------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Sight - These United States ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: theratking Tuning: Standard The whole song is just I-vi - ii - V, but it's probably easiest to play it with the capo on 3 All chords/tab are relative to a capo on 3 The licks I tabbed out are just a sketch, just fool around with the different chords and patterns G - repeat twice e|---------3--------------------------------------------------| B|--------------3---------------------------------------------| G|---------0----------3--1--0---------------------------------| D|--------------0---------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------| E|-3----------------------------------------------------------| Em - repeat twice e|---------3--------------------------------------------------| B|--------------3---------------------------------------------| G|---------0----------3--1--0---------------------------------| D|--------------0(2)------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------| E|-0----------------------------------------------------------| Am - repeat twice e|---------3--------------------------------------------------| B|--------------3---------------------------------------------| G|-2------------------3--1--0---------------------------------| D|------------------------------------------------------------| A|-0----------------------------------------------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------| D - repeat twice e|---------3--------------------------------------------------| B|--------------3---------------------------------------------| G|--------------------3--1--0---------------------------------| D|-0----------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------| G with her mouth making movements to introduce thoughts Em I sat deafened by trust on that sofa across Am quietly calculating the logistics of lust D of when unspoken things could then happen between us and once all those were done and we got through love, we would shoot from the hip, reacting off of the cuff, splitting up at the fork when the going got rough, with a plan for a point to rejoin on the road further up our windows thin where the ice carved its flowers, I would hold her, let the wind beat back those hours, and then standing on subway trains clutching her dress, dependent on her balance, since the walls were useless, and while it's alright to hold tight, please don't try to hold on, cause it's a homerun we hit, love, it's going and gone and then the world turned so fast, it was astoundingly still and it must have been that moment made of midnight on the hill, right when the cataraxed alleycat spat back at the moon, throwing out into the night, time nine life times too soon, we had come such a ways, and knew just what he meant, there's a picture of the three of us at the gate to the garden of eden you can get home, but you can't get in locks are like longing; an everchanging thing and keys are just clouds made of metal and spark we knew exactly who we were, and yet couldn't quite say who we still are I saw it all happening in one grand epic sweep, from that first sight that we wouldn't get to sleep for a week and generations would follow the course that we'd charted from that sofa across, I couldn't wait to get started.