------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FATE OF THE WORLD DEPENDS ON THIS KISS - Whitehorse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Wil-Man-101 at Ultimate-Guitar I wrote this out using a baritone uke, so a few minor things may be incorrect. TRACKS 1. Achilles Desire 2. Devil's Got a Gun 3. Mismatched Eyes (Boat Song) 4. Peterbilt Coalmine 5. Cold July 6. Jane 7. Out Like a Lion 8. No Glamour in the Hammer 9. Radiator Blues 10. Annie Lu 11. Wisconsin 12. Mexico Texaco KEY ... Continue playing the last chord / Slide ~ Let ring C. Play C for one beat Parentheses show who's singing. (Not 100% accurate) ( ) Just Melissa [ ] Just Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACHILLES' DESIRE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capo 5 Dm7M X00221 Dm7 X00211 Dm6 X00201 INTRO: Am ... [I don't have much but I got the good stuff ... I keep it tucked away where you can find it if you've got the guts Dm Walk with me, walk with me, walk with me, walk ... I got a girl from the 'burbs who won't talk Am I don't have much but I got the good stuff] ... (I don't know why but you make me sweat ... When trouble comes calling, I'm packing my bags for the west Dm I'll give you nothing for nothing if that's what you desire ... I'll let it cool if you light my fire Am Bumper shine my way home ... Bumper shine my way home) CHORUS 1: C G D A All the square pegs and all the round holes C G D A Couldn't fit all of the stories you told C G The pull of a moth to the fire Am Your Achilles' desire ... [I don't have much but I am a rich man ... I got a woman down from the Park Ridge who is finer than sand] Dm Dm7M Dm7 Fall with me, fall with me, fall with me Dm6 Dm Dm7M Dm7 Dm6 Fall through the waist of the hourglass, fall Am [I don't have much but I am a rich man] A second-hand gypsy is no fading flower Fingers are frozen in furious power The pull of a moth to the fire Your Achilles' desire Cold, cold sweat on the back of my knees The future runs in on the Assiniboine breeze The pull of a moth to the fire Your Achilles' desire All the square pegs and all the round holes Couldn't fit all of the stories you told The pull of a moth to the fire Your Achilles' desire The pull of a moth to the fire Your Achilles' desire I don't have much ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEVIL'S GOT A GUN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRO: Am-E--Am- Am E Look out, this thing is gonna blow Am I heard it from the people in the know E There's trouble in the tenements below Am There's fire where the flowers used to grow CHORUS: C G Am I'm never going back C I'm running from the sun F Bullets at my heels C The Devil's got a gun I'm never going home I'll be the only one With daylight on my tail And Heaven on the run Rain is jumping up into the clouds A girl has ceased to make her father proud Lovers wrapped up in cellophane The bitter fruit has fallen from its prey CHORUS C G Help me, I know not who I see Dm C I'm a stranger to the face looking back at me F C G When a company of sisters is just like any mystery to me Hold me, I know not who I am If I'm a woman, you're a creature, not a man The eyes of a lover- they look like any other to me It's down to the second hand The tick-tock is more than you can stand The grinders and the wheels they never see We're fighting to the bottom of the deep CHORUS Daylight on my tail And Heaven on the run ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MISMATCHED EYES (BOAT SONG) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capo 3 Simplified intro/verse: A F#m e|0-------|0-------| B|--3/2-3-|--3/2-3-| A [Is it the list and the sway ... Is it the roll and the pitch] F#m (The drunken Gulf of Mexico ... Or he seven-year itch) A [I hear the mating calls of fireflies ... Some celestial blues] F#m (And they're bringing me around again ... And that's something I can use) E [Now I see] nothing but the water ... And it's falling from my face G [It is the face] (It is the face) ... [It is the face] (It is the face) D I want to show you [Will I remember to remember That without I'm a shadow] (Of a drifter and a barfly And whatever else you had to be) [It's true I've come around Now I can even touch my toes] (And all the running and the talking- Yeah, now everybody knows) [You never] speak but I can hear you As you sing out from your mismatched eyes [They are the eyes] (They are the eyes) [They are the eyes] I will to die with [We're on a boat out on the ocean And there's nothing more to share] (We've gone from one wave to another And back again a where) [We go where guitars are hung over And the songs are fast asleep] (I feel the flesh wounds in my heart But they are mine for me to keep) [In your] pocket or your fist Or in your mind but they come to you [by your ears] (They are the