Silver Jews – American Water chords
Chords:
I know that the chords are already here, but some are missing and some of them are adequate at best. So I figured I would do a proper list of chords/tabs, if not for everyone else, for myself. It's not intended to completely transcribe the album, it's more of a sit around and singalong sort of thing. Enjoy. --- RANDOM RULESC Em FIn 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction. Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake. I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake.Dm Fmaj7I know you like to line dance,Dm Fmaj7Everything so democratic and cool,Dm Fmaj7 CBut baby there's no guidance when random rules.C Em FI know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls.Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls. But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed and that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said:Dm Fmaj7"Yeah, you look like someoneDm Fmaj7Yeah you look like someone who up and left me low.Dm Fmaj7 CBoy, you look like somene I used to know."[PLAY VERSE CHORDS DURING SOLO]C Em FI asked the painter why the roads are colored black.He said, "Steve, it's because people leave and no highway will bring them back." So if you don't want me I promise not to linger, But before I go I gotta ask you dear about the tan line on your ring finger.Dm Fmaj7No one should have two lives,Dm Fmaj7now you know my middle names are wrong and right.Dm Fmaj7 CHoney we've got two lives to give tonight.--- SMITH & JONES FOREVERAm FAre you honest when no one's looking?Am FCan you summon honey from a telephone?Am FThey sat there with their hooks in the waterAm Eand their moustaches caked with airplane food.Am FO come let us adore themAm FCalifornia overboardAm Fwhen the sun sets on the ghetto all the broken stuff gets cold.CHORUS:G AmSmith and Jones forever!G AmSmith and Jones forever!G Am F Am FSmith and Jones forever together forever and ever.Am FBuild a stage for Autumn's bitch.Am FThey walk the alleys in duct tape shoes.Am FThey see the things they need through the windows of a hatchbackAm EThe alleys are the footnotes of the avenues.Am Fo come let us adore themAm FCalifornia overboardAm Fholding up their trousers with extension cords.(chorus)Am FI've got two tickets to a midnight execution.We'll hitchhike our way from Odessa to Houston and when they turn on the chair something's added to the air when they turn on the chairAm F G Amsomething's added to the air forever(chorus) --- NIGHT SOCIETY I'm not going to get too deep with this one, it's just riffs and whatnot over this progression: C D Em D C And you hold the last C. If somebody wants to tab it, go ahead, but I can't really imagine too many people being pissed that they miss out on playing this one. --- FEDERAL DUST (slide up to A, then G) Bass riff (I just play it on guitar):|-------------|-------------||-------------|--------2----||--------2-4--|----------4--||--0-2h4------|--0-2h4------| repeat as necessaryC#m F# Bbm E C#They don't walk, and they don't talk in Malibu.F# B Ebm AThey don't vote, and they don't smoke.EI know you're blue...F#I know you're blue...C#mI know you're blue.BASS RIFFC#m F# Bbm E C#They don't cream and they don't dream in Kansas City.F# B Ebm AThey don't crack, they don't, they never actEI know you're ready...F#I know you're ready...C#mI know you're ready.SOLO OVER VERSE CHORDSC#m F# Bbm E C#They don't cry and they don't die in South Dakota.F# B Ebm A EThey don't match and they don't hatch in South Dakota.F#In South DakotaC#mHere comes the coda:C#m ANot muchE F# A water coming over the hill...F#Not muchANot muchC#mNot much.With the verses in this song whenever the Bbm is played there tends to be a hammering on between a Bbmsus2 and the Bbm. If you know what that means, good. If you don't, well, it's not really that important. --- PEOPLE The verse Emaj7 in this song is played as this: xxx444 VERSEAmaj7 - Emaj7Moments can be monuments to youIf your life is interesting and true. It's just the same for a man or a girl, The meaning of the world lies outside thw world. People love people and they understand if you wanna renovate your background mind (a federal woman needs a municipal man) people gotta synchronize to animal time.E B7 You can't change the feelingE B7 E B7but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two...