The Hotelier - Piano Player
So the intro to this song comprises what is pretty much played throughout the whole song, so I tabbed it out
pretty thoroughly so you get a good idea of what (I think) they're playing. the +-+- meter above is for
timing, with the '+' signs representing quarter notes. Keep in mind they play in half-step down tuning. Also,
some of these chord names are pretty strange, so just try to stick to the diagrams I've tabbed out.
Tuning: half-step down
Intro:
(verse)
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
eb|---------------------------------|
Bb|-3-------3-------3-------3-------|
Gb|-0-------0-------0-------0-------|
Db|-2-------0-------0-------2-------|
Ab|-3-------2-------x-------0-------|
Eb|-----------------3---------------|
(chorus pt 1)
G A7sus4 F Cadd9 G/B F
+ - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + -
eb|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|-3-----------3-----1-------------3-------3-------1---------------|
Gb|-0-----------0-----2-------------0-------0-------2---------------|
Db|-0-----------2-----3-------------2-------0-------3---------------|
Ab|-2-----------0-----3-------------3-------2-------3---------------|
Eb|-3-----------------1-----------------------------1---------------|
(chorus pt 2)
F Gadd11 C/A Gadd11/B
+ - + - + - + - + - + - + - + -
eb|--------------------------------|
Bb|-1-------1-------1-------1------|
Gb|-2-------0-------0-------0------| the Gadd11/B rings out for a bit, then switches back to Cadd9
Db|-3-------0-------2-------0------|
Ab|-3-------2-------0-------2------|
Eb|-1-------3----------------------|
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
Inside your room there’s 40 few
remaining figures of new moons
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
to curve around your axle heart
in hopes that something new will start.
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
They’re winding down they’re closing ranks to rest another 30 days.
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
You lay and watch them wax and glow.
You hold them in your hand and let them...
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
A kid half my age, baby’s breath and meadow sage clutched in her
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
hands like trophy game, just like the wild world was tame, was granted
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
home and tender care into an awkward piece of ware three-quarters
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
full or quarter-drained and both adversely sure how long they will
G A7sus4 F Cadd9 G/B F
sustain_________ sustain__________ x2
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
My eyes greet hers and hers do mine and then the room becomes her shrine.
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
An older ma'am sets herself straight and then she smiles with 88 remembered
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
loves and morning suns until her woven was sung. Her fingers
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
dropped like falling rain. The entire room awash with the
G A7sus4 F Cadd9 G/B F
sustain_________ sustain__________ x2
F Gadd11 C/A Gadd11/B
sustain________________________ x4
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
You always said that you don’t dance but then a heel turn to a shadow stance.
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
I’m rung like sodden cloth. And the autumn leaves turn over across your
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
floor,into the hall and I’ve declined into a crawl and you
Cadd9 G/B G A7sus4
decompress and fall away but this floor is raised on beams of trust and there’s
G A7sus4
room enough for both of us so
G A7sus4 F Cadd9 G/B F
stay sustain__________
G A7sus4 F Cadd9 G/B F
sustain_________ sustain__________ x6
(Inside your room there’s 40 few
remaining figures of new moons
to curve around your axle heart
in hopes that something new will start.
The things you grow are set to die.
You cling to them with knuckles white.
So wind me up, damper to floor
and I don’t know if I know love no more.)
F Gadd11 C/A Gadd11/B
and I don’t know if I know love no more x4
end with Cadd9
