xThis is my Tab for Passion Pit's debut album "Manners". I hope you love this album as
as I do. The chords are all pretty simple, and there are almost no tabs in this entire
Well, enjoy!
1. Make Light
2. Little Secrets
3. Moth's Wings
4. The Reeling
5. Eyes as Candles
6. Swimming in the Flood
7. Folds in Your Hands
8. To Kingdom Come
9. Sleepyhead
10. Let Your Love Grow Tall
11. Seaweed Song
1. Make Light
Intro: G
Verse 1:
G
So now we see
G G7
Comes burying my burnt remains
G7
These puddled clouds
G6 G
Oh I, I understand now
G
But darkness falls likes shattered pieces
G7
Dangling, shimmering
G6
Torn and tattered yet crowned
G6 G
Oh I'll not be told "No" to "No More!"
Refrain: G
Verse 2:
G
You must believe to hear me sing these
G7 G6
Messy morsels of my self-assuring love
G6 G
Oh it's painful kneading
G
Yes, I lie and I wrangle with prospective angles
G G7 G6
That glare me down and face me with all I do wrong
G6 G
Why do they all look like me?
Chorus:
G Am C G
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
G F Em
Just to prove I'm alive
Em Am
And it's alright
Am C G
Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light
F Em C
Of my treacherous life
Refrain:
G
Verse 3:
G
If I had hands I'd hold up high
G7 G6
My lofty dreams and my alibi's real name
G6 G
But I have no strength
G
So I toss and I turn and I spit in the urn
G G7
There's a ghost in your eye
G7 G6
There is someone that knows more than I
G
But I'm quick to deny
Chorus:
G Am C G
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
G F Em
Just to prove I'm alive
Em Am
And it's alright
Am C G
Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light
F Em
Of my treacherous life
Em C
Make Light!
Outro: G
2. Little Secrets
Intro: Bb F C Dm
Bb C Am Dm
Bb F C Dm
Bb C Am Dm
Verse 1:
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
When I came down the dawn poured into me
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
I shook 'em up, the walls came crumbling
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
My thin skin trembling with these salty wounds
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
My stolen gold inside the emperors tomb
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
Now painting rainbows on my ugly face
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
I built this cardboard neighborhood's disgrace
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
But I ascend and serve my feverish need
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
Within the confines of such chemistry
Pre-Chorus:
F Bb
It's the way I see
Bb Dm
Everything I need
Dm C
It's the way to be
Chorus:
Bb F
Let this be our little secret
C Dm
No one needs to know we're feeling
Bb C
Higher and higher and higher
Am Dm
Higher and higher and higher
Dm Bb F
But I feel alive and I feel it in me
C Dm
up and up I keep on climbing
Bb C
Higher and higher and higher
Am Dm
Higher and higher and higher
Refrain: Bb F Am Dm
Bb F Am Dm
Gm9 Am7 Bb
Verse 2:
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
My face blew up at such a casual sight
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
The smattered colors of ecstatic fright
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
The rush above me to oblivion
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
Outlining wet sidewalks with halogen
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
Oh have you ever felt so goddamned strong?
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
How come it takes some people so damn long
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
He turned to squeeze the lemon juice to rain
Bb C Gm9 Am7 Bb
The citrus drawing out the scene it stains
Pre-Chorus:
F Bb
Watch the basin drain
Bb Dm
As your life lines wane
Dm C
And you cant explain
C Bb
As your friends complain
F Bb
You've caused all this pain
Bb Dm
And you proudly shame
Dm C
Your whole family's name
Chorus:
Bb F
Let this be our little secret
C Dm
No one needs to know we're feeling
Bb C
Higher and higher and higher
Am Dm
Higher and higher and higher
Dm Bb F
But I feel alive and I feel it in me
C Dm
Ip and up I keep on climbing
Bb C
Higher and higher and higher
Am Dm
Higher and higher and higher
Bridge:
Bb F
Mother I can tell what you've been thinking
F C
staring at the stars on your ceiling
C Dm
Thinking once there was a power that you were wielding
Dm C
And now I've hit the mark
C Am
Stabbing at the dark
Am Dm C Bb
And I cannot help but ignore the people staring at my scars
Chorus:
Bb F
Let this be our little secret
C Dm
No one needs to know we're feeling
Bb C
Higher and higher and higher
Am Dm
Higher and higher and higher
Dm Bb F
But I feel alive and I feel it in me
C Dm
up and up I keep on climbing
Bb C
Higher and higher and higher
Am Dm
Higher and higher and higher
3. Moth's Wings
Intro Riff:
e|-------4---6-------4---------|
B|---4-7---------4-7-----4-----|
G|-4-------6-----------6-------| x2
D|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
E|-----------------------------|
Intro Chords: B G#m
B G#m
Verse 1:
B C#m G#m
Dear friend, as you know
G#m
Your flowers are withering
B C#m G#m
Your mother's gone missing
G#m
Your leaves have drifted away
B C#m G#m
But the clouds are clearing up
G#m
And I've come reveling
B C#m G#m
Burning incandescently
G#m
Like a bastard on the burning sea
Chorus: (Lead Guitar plays intro riff)
B G#m
You're just like your father
G#m
Buried deep under the water
B G#m
Your resting on your laurel
G#m
And stepping on my toes
B C#m G#m
Whose side are you on?
