxy and a pair of pliers
C Cmaj7
As ancient sea slugs begin to crawl
G
through the ragweed and barbed wire
C G F
You didn't write - You didn't call --- It didn't cross your mind
G C G
at all - and through the waves --- waves of A.M. squall
F G Fmaj7
You couldn't feel a thing at all - Fifty-five and three-eighths
Fmaj7
tall - Fifty-five and three-eighths tall …time --- time
Fmaj7 = XX3210
B7 = X2120X
Cmaj7 = X32000
Walk up - G to C Walk down - C to G
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E|-3----------| |----------3-|
