• Song:

    Shell Games

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    The People's Key

Tabbed by: John Morisi

Tuning: Standard

Verse:
                 A5                          A5                     
Took the fireworks and the vanity
        F5                                    C5
The circuit board and the city streets
F5                                         C5
Shooting stars, swaying palm tree
C5                                     A5
Laid it at Doherty?s(?) feet
      A5                                                          A5
If I could change my mind, change the paradigm
      F5                            C5
Prepare myself for another life
      F5                                C5
Forgive myself for the many times
           G5                                                               A5
I was cruel to something helpless and weak

Chorus:
       F5                               G5
But here it come, that heavy love
       C5                                    A5
I?m never gonna move it alone
F5                                G5
Here it come, that heavy love
C5                                   A5
Tag it on a tenement wall
F5                              G5
Here it come that heavy love
Ab5                                      A5
Someone gotta share in the load
F5                                    G5
Oh here it come that heavy love
       F5                     G5                       C...
I?m never gonna move it alone

Instrumental 
C5 - G5 - F5 - E5 (listen to song for rhythm )

A5 C5 F5 C5 F5 A5 G5 (play chords in the normal pattern)

Verse:
I was dressed in white
Touched by something pure
death pobsessed like a teenager
Sold my tortured youth, pissed in vinegar
I?m still angry with no reason to be
At the architect who imagined this
For the everyman blessed sisyphus
Slipping steadily into madness
Now thats the only place to be free

Chorus:
But here it come, that heavy love
You?re never gonna move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
Tatooed on a criminals arm
Here it come that heavy love
Someone gotta share in the load
Oh here it come that heavy love
You?re never gonna move it alone

Instrumental 
C5 - G5 - F5 - E5 (listen to song for rhythm )

A5 C5 F5 C5 F5 A5 G5 (play chords in the normal pattern)

      A5       Bb5    C5
No I don?t want to play
          F5        C5                   F5       G5
It?s a shell game, it?s a shell game.

Bridge/Verse:
     A5                               A5  
Distorted sounds on oscilloscopes
     F5                                 C5
Distorted facts I could never cope
       F5                           C5
My private life is an inside joke.
      G5                                   A5
No one will explain it to me
                 A5                            A5 
WIll it be everything that we ever need
  F5                          C5
Everyone on the count of three,
  F5                          C5
Everyone on the count of three
         G5
All together now.

Chorus:
But here it come, that heavy love
We?re never gonna move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
PLaying as the cylinder rolls
Here it come that heavy love
I only wanna share in the load
Oh here it come that heavy love
I?m never gonna move it alone

C5 - G5 - F5 - E5
C5 - G5 - F5 - E5
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