• Song:

    The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss Album

  • Artist:

    Whitehorse

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Tabbed by: Wil-Man-101

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


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                             ACHILLES' DESIRE
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Capo 5

Dm7M    X00221
D5     X00211
D5     X00201

INTRO: A5

...
[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
D5
Walk with me, walk with me, walk with me, walk
...
I got a girl from the 'burbs who won't talk
             A5
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
D5
I'll give you nothing for nothing if that's what you desire
...
I'll let it cool if you light my fire
A5
Bumper shine my way home
...
Bumper shine my way home)


CHORUS 1:
C5              G5        D5             A5
All the square pegs and all the round holes
C5            G5         D5          A5
Couldn't fit all of the stories you told
    C5                     G5
The pull of a moth to the fire
                 A5
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]
D5             Dm7M           D5
Fall with me, fall with me, fall with me
D5            D5         Dm7M      D5   D5
Fall through the waist of the hourglass, fall
A5
[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


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                             DEVIL'S GOT A GUN
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INTRO: Am-E--Am-

A5                            E5
Look out, this thing is gonna blow
                                  A5
I heard it from the people in the know
                                   E5
There's trouble in the tenements below
                                       A5
There's fire where the flowers used to grow

CHORUS:
C5         G5    A5
I'm never going back
                     C5
I'm running from the sun
              F5
Bullets at my heels
                  C5
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

C5                         G5
Help me, I know not who I see
      D5                           C5
I'm a stranger to the face looking back at me
       F5                     C5                       G5
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


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                             MISMATCHED EYES (BOAT SONG)
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Capo 3

Simplified intro/verse:
  A5        F#5
e | 0------- | 0------- | 
B | --3/2-3- | --3/2-3- | 

           A5
[Is it the list and the sway
...
Is it the roll and the pitch]
F#5
(The drunken Gulf of Mexico
...
Or he seven-year itch)
            A5
[I hear the mating calls of fireflies
...
Some celestial blues]
             F#5
(And they're bringing me around again
...
And that's something I can use)
            E5
[Now I see] nothing but the water
...
And it's falling from my face


           G5
[It is the face] (It is the face)
...
[It is the face] (It is the face) 
          D5
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


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                             PETERBILT COALMINE
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INTRO: Am--F--Dm--C-G-

A5
   [I been eyeing up a coalmine baby
F5
   I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and
D5
   I been listening to the radio sometimes
A5                    G5
   And it's making my backbone wilt]


A5
   I been dreaming of the mighty, mighty Red
F5
   And the thatched roof hut that I'd put on it and
D5
   You gotta figure there's a local 'round the bend
          C5                        G5
   With a shattered red barstool and my name's on it


C5
   Has the record stopped
   E5
   Spinning?
D5
   Has the other boot dropped?
         G5          F5
   Is my punk flame burning
   C5    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

BisS A5 :
C5
   Has the record stopped
   E5
   Spinning?
D5
   Has the other boot dropped?
         G5          Ab5 (maybe Bb5 )
   Is my punk flame burning out?
C5
   And has the band moved on
      E5
   And left me on the farm?
D5
   Is my rock 'n' roll nerve all spent
          G5                   F5                C5   F.F.C.
   Just a flaming heart on an old man's arm

BisS Ab5

I been eyeing up a coalmine baby
I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and
I been listening to the radio sometimes...


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                             COLD JULY
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A5      X02020
A5      0022X0 (or power chord)
D5      X00235
A5     x02120
F#5    243222

INTRO: A5 - D-

 A5
(Cold snap apathy
D5
Killer hypothermic heart)
  A5
I read you like calloused Braille
D5                         E5
Hieroglyphics in the snow
           D5
(We'll get by)


CHORUS:
              A5    A5
(It's been a) cold
       D5
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]
B5           E5
(April showers fall back down) [In your garden then it'll _ an alibi]
D5
(Love letters in the snow)

A5 - Am7-

F#5         D5        F#5
Oh, for the love of it
            D5         F#5
Or just the hell of it
               F#5
Just sink your claws in it
A5         D5
Set me on fire

(CHORUS)


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                                JANE
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Since this song is electronic, these chords are approximations.

EmM7    021000
E5     020000
E5     022020

INTRO: E5

E5
Jane, she gets so close
...
Jane, she gets so close
E5        EmM7         E5      E5
Jane, you know, she'll never let go

        
       A5
If you want her
...
You can have her
...
It don't matter
                 E5
She's a wrecking ball


Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you know, you're gonna get caught


C5                   E5
One more last clean slate
F5                   G5       Ab5
Count your pennies, say your prayers
C5         E5
Everybody burns
F5                     Ab5
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--- | 


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                             OUT LIKE A LION
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Capo 5

F5     X03210

         ( C5 )
(I'm not yours
        ( E5 )
You are mine
              A5 F5
Let that sink in
              C5    G5
Like the Mary Rose
She went down
With a heavy load
But who is this fading flower?
Mm-mm )


CHORUS:
        C5
Come to life
       E5
In the spring
      A5
I was shaking
          F5
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)


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                             NO GLAMOUR IN THE HAMMER
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E5     020000
E5     022020

INTRO: E5 - G5 - A5 - C-

            E5             G5              A5             C5
(There's no glamour in the hammer but they sell it at the Big 'n' Tall
E5 - G5 - A5 - C-
              E5          G5          A5                      C5
They'll fit a king like a prince in a joker's pair of coveralls
E5 - G5 - A5 - C-
          C5                          G5                      B5
When your motorchair stalls tell the cop you've seen it all)


                          E5       E5 - Em6-
There's no getting out of this one
           C5              E5   E5 - E5 - C5
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


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                            RADIATOR BLUES
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E5      022400
E5 *      XX9700

INTRO: E5 - E5 *-

 E5
(You've got those far away eyes
               E5 *
Baby, far away eyes
And I've got these radiator blues
Baby, what am I to do?


[CHORUS]:
A5
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
                            B5
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

G5
Where have you been, baby?
C5                       D5
Off to the far side and sitting on the beach
        E5
In some faraway land that never 
C5    
Ends
G5
When you coming back, baby?
C5                  D5
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


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                             ANNIE LU
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Tuning: Probably in DADGAD or DGCFAD. Written here in standard.

D5 * (D/#5)   XX0330

INTRO: D5 - G5 - D5 - D5 *

    D5                  G5       D5    D5 *
(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?


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                             WISCONSIN
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Capo 2

                          A5
They're busting unions in Wisconsin
                      C5
We got mojitos by the pool
                       D5
We got a talent for distraction
                   A5            E5
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

               F5
Time is moving on
                    C5
There's no marching band
                     D5
Just some fuzzed out credits, names of strangers,
      A5               E5
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
                        E5
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
                   E5            F5
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
                            E5
Speaking tongues and making fools


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                             MEXICO TEXACO
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E5     022002
F#5     242322

INTRO:
Em(b9)-F#--Am-D-Em--
Em--F#7--Am-D-Em--

             E5
(Sometimes I just
                 F#5
I can't help but think
             A5          D5
There's a particular way
                E5
For an angel to sleep)


With her head just so
Turned up unaware
That you're standing there watching her dream
Something frightfully beautiful

E5

            G5
Why can't I take this car
                D5
And drive it to Mexico?
            A5              F5
We'll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe
                       E5
Where we'll run out of gas

F5

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
                       G5
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
E5    D5    G5      E5 - Am- - D--
Sweet soft breath


            E5   D5    G5 - E5 - Am- - D--
Why can't I take this car...
Why can't I take this bird...

(End on A5 )
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