(hold b7) EPeople always come around.E B7 I'm studying the ceiling on a little afternoonE B7 and when I paint my dining roomEpeople gonna come around.Amaj7 - Emaj7I love to see a rainbow from a garden hoselit up like the blood of a centerfold I love the city and the city rain, suburban kids with biblical names. People ask people to watch their scotch. People send people up to the moon. When they return, well there isn't much. People be careful not to crest too soon.E B7 The drums march along at the clip of an I.V. dripE B7 like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip.EI really hope you'll come around.E B7 E B7 It's sunny and 75. It feels so good to be alive.E B7 come on baby don't stay inside.EEverybody's coming out tonight.And repeat the verse chords. --- BLUE ARRANGEMENTS UNUSUAL CHORDS: Ebm*: x6780x B*: x24445 Bmaj7:x2434xB Bmaj7 B7I see you gracefully swimming with the country club womenE C#m Bin the Greenwood southside society pool.A EI love your amethyst eyes and your protestant thighsB F#you're a shimmering socialite jewel.B Bmaj7 B7From the Carbon Dioxide Riding AcademyE B C#m Bto the children's crusade marching through the downtown.A EWell I think I'd die see, if you just said hi to me.B F#When something breaks it makes a beautiful sound.ESometimes I feel like I'm watching the worldand the world isn't watching me back. But when I see you, I know I'm in it too.BThe waves come in and the waves go back.EThe kids in the corner all covered in dirt.Caught trespassing under the moon. My father came in from wherever he'd beenBand kicked my shit all over the room.AAll over the roomEAll over the room.B Ebm* A Am EE Ebm*The room is dark and heavy with what I want to say.A EI see murals in the radio static and on your blue blue jeans.B* Ebm*What would you say if I asked you to run away?A EIt's been done so many times I hardly know what it means.REPEAT THIS PROGRESSION OVER SOLOE Ebm*I took these blue arrangements and threw them in the seaA Ewhen older waves from older caves brought them back to me.B* Ebm*I took these blue arrangements and stored them on a shelf.A EWith change on the mantle and time in a candle,Ein the end a boy raises himself.REPEAT PROGRESSION OVER SOLO --- WE ARE REAL UNUSUAL CHORDS: F#/D7: 2x0212C G C FUp the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left,C G F G Cand I will see you soon my friend if these old directions still direct.F G C If these old directions still direct.C G C FIs the problem that we can't see or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?C G The birds of Virginia are flying within youF G Cand like background singers they all come in threes.F G CAnd like background singers they all come in threes.DmWon't soul music changeC C7now that our souls have turned strange.F F#/D7Once a day, twice a day...DmAnd when on and off collideC C7 Fwe'll set our souls aside and walk away.A DmWe've been raised on replicas of fake and winding roadsG and day after day up on this beautiful stageEmwe've been playing tambourine for minimum wageAm Em Ambut we are real, I know we are real.C G C FRepair is the dream of the broken thing.C GLike a message broadcast on an overpassF G Call my favorite singers couldn't sing.F G CAll my favorite singers couldn't sing.C G C My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrorsFand they help me see,C G that everything in this room right nowF G Cis a part of me.F G Cis a part of me.DmWon't soul music changeC C7now that our souls have turned strange.F F#/D7Once a day, twice a day...DmAnd when on and off collideC C7 Fwe'll set our souls aside and walk away.A DmRealizing is how it feels inside when it happens to you.G So I took a shot of sugar like snow dumped into the bloodEmand children wander off into the ultra-economicAm Em Ambut we are real I know we are real.--- SEND IN THE CLOUDSEm (chromatic runup) GSend in the clouds. Bring down the rain.D CShut all the blinds, turn out the lights:G D CI feel insane when you get in my bed.Em GI am the trick my mother played on the worldD CSeventeen doctors couldn't decideG D Cwhether I should be allowed in the game.Cadd9 - C Amsus4-AmFmaj7 C DWhy can't monsters get along with other monsters?A E ASoi disantra, soi disantra...Em GI know a puppy who walked form Kentucky.D CMade to East Virginia by dawn.G D CHe had seventeen ideas in his head.Em GWindex tears flow down the robot's face. He never felt a mother's embrace.He's never felt a lover's embrace.D CMy momma named me after a king.G D CI'm gonna bury my name in you.Fmaj7 C DWhy can't monsters get along with other monsters?A E Soi disantra, soi disantra...Athey don't wanta.C (C, C#) D AWhy can't monsters get along with other monsters?Fmaj7 D ASoi disantra, soi disantra, yeahFmaj7 D ASoi disantra, whoa ohRepeat. --- LIKE LIKE THE THE THE DEATHBm EmLike like the the the deathG Cmaj7Air crickets air crickets air crickets air crickets airFmaj7 GMother and child with magazineFmaj7 CInto a story, into a dreamFmaj7 GWhy is there something instead of nothingFmaj7 CAnd how is the asking built into the hunting?G Am CDo you believe in MGM endings?G Am CEverybody's coming back to Christmas for TexasG Am CFolks who've watched their mother kill an animal knowThat their home is surrounded by places to goG Am C(and the west has made