• Song:

    Act Of Contrition

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

Hello....  I took about 2 hours and improved the chords to this song.  Everything is
more thorough, and all the chord changed are exact, I just finished listening to the song.  
this helps a little better.

Credit to Yoshima for tabbing the original version of this, with some of his 
still intact.

Happy jamming =)    -LM
Questions?  email = alien7542@aol.com

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Bright Eyes - "Act of Contrition"

The chords used in this song are relative to a capo on the 1st fret:

......C....Csus2/B...Am.......F.......G.......
e|----0-------0-------0-------1-------3------|
B|----1-------1-------1-------1-------3------|
G|----0-------0-------2-------2-------0------|
D|----2-------0-------2-------3-------0------|
A|----3-------2-------0-------0-------2------|
E|----x-------x-------x-------x-------3------|

The following pattern is played 4 times for the intro and also forms the main theme of 
song; the bass notes being plucked with the thumb and the highest four strings are strummed;

.....C..........Csus2/B....Am..........................
e|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------0-0-0------------------|
B|-------1-1-1------1-1-1------1-1-1------------------|  INTRO:
G|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------2-2-2------------------| 
D|-------2-2-2------0-0-0------2-2-2--3p2h3p2h3p2-----| 
A|---3----------2----------0--------------------------|    3p2h3p2h3p2
E|----------------------------------------------------|    is copied
                                                         throughout the
                                                            WHOLE song.
This main theme is the repeated through the verse...

                 C (x32010@1) Csus2/B   AmThe (x02210@1)air was all dust
3p2h3p2h3p2  C    Csus2/B   Am    3p2h3p2h3p2
A night so untamed
     C (x32010@1)       Csus2/B    Am (x02210@1)      3p2h3p2h3p2    
  Csus2/B   Am
The ground opened up and swallowed, all of the rain
      3p2h3p2h3p2     C (x32010@1)Csus2/B   AmAnd (x02210@1)it swallowed you too...
     3p2h3p2h3p2  C   Csus2/B   Am  3p2h3p2h3p2
Into distance unknown


         C (x32010@1)        Csus2/B       Am(let (x02210@1)ring)      
  FAs (133211@1)they sat down for dinner they waited for you to get home
                 GYeah, (320003@1)they set a...place for you.
    C (x32010@1)  Csus2/B  Am (x02210@1)(let ring)            
           GSo (320003@1)don't...be....lieve everything that you read, in that...diary of
  C    Csus2/B  Am  3p2h3p2h3p2
yours.


C  Csus2/B  Am  3p2h3p2h3p2   C    
  Am (x02210@1)                And this...  ner - vous - ness,
   3p2h3p2h3p2   C    Csus2/B     Am   3p2h3p2h3p2
It isn't...     all  your   fault
               C (x32010@1)Csus2/B   Am (x02210@1)        3p2h3p2h3p2
It's just these sha - king  hands won't do

        C (x32010@1)     Csus2/B    Am (x02210@1) 3p2h3p2h3p2
what I want them  ...  to.

        C (x32010@1)Csus2/B    Am (x02210@1) 3p2h3p2h3p2
And I've tried    to guess  what  it,
C  Csus2/B  Am     3p2h3p2h3p2
 Is  you  thought about


      C (x32010@1)      Csus2/B        Am(let (x02210@1)ring)          
     FThat (133211@1)act of contrition that rolled off our tongues as you wept.
             GWhat (320003@1)are you...crying for?
      C (x32010@1) Csus2/B Am (x02210@1)(let ring)   FJust (133211@1)dust...my   heart and you will find
                   GThere (320003@1)are no fingers printed there
         C (x32010@1)  Csus2/B    Am(let (x02210@1)ring)   FJust (133211@1)the un...touched...place that lies inside
         G (320003@1)               C (x32010@1)  Csus2/B  Am (x02210@1)3p2h3p2h3p2
Of every...lonely boy...tonight.

***If you have one, start randomly tapping a type-writer until end***

C    Csus2/B  Am  3p2h3p2h3p2
C    Csus2/B  Am  3p2h3p2h3p2
C (x32010@1)  Csus2/B  Am (x02210@1)3 - 2 - 0   

.....C..........Csus2/B....Am..................F.......
e|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------0-0-0-----------1------|
B|-------1-1-1------1-1-1------1-1-1-----------1------|
G|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------2-2-2-----------2------|
D|-------2-2-2------0-0-0------2-2-2--3--2--0--3------|
A|---3----------2----------0-------------------0------|
E|---------------------------------------------x------|

F  (4 bars)
                                                         GG (320003@1) (3 bars, and on the offbeat before the 4th bar:  "And all.....", so that you 
on "all" with the G chord, signifying that "all" is the 4th bar

     G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)Csus2/B  Am(let (x02210@1)ring)      
  FAnd (133211@1)all this o... pen ...air has caused me to choke
        G (320003@1)                     C (x32010@1)Csus2/B  
 3p2h3p2h3p2
On your...new-found hope...for me.
C  Csus2/B  Am  3p2h3p2h3p2
C  Csus2/B  Am  3p2h3p2h3p2
C  Csus2/B  Am  3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2.

Let that last note ring out and that's it.

THE END.

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