• Song:

    Under The Cover Of Darkness Live

  • Artist:

    The Strokes

Key: B5

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Intro: B- - C#m-- x2


Verse 1:
 B5
Slip back out of whack
        B5
At your best
       Eb5
It's a nightmare
   Ab5             E5
So I'm joining the army
B5
Know how folks back out
        B5
I still call
     Eb5
Will you hate for me now? 
E5
We got the righteous 
  C#5
advice to use it
Ab5
Got everything but 
C#5
you can just choose it
  B5
I won't just be a 
puppet on a string


Refrain 1:
Ab5   E5       B5  F#5
Don't go that way
Ab5  E5        B5  F#5
I'll wait for you


Chorus 1:
        Ab5
And I'm tired of 
all your friends 
E5
Listening at your door 
      B5
And I won't
         F#5
I better call you. 
Ab5     E5
So long my friend
B5          F#5
And adversary
But I will call you


Post Biss: B- - C#m--


Verse 2:
B5
Get dressed jump out of bed
          B5
And do it best
Eb5
Are you OK?
E5
I've been out 
 Ab5
around this town 
    B5
And everybody's been singing 
    E5         B5
the same song ten years


Refrain 2:
Ab5  E5        B5  F#5
I'll wait for you
     Ab5 E5        B5  F#5
Will you wait for me too? 


Chorus 2:
         Ab5
And they sacrifice their lives
       E5
In our land are all closed eyes
          B5
I've been saying we're beaten down
                F#5
I won't say it again
Ab5     E5
So long my end
B5           F#5
The sorry embrace


Guitar Solo: C#m- - Ebm- - C#m- - B-- - G- - B- - Ab5
C#m- - Ebm- - C#m- - B5 - F#5


(Repeat Refrain 1)


Chorus 3:
        Ab5
And I'm tired of 
all your friends 
E5
Listening at your door 
      B5
And I won't
         F#5
I better call you. 
Ab5     E5
So long my friend
B5          F#5
And adversary
for you


Outro: B--(hold)
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