ears) [They are the ears] (They are the ears) That I will sing to ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PETERBILT COALMINE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRO: Am--F--Dm--C-G- Am [I been eyeing up a coalmine baby F I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and Dm I been listening to the radio sometimes Am G And it's making my backbone wilt] Am I been dreaming of the mighty, mighty Red F And the thatched roof hut that I'd put on it and Dm You gotta figure there's a local 'round the bend C G With a shattered red barstool and my name's on it C Has the record stopped Em Spinning? Dm Has the other boot dropped? G F Is my punk flame burning C F.F.C. Out? I keep my eye upon the Bluejay flying From your collar to your hipbone baby I don't expect it to be on you always But surprise me with it one day maybe The way you did when I came in from the cold And nothing on you but a devil-wide grin and I don't imagine I could tire of the act but/echo What a lonely, lonely road it's been CHORUS A: C Has the record stopped Em Spinning? Dm Has the other boot dropped? G Ab (maybe Bb) Is my punk flame burning out? C And has the band moved on Em And left me on the farm? Dm Is my rock 'n' roll nerve all spent G F C F.F.C. Just a flaming heart on an old man's arm CHORUS Ab I been eyeing up a coalmine baby I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and I been listening to the radio sometimes... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLD JULY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A7 X02020 A5 0022X0 (or power chord) D5 X00235 Am7 x02120 F#m6 243222 INTRO: A-D- A (Cold snap apathy D Killer hypothermic heart) A I read you like calloused Braille D E Hieroglyphics in the snow D (We'll get by) CHORUS: A A7 (It's been a) cold D Cold July (It's been a) cold Cold July (Breeze past the corridor Radiator on the fritz) We walked down to see the melted mess Snow to slush at the Charleswood Lagoon (Frozen dry) CHORUS A5 (January, February) [Snow drop pickups and _] D5 (Spring forward, keep me warm) [Sleigh bell forest fire] Bm E (April showers fall back down) [In your garden then it'll _ an alibi] D (Love letters in the snow) A-Am7- F#m D7 F#m Oh, for the love of it D7 F#m Or just the hell of it F#m6 Just sink your claws in it A D Set me on fire (CHORUS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JANE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since this song is electronic, these chords are approximations. EmM7 021000 Em7 020000 Em6 022020 INTRO: E5 Em Jane, she gets so close ... Jane, she gets so close Em EmM7 Em7 Em6 Jane, you know, she'll never let go Am If you want her ... You can have her ... It don't matter Em She's a wrecking ball Jane, you get so hot Jane, you get so hot Jane, you know, you're gonna get caught C Em One more last clean slate F G Ab Count your pennies, say your prayers C Em Everybody burns F Ab Crawl through all the endless layers Jane don't lose your jam Don't underestimate your hand Play the ace, don't show it on your face Keep the jack You're the queen Take the chips To the cash machine Jane you hurt so good Like all the B-movie harlots would Play the part, take the body, not the heart Face down in the mire Hidden with the hearts for hire Everybody knows But you and it shows Actual verse parts: A|--------2-------|--------2---3---| E|0-----0-----3---|0-----0---------| D|2-----2-1-----1-|0-----0---------|----------------|----------------| A|----------------|--------4-----4-|0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~--0-1-2-------| E|----------------|----------------|----------------|--3---------3---| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OUT LIKE A LION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capo 5 Fm7 X03210 (C) (I'm not yours (E) You are mine Am Fm7 Let that sink in C G Like the Mary Rose She went down With a heavy load But who is this fading flower? Mm-mm) CHORUS: C Come to life E In the spring Am I was shaking Fm7 from your sting You should know In like lamb Out like a lion (I came in) Like a lamb Out like a lion C--- We grew up So we were told Time just leaves us Out in the cold Seasons change I'm getting warm A feline in mohair Mm-mm CHORUS (CHORUS) (I came in) Like a lamb Out like a lion (x2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO GLAMOUR IN THE HAMMER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Em7 020000 Em6 022020 INTRO: Em-G-A-C- Em G A C (There's no glamour in the hammer but they sell it at the Big 'n' Tall Em-G-A-C- Em G A C They'll fit a king like a prince in a joker's pair of coveralls Em-G-A-C- C G B When your motorchair stalls tell the cop you've seen it all) Em Em7-Em6- There's no getting out of this one C Em Em7-Em6-C There's no getting out of this (Got no Ambien, no Secondal, no