Artist/Band: Vic Godard and Subway Sect
Song: "Empty Shell"
Album: What's the Matter Boy? (1980)

standard tuning

INTRO RIFF (palm-muted first pass):
e----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
B-1---0---1-----1|-1---0---1------|-3---3---3-----3|-3---3---3------||
G-2---2---2-----2|-2---2---2------|-4---3---4-----4|-4---3---4------|| x 2
D-2---2---2-----2|-2---2---2------|-5---5---5-----5|-5---5---5------||
A----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
E----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||

INTRO:
Em G Am7 G  (x2)

VERSE FILL RIFF on G:
e---------------------------------|
B---------------------------------|
G-0---0---0---0----0---0---0---0--|
D-4h5-5---4h5-5----4h5-5---4h5-5--|
A---------------------------------|
E---------------------------------|

VERSE:
Em (022000@1)                                     G (320003@1)FYou (133211@1)begin to talk, there's no one there.
    Em (022000@1)                                 G(w/ (320003@1)FILL)
Did you ever see so many empty spaces?
Em (022000@1)                                     G (320003@1)FI (133211@1)came across you on a rustic bend.
    Em (022000@1)                                 G(w/ (320003@1)FILL)
You used to be seen in important places.

PRE-CHORUS:
G (320003@1)                    AmWhere (x02210@1)do I go when the light grows dim?
G (320003@1)                AmDown (x02210@1)the road on a stick.
G (320003@1)                     AmWhat (x02210@1)will I do when the pen runs out?
CI (x32010@1)make a stop, the dogs they bark.
DAway (xx0232@1)and away and away and away.

CHORUS (w/ INTRO RIFF)
Am (x02210@1)          GEmpty (320003@1)Shell.
Am (x02210@1)                                        GI (320003@1)put another log on the fire, some fuel for you.
Am (x02210@1)          GEmpty (320003@1)Shell.
Am (x02210@1)                                     GI (320003@1)put another log on the fire, some fuel for you.

VERSE:
The battle is done you've lost and won.
And now you look so pale and eerie.
Counting the hills till sunset comes.
Lookin' out on to serve your name.

PRE-CHORUS:
I see the slopes seating God and (?)
Then I wrote within, within.
An open cyst, that tear in his eye.
He found his soul and lost his heart.
Away and away and away and away.

CHORUS (w/ INTRO RIFF)

Am (x02210@1)                                      GI (320003@1)put another log on the fire, some fuel for you.
Am (x02210@1)                                       GI (320003@1)put another log on the fire, some fuel for you.

OUTRO
Em G Am7 G
Em G Am7 Em

That's it, just play along with the song to get the timing right.
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Cheers!
-Bennyshambles78-