a deal with the sun).Bm EmMy life at home very day:G Cmaj7Drinking Coke in a kitchen with a dogWho doesn't even know his name.Bm EmOh right it could've been anyoneG Cmaj7Grass rabbits grass rabbits grass rabbits grass rabbits grassFmaj7 GNobody cares about a dead hookerFmaj7 CLooking like one, standing for moneyFmaj7 GLife finds a limit at the edge of our bodiesFmaj7 CA stranger begins wherever I see her.G Am CLet's live where the indoors and outdoors meetG Am CAll the kids in the commonwealth are free.G Am CEvery morning you forgive me, every evening you relive meAnd the pattern itself is what you give meG Am C(the morning has cut a deal with the east).Bm EmLike like the the the deathG Cmaj7Air crickets air crickets air crickets air crickets air--- BUCKINGHAM RABBITG F EmBack then I had a Buckingham rabbit.I'd been lonely since she found Christ. Now is the time to depend on the law:D Emthe nights of my professional life.G F EmI was living in a very young city.Grand piano, great lakes, good-bye. If you ask me my name, it's high-low-jack in the game.D EmI can track a single bee to the hive.G F EmEvery single game was a blowout.And the Nascar blurred into porn. Scenic this, scenic that, don't fall for the trapsD EmOf the man who was never born.Fmaj7 AmAnd so the rent became whiskey,Fmaj7 Amand then my life became risky:Fmaj7 AmAnd so the rent became whiskey (whiskeyyeyey),Fmaj7 Amshattered dogs on the rocks.G F EmAt the back of the bar there's a couchwhere the lonely people go and lie. They talk to the honky tonk psychiatristD Eminto the wee hours of the night.G F EmThe factories on muscle relaxers.The pine perfume of hilltown floors. The lover, the thinker, the talker, the singerD Emwon't be lucid for her anymore.Fmaj7 AmAnd so the rent became whiskey,Fmaj7 Amand then my life became risky:Fmaj7 AmAnd so the rent became whiskey (whiskeyyeyey),Fmaj7 Amshattered dogs on the rocks.SOLO OVER CHORUS CHORDSG F EmWhen you know how I feel I feel betterWhen you're 15 you want to look poor. Do unto others, and run like a motherD EmI don't want to look poor anymoreG F EmJesus in a runaway shelter,said "The deaf have pictures of you." From the digital fountains to the analog mountains,D Emlet the mirrow express the room.--- HONK IF YOU'RE LONELYD Radio's on, feeling all rightECruising the strip on a Saturday night.GI smile and I wave and I hide all my painDbut the sign on my bumper gives me away:G A DHonk if you're lonely tonightG DIf you need a friend to get through the nightG DA toot on your horn, a flash of your brightsG A DHonk if you're lonely tonight.(verse chords) I know honky-tonk where we can go. A booth in the back with the lights way down low. The jukebox is playing a sad melody for heart-broken lovers like you and me. We'll laugh and we'll flirt and we'll dance every dance and before the night's over we'll take a chance. The morning will find us with a smile on our face and we'll be together in a lover's embrace.G A DHonk if you're lonely tonightG DIf you need a friend to get through the nightG DA toot on your horn, a flash of your brightsG A DHonk if you're lonely tonight.(verse chords) I know it seems sad to be so damn blue but there's always the chance that you'll meet someone new. I know that somewhere waiting for me is a sad lonely lover with a bumper that reads:G A DHonk if you're lonely tonightG DIf you need a friend to get through the nightG DA toot on your horn, a flash of your brightsG A DHonk if you're lonely tonight.--- THE WILD KINDNESS Em // C // C // EmEm CI wrote a letter to a wildflowerC Emon a classic nitrogen afternoon.Em CSome power that hardly looked like powerC Gsaid I'm only perfect in an empty room.DFour dogs in the distanceAmeach stands for a kindness.CBluebirds lodged in an evergreen altar...G D AmI'm gonna shine out in the wild silenceCand spurn the sin of giving in.Em COil paintings of x-rated picnics.C EmBehind the walls of medication I'm free.Em CEvery leaf in a compact mirrorC Ghits a target that we can't see.DGrass grows in the icebox.AmThe year ends in the next roomCIt is autumn and my camouflage is dyingG D Aminstead of time there will be latenessG D Aminstead of time there will be latenessG D Aminstead of time there will be latenessCand let forever be delayed.SOLO OVER VERSE AND CHORUS CHORDSEm CI dyed my hair in a motel voidC Emmet the coroner at Dreamgate FrontierEm CHe took may hand said I'll help you boyC Gff you really want to disappearDFour dogs in the distanceAmeach stands for a silence.CBluebirds lodged in an evergreen altar...G D AmI'm gonna shine out in the wild kindnessG D AmI'm gonna shine out in the wild kindnessG D AmI'm gonna shine out in the wild kindnessCand hold the world to its word.Aaaand finish on a Bm. --- Now I know it may not be perfectly aligned, but it's much better than the other one. Enjoy!