G#m
What side is this anyway?
B C#m G#m
Put down your sword and crown
G#m
Come lay with me on the ground
Verse 2:
B C#m G#m
You come beating like moth's wings
G#m
Spastic and violently
B C#m G#m
Whipping me into a storm
G#m
Shaking me down to the core
B C#m G#m
But you run away from me
G#m
And you left me shimmering
B C#m G#m
Like diamond wedding rings
G#m
Spinning dizzily down on the floor
Chorus: (Lead Guitar plays intro riff)
B G#m
You're just like your father
G#m
Buried deep beneath the water
B G#m
Your pressing on your laurel
G#m
Is stepping on my toes
B C#m G#m
Whose side are you on?
G#m
What side is this anyway?
B C#m G#m
Put down your sword and crown
G#m B
Come lay with me on the ground
Bridge: B
Chorus: (Lead Guitar plays intro riff)
B G#m
You're just like your father
G#m
Buried deep beneath the water
B G#m
Your pressing on your laurel
G#m
Is stepping on my toes
B C#m G#m
Whose side are you on?
G#m
What side is this anyway?
B C#m G#m
Put down your sword and crown
G#m B
Come lay with me on the ground
End On: B
4. The Reeling
Intro (Pt. 1): Fmaj7 Cmaj7
Fmaj7 Cmaj7
Fmaj7 Cmaj7
Fmaj7 Cmaj7
Intro (Pt. 2): Dm F Am G
Dm F Am G
Verse 1:
Dm F Am G
We dug these holes we crawled into now they're my home
Dm F Am G
Now here I cannot feel the wind, cant feel the rain or cold
Dm F Am
And I believe in gentle harmony
Am G
Well how I loathe all this obscenity!
Dm F Am
Is this the way my life has got to be?
Am G
Have I a single opportunity?
Chorus:
Fmaj7
Look at me Oh look at me is this the way I'll always be
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
Now I pray that somebody will swiftly come and kidnap me
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
Everyday I lie awake and pray to god today's the day
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
But Here I am Oh here I am Oh when will someone understand?
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Refrain: Dm F Am G
Dm F Am G
Verse 2:
Dm F Am G
And all at once I feel this, Oh how it clings to me
Dm F Am G
It reels and calls me towards some confounding destiny
Dm F Am
And I can feel the madness inch by inch
Am G
The more I run the more I am convinced
Dm F Am
I've colored all these like the branch's twist
Am G
Just like we settle in the frothy mist
Chorus:
Fmaj7
Look at me Oh look at me is this the way I'll always be
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
Now I pray that somebody will swiftly come and kidnap me
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
Everyday I lie awake and pray to god today's the day
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
But Here I am Oh here I am Oh when will someone understand?
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Brigde: Am F G Dm F G
Chorus:
Fmaj7
Look at me Oh look at me is this the way I'll always be?
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
Now I pray that somebody will swiftly come and kidnap me
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
Everyday I lie awake and pray to god today's the day
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
Fmaj7
But Here I am Oh here I am Oh when will someone understand?
