• Song:

    Firewall

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    The People's Key

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Artist: Bright Eyes
Song: Firewall

This is the actual Tab...

Riff:

E ||---------------------------------|
B ||---------------------------------|
G ||------------------------------0--|
D ||------2-------0-------2----------|
A ||----(2)-2---2---2---2---2---2----|
E ||--0-------3-------0-------3------|

It's just a repeat between Em and G

Part 1

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I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul
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The classicists, the posturing avant-garde
CI (x32010@1)bought a grey macaw, named him Jules Verne
DHe'll (xx0232@1)probably outlive me he's a bright bird
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Keeps me company I teach him new words

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I saw a hologram at the theme park
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She looked as real as me through the white fog
CThen (x32010@1)she melted down to her ankles
DTurned (xx0232@1)into a million-watt candle
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If I knew where she went I would follow

Part 2

AmWalking (x02210@1)through the land of tomorrow
DMartian (xx0232@1)trinkets, plastic Apollos
GIn (320003@1)the sunshine try to act normal
CMy (x32010@1)veins are full of flat cherry-cola
Riff x2
Slept on a bench by the rollercoaster

Part 3
D (xx0232@1)                      C (x32010@1)          GDreamt (320003@1)I was riding on a motorbike
D (xx0232@1)                   C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)          DLion (xx0232@1)of Judah painted on the side

Part 1
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I'm doing fine, I'm back in the palisades
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Life's a wash, a pastoral school play
CChina (x32010@1)shops and cold ivory towers
DI (xx0232@1)and I make toasts to the Caesars
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Forcing down the dregs of Decembers

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Madeline she spins in a slow bang
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All through the house the strong smell of burnt sage
CLet's (x32010@1)make it clean and run out the spirits
DI (xx0232@1)know a diving bell when I hear it
Riff x2
We're going down now under the surface

Part 2
AmLight (x02210@1)to dark can shift in an instant
DFeeling (xx0232@1)close but keeping my distance
GOn (320003@1)all fours she's just so insistent
CFills (x32010@1)my mind with jump ropes and slit wrists
Riff x 2
Bust through the Firewall into heaven

Part 3
D (xx0232@1)                      C (x32010@1)          GThen (320003@1)I'm standing in that blinding light
D (xx0232@1)                      C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)DCrooked (xx0232@1)crosses falling from the sky

Part 4
GSeen (320003@1)yeah seen by I and I
CSeen (x32010@1)yeah seen by I and I

Repeats until

Riff x2

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