Beautiful song off of Andrew Bird's latest album "Are you Serious". To my ear it sounds
best played with barre chords with the C and Em frequently open. Amazingly, the track on
the album was recorded in a single take by Blake Mills on guitar - play around with hammer
on the A and E strings to emulate his wonderful playing style.
[Intro]
G (pluck the open low E string then Hammer on into a Barre G to sound like the recording)
[Whistling Bit]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Verse]
Am G F
I keep hearing a vicious rumor
G Dm Em
From the back rooms, to the alleys, to the avenues
Am G F
That you lost your sense of humor
G F C
And the first place you look is the soles of your shoes
Am G F
And I watch these ice fields melt into the sea
G Dm Em
Warming you're oceans to centuries
Am G F
Will your saline waters bring you back to me?
G F C
Oh the weight is bringing me to my knees
[Chorus]
Dm C G F
Chemical switches thrown in the dark
G Dm C
All it takes is a spark to begin
Dm C G F
And can you tell which is a one with a mark?
G Dm C
That Bleeds through the clothes to the skin
[Whistling Interlude]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Verse]
Am G F G Dm Em
Too long I keep searching the alleys and avenues
Am G F
But it seems I'm doing it wrong
G F C
For I've seen neither hide nor hair of you
[Humming/Singing Interlude]
Am G F
G Dm Em
Am G F
G F C
[Bridge]
F C G F
And it's a short short walk from pebbles to bricks
G F
From stones back to sticks
G
We're lowering the boiling point
Dm C G F
And as time goes by, gets harder to fix
G F G C
It's a volatile mix, like hydrogen and oxygen
[Chorus]
Dm C G F
Chemical switches thrown in the dark
G Dm C
All it takes is a spark to begin