Cmaj7
Oh No, Oh No
5. Eyes as Candles
Intro:
Cmaj7 Bm7 Em7
Cmaj7 D Bm7
Em7
Verse:
Cmaj7
My world astir and sickly
Bm7 Em7
Spits out our voices singing,
Cmaj7 D
"Tra la la" on high now
Bm7 Em7
To kingdom come so slightly.
Cmaj7
Herein the void in your place,
Bm7 Em7
I twitch and tweak in allusion
Cmaj7 D
To sit and stare so blankly
Bm7 Em7
Until all hope is used up
Chorus:
Cmaj7 Bm7 D
Why do I always need to need you when you're fleeting?
Cmaj7 Bm7 D
Where do you go when I'm around?
Cmaj7 Bm7 D
What have I done? What have I lost that's so defeating?
Cmaj7 Bm7 D
And have the nerve to wear the crown?
Refrain:
Oh
Cmaj7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Bm7 Em7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Cmaj7 D
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Bm7 Em7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Verse
Em7 Cmaj7
In Some dark room:
Cmaj7 Bm7
A smoky figure fills me full,
Bm7 Em7 Cmaj7
Makes my head swell in ruin.
D Bm7
My family kneels at their pew,
Bm7 Em7 Cmaj7
They nod, "We believe in what you're doing!"
Cmaj7 Bm7
I feel it rise above me,
Em7
The western landscapes towering,
Cmaj7 D
And from my shell of a body
Bm7 Em7
The flowers blossom for picking.
Chorus:
Cmaj7 Bm7 D
Why do I always need to need you when you're fleeting?
Cmaj7 Bm7 D
Where do you go when I'm around?
Cmaj7 Bm7 D
What have I done? What have I lost that's so defeating?
Cmaj7 Bm7 D
And have the nerve to wear the crown?
Refrain:
Oh
Cmaj7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Bm7 Em7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Cmaj7 D
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Bm7 Em7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Cmaj7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Bm7 Em7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Cmaj7 D
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Bm7 Em7
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Bridge:
N.C.
I've waited and waited for someone to take it.
N.C.
Don't fight it, don't bother an inch for another.
N.C.
Don't listen, don't hear them, they're in this together.
N.C.
I 've learned well, now hear me, there's much to be fearing.
N.C.
I'm used to your absence, your faceless distraction.
Cmaj7
I've painted your patterns but found them attractive.
Bm7 Em7
Now I have been leaning towards a life far more candid,
Bm7 Cmaj7 D
Though led through the dark with your eyes as my candles,
Bm7 Em7
Where your life, and my life, directions can wrangle.
Cmaj7
And all of a sudden you've left me to handle
Bm7 Em7
The reasons that never forbid me to stand tall.
Em7 Cmaj7 D
And somehow or somewhere I found out the secret -
Bm7 Em7
To sting alive without actually breathing.
6. Swimming in the flood
Intro: Dm C Bbmaj7
Verse 1:
Dm C Bbmaj7 C Dm
My eyes have once again been proven wrong
Dm C Bbmaj7 C Dm C Bbmaj7
Your clouds, your blanket and my pity song
C Dm C Bbmaj7
Hovering on your front lawn
C Bbmaj7
Carry on until it's gone
Chorus:
Bbmaj7 C
What can I do?
C Am Bbmaj7
The river's overrun
Bbmaj7 C Am
We're swimming in a flood, you know?
Bbmaj7 C
I thought I felt your touch
C Am Bbmaj7
But the water's rising up
Verse 2:
Dm C Bbmaj7 C Dm
Then I lie naked in a rampage
Dm C Bbmaj7 C Dm
In the flesh, face to face with the onset
C Bbmaj7 C Dm
I forget everything that's ever made me
Dm C Bbmaj7
Rise again
C Bbmaj7
Now slowly leave my memory
Chorus:
Bbmaj7 C
What can I do?
C Am Bbmaj7
The river's overrun
Bbmaj7 C Am
We're swimming in a flood, you know?
Bbmaj7 C
I thought I felt your touch
C Am Bbmaj7
But the water's rising up
Bbmaj7 C
What can I do?
C Am Bbmaj7
The river's overrun
Bbmaj7 C Am
We're swimming in a flood, you know?
