xSpeed Trials
Standard tuning (for once!)
[Intro]
Play two times
e|-------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------|
D|---2-2-2-2---------------------------------|
A|--------------------0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2--------|
E|------------3-3-3-3------------------------|
[Verse 1]
C Am
He's pleased to meet you underneath the horse
C Am
In the cathedral with the glass stained black
C Am
Singing sweet high notes that echo back
Ab G7
To destroy their master
C Am
May be a long time till you get the call-up
C Am
But it's sure as fate and hard as your luck
C Ab G D
No-one'll know where you are
[Chorus]
C Am Fmaj7 G
It's just a brief smile crossing your face
C Am Fmaj7 G
Running speed trials standing in place
[Verse 2]
C Am
When the socket's not a shock enough
C Am
You little child what makes you think you're tough?
C Am
When all the people you think you're above
Ab G7
They all know what's the matter
C Am
You're such a pinball yeah you know it's true
C Am
There's always something you go back running to
C Ab G D
To follow the path of no resistance
[Chorus]
C Am Fmaj7 G
It's just a brief smile crossing your face
C Am Fmaj7 G
Running speed trials standing in place
Am F C G
It's just a brief smile crossing your face
Am F C G
Running speed trials all over the place
[Ending]
Play these chords to fade-out while Elliott sings "Oooh-ooh-ohh", etc.:
Am F C G
During the part where the words are "No one'll know where you are", you might try:
Ab Eb F G
No one'll know where you are
Same for "To follow the path of no resistance"
Neither one is completely right, I don't think, but maybe each is part right.
Speed Trials
Elliott Smith
Standard tuning (for once!)
Standard open chords except:
Am (1) x02210 Am (2) 577555
Dadd9 xx0230
[Intro] (played twice) (this is also played as the bassline under the C
and Am chords in the verse)
e| ------------------ ---------------------|
B| ------------------ ---------------------|
G| ------------------ ---------------------|
D| 2-2-2-2-------- ------------------------|
A| ------------------ 0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2------|
E| ---------3-3-3-3 ------------------------|
* Lick in verse (bass plays a G but it don't add it to the guitar
line, it sounds cluttered)
e| --------------------|
B| --------------------|
G|-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-------|
D|---------------------|
A|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-------|
E|---------------------|
[Verse]
|| C | Am (1) | C | Am | C | Am |
* |
| C | Am | C | Am | Am (2) | Ab |
* ||
[Chorus 1]
||: C | Dadd9 | Fmaj7 | G :||
[Chorus 2]
||: C | Dadd9 | Fmaj7 | G :||
||: A | Fmaj7 | C | G :||
[Outro]
||: Am | Fmaj7 | C | G :||