genie in a lithium bottle Just a first aid kit and a suicidal lingerie model Keep the trunk locked up, rev the engine, hammer the throttle) CHORUS: There's no getting out of this one There's no getting out of this You got a camouflage lover And a bulletproof kiss Am--D-F- (Way up on the escarpment, on a good day you can see the smokestacks Down below St Joe's spilling over with heart attacks Down the east steps Fitzcaraldo covers up your tracks) CHORUS And a bulletproof kiss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RADIATOR BLUES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E5 022400 E* XX9700 INTRO: E5-E*- E5 (You've got those far away eyes E* Baby, far away eyes And I've got these radiator blues Baby, what am I to do? [CHORUS]: A Let's not talk about much tonight ... Just move to the silence in the lone starlight ... Hold me by the hands and bring your body closer B I want the heat, I want the roller coaster Please put your body in my bed And your pretty little head Whisper me things you'd never dare I can take you there I been waiting too long for the this The touch of your fingers and your sweet, sweet kiss Hold me in your gaze until my mind is weak You are the medicine that I seek G Where have you been, baby? C D Off to the far side and sitting on the beach Em In some faraway land that never C Ends G When you coming back, baby? C D I got the radiator blues Em C--D-D#- But I won't ever leave you cold (You've got those far away eyes Baby, far away eyes And I've got these radiator blues Baby, what am I to do?) CHORUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNIE LU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: Probably in DADGAD or DGCFAD. Written here in standard. D* (Dsus2/5+) XX0330 INTRO: D-Gm-D-D* D Gm D D* (The clouds- they moved in on the hour It's a part of this town I despise But if it should yield but one small, snow-white flower And one happy tear in your eye Then let it come down, let it fall, give us rain And I'll thank the almighty powers 'Cause one precious drop from those glorious pools You call eyes is all I require) CHORUS: Annie Lu, Annie Lu Won't you save me from you 'Cause that's a whole lotta love for one little boy I'll love you until no more loving can be Annie Lu, Annie Lu, Annie Lu (If you should ever just up and go Won't you spare me the agony of watching you leave? 'Cause my heart might go off like a pistol And make a dead man out of me) CHORUS Annie Lu, won't you bring back my heart? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISCONSIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capo 2 Am They're busting unions in Wisconsin C We got mojitos by the pool Dm We got a talent for distraction Am E No reaction to the colic and the cruel They're sinking battleships at midnight We change the channel on a dime When they break to a commercial Dress rehearsal in our catatonic prime/crime F Time is moving on C There's no marching band Dm Just some fuzzed out credits, names of strangers, Am E And a nightcap in your hair They're digging ditches in Zuccoti We're getting famous by the hour All our pirates are Johnny, not Somali trading bad seeds for flowers Everybody's got a ticket and a backstage pass Everybody's going somewhere someday Even the mighty- they won't last- Night I had a dream You were there Weaving through the burrows/burroughs E Down the high line with daisies in your hair They're busting unions in Toronto I'm coming down From wishful thinking and the like I'm sober as a judge E F But the jury's out drinking tonight They're busting unions in Wisconsin And praising Jesus in the schools They keeping science in the basement E Speaking tongues and making fools ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEXICO TEXACO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Em9 022002 F#7 242322 INTRO: Em9--F#--Am-D-Em-- Em--F#7--Am-D-Em-- Em (Sometimes I just F# I can't help but think Am D There's a particular way Em For an angel to sleep) With her head just so Turned up unaware That you're standing there watching her dream Something frightfully beautiful Em9 G Why can't I take this car D And drive it to Mexico? Am F We'll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe Em Where we'll run out of gas F I wonder why It scares me to death You tell me everything you ever thought about Love was a lie (I should be struck dumb) Happily insane But the man in my head recommends against Paving my history Why can't I take this car And drive it to Mexico? We'll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe G Where we'll run out of gas Why can't I take this bird And fly her to Jupiter? Pit stop in Venus, stare back at the Earth While she catches her Em D G E-Am--D-- Sweet soft breath Em D G-E-Am--D-- Why can't I take this car... Why can't I take this bird... (End on Am)