Bbmaj7 C
I thought I felt your touch
C Am Bbmaj7
But the water's rising up
7. Folds in Your Hands
Verse 1:
Cm7
Leave me alone
Cm7
Leave me alone
Cm7
Leave me alone
Fm7
I'm fine
Fm7 Gm7 Cm7
I'll be fine until the morning comes
Cm7 Fm7 Gm7
Then unmask me in the blistering sun
Cm7
Oh let me go
Cm7
just let me go
Cm7
just let me go
Fm7
Or I'll
Gm7 Cm7
Burst in front of your eyes
Fm7 Gm7
Then collect myself from the ground
Cm7
And when I go
Cm7
And when I go
Cm7
Just let me go
Fm7
Like a light
Gm7 Cm7
Flickering out in the skies
Cm7 Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7
Lost as fast as was found
Chorus:
Abmaj7 Cm
Wooooo-oo
Bb Abmaj7
Everything's easy when you never have to choose
Abmaj7 Cm Bb
With the balance has shifting we're forced to lose
Bb Abmaj7 Cm Bb
Like the sun and the moon I will circle you til you bloom
Bb Abmaj7 Cm Bb
I will crush I will maul I will burn until I get to you
Cm7 Fm7 Gm7 x2
Verse 2:
Gm7 Cm7
Lay low
Cm7 Fm7
Dont let me know what is real
Fm7 Gm7 Cm7
Will they quietly follow me here?
Cm7 Fm7 Gm7
Take me as their own?
Cm7 Fm7
Now I will hold you I will keep you up and show my love
Fm7 Gm7 Cm7
Until it folds in my hands
Cm7 Fm7 Gm7 Abmaj7
But I'll build it back to the top
Chorus:
Abmaj7 Cm
Wooooo-oo
Bb Abmaj7
Everything's easy when you never have to choose
Abmaj7 Cm Bb
With the balance has shifting we're forced to lose
Bb Abmaj7 Cm Bb
Like the sun and the moon I will circle you til you bloom
Bb Abmaj7 Cm Bb
I will crush I will maul I will burn until I get to you
Cm7 Fm7 Gm7 x2
Cm7
Feel it rain
Cm7
Feel it rain
Fm7
We're alive
Gm7
Feel it rain
End On: Cm7
8. To Kingdom Come
Intro
E C#m x4
Verse 1:
E C#m
That's a frosty way to speak,
E C#m
To tell me how to live next to your potpourri
E C#m
All this talking pulls my teeth.
E C#m
I believed in you, so you believed in
Chorus:
E C#m
Me, I cried out "God!"
C#m E
You dared me in the dark
E C#m E
I felt a hush fall quietly from my spark
E C#m E
So now I hide in piles of princely orange peels
E C#m
It feels the way you told me how it'd always feel..
Verse 2:
E C#m
Once I had an name to claim
E C#m E
I scraped along the walls like an orthodox saint.
E C#m
I wish for the same old things
E C#m
That turned me inside out.
C#m F#m B
Knealing in such pain, it's a game!
Chorus:
E C#m
Me, I cried out "God!"
C#m E
You dared me in the dark
E C#m E
I felt a hush fall quietly from my spark
E C#m E
So now I hide in piles of princely orange peels
E C#m
It feels the way you told me how it'd always feel..
Verse 3:
E C#m
Never have I ever been
E C#m E
Clutching at your hair to cure you of some sin,
E C#m
But that's the kind of state I'm in:
E C#m
Swimming in a pool of godly medicine.
A B
"Come, come," I hear it calling me, yelling,
B E D C#m F#m
Like if ever there was someone who could make things heavy again.
F#m B
Feel alright!
Chorus:
E C#m
Me, I cried out "God!"
C#m E
You dared me in the dark
E C#m E
I felt a hush fall quietly from my spark
E C#m E
So now I hide in piles of princely orange peels
E C#m
It feels the way you told me how it'd always feel..
E C#m
Me, I cried out "God"
C#m E
You dared me in the dark
E C#m E
I felt a hush fall quietly from my spark
E C#m E
So now I hide in piles of princely orange peels
E C#m
It feels the way you told me how it'd always feel..
9. Sleepyhead
Intro: G D Cmaj7 (x8)
Verse 1:
Cmaj7 Em D Cmaj7 Em
And you said it was like fire around the brim
D Cmaj7 Em D
Burning solid burning thin the burning rim
D Cmaj7 Em D
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
D Cmaj7 Em D
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
D Cmaj7 Em D
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
D Cmaj7 Em D Cmaj7
I dragged you back a sleepyhead
Cmaj7 Em D Cmaj7
Sleepyhead
Refrain: G D Cmaj7 (x4)
Em D
Verse 2:
D Cmaj7 Em D
They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
D Cmaj7 Em D
With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst
D Cmaj7 Em D
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
D Cmaj7 Em D
Against the walls against your rules against your skin
D Cmaj7 Em D
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
D Cmaj7 Em D Cmaj7
Of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead
Cmaj7 Em D Cmaj7
Sleepyhead
Refrain: G D Cmaj7 (x4)
Outro: Em D Cmaj7
10. Let Your Love Grow Tall
Verse 1:
G D/F#
In pastures blue and green
D/F# G D/F# A
I'll follow you and you'll follow me
A G D/F#
My fabric's mystery
D/F# G D/F#
I'll wave your loyalty in the freezing
A Bm G D
Breeze so desperately
Pre-Chorus:
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
Verse 2:
D G D/F#
I think I see see my life
D/F# G D/F# A
He bows all slyly and gentle-like
D/F# G D/F#
He's never had the right
D/F# G D/F#
But I've never lived without
A Bm G D
His sad and jealous eyes
Pre-Chorus:
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
Chorus:
D
They'd say,
A Bm G
"Let your love grow tall."
A Bm G
"Let your love grow tall."
G A Bm
Tall as the grass in the meadow?
Bm G
Or the dunes on the shore?
G A Bm
Like the buildings in the city?
Bm G
And your children on the floor?
Refrain:
Bm G D
Bm G D
Bm G D
Bm G D
Verse 3:
D G D/F#
But it's the thought that counts
D/F# G D/F# A
No Quiet minds don't know their worth
A G D/F#
They know not what to do
D/F# G D/F# A
So Ill pray for them and I'll pray for you
A Bm G D
Till my face turns blue
Chorus:
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
D Bm G D
And Another one comes down
Chorus:
D
They'd say.
A Bm G
"Let your love grow tall."
A Bm G
"Let your love grow tall."
G A Bm
Tall as the grass in the meadow?
Bm G
Or the dunes on the shore?
G A Bm
Like the buildings in the city?
Bm G
And your children on the floor?
G A Bm
Like the darkness in the forest?
Bm G
Like my frightened worried eyes?
G A Bm
Or the roots in the soil?
Bm G
Are these skies telling lies?
11. Seaweed Song
Verse 1:
G Am7 Cadd9
Some day you'll see
G
Surrounded by angels
Am7 Cadd9 G
Floating atop of the sea
G Am7 Cadd9
On Bended knee
G
Don't go where they go
Am7 C
Don't sing all the songs they sing
Chorus:
Am C G
Nobody knows you the way you know you
D
But I think I do
Am C G
But I thought I knew
D
Yeah, I thought I knew
Am C G
Nobody knows you the way you know you
D
But I think I do
Am C G
But I thought I knew
D
Yeah, I thought I knew
Verse 2:
G Am7 Cadd9
Between these walls
G Am7 Cadd9
Her bark-stripped limbs casts shadows frighteningly tall
G Am7 Cadd9
I slow to a crawl
G Am7 Cadd9
I jump and I yell and she hears nothing at all
Chorus:
Am C G
Nobody knows you the way you know you
D
But I think I do
Am C G
But I thought I knew
D
Yeah, I thought I knew
Am C G
Nobody knows you the way you know you
D
But I think I do
Am C G
But I thought I knew
D
Yeah, I thought I knew
Bridge:
F Em
Stay, stay the same
Em G F
'Cause everything else will change
F Em
And I'll always be to blame
G F
So please just stay the same
F Em
The current has pulled me in
G F
The tide has reached my chin
F Em
The seaweed tickled skin
G F
Just let the water win
F Em
I'm freezing to the bone
G F
You'll never feel at home
F Em
Just watch your body go
G
Just watch your body go
Chorus:
Am C G
Nobody knows you the way you know you
D
But I think I do
Am C G
But I thought I knew
D
Yeah, I thought I knew
Am C G
Nobody knows you the way you know you
D
But I think I do
Am C G
But I thought I knew
D
Yeah, I thought I knew
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