The Shins
Those Bold City Girls

A great Shins song, not very difficult though.
Listen to it to get the timing and the stroke patterns right.
Have fun,
CesareBorgio

Bm                               G
You slide out at night to show yourself
                     E
you mean to hang yourself on the wall
              Fis                           Bm
with the hems you call your friends.
                                  G
You've memorized a thousand lines and
             E
kissed a thousand guys but none packed
                                          Fis
more than wood.

G                    D                                        
And still you wake up, the taste of the 
C                         G       A               G
night before has grown somehow. 
                  D
You memorized your makeup, you're free from 
        C                         G       A   A4  A  G *  A  A4  A  G *  A  A4  A 
their eyes and all they laugh about.

Bm                        G
Sailboats that never float and lids of lead
            E
that hold your ego down. What's it take
    Fis          Bm                   G
to bend the lens? Well as you can see I 
          E                         Fis            D
really know but never can amend the trend
             A                    G
towards the rocks wielding the knives
                                D
beneath your breast and all the the waves
           A              G
that never break within our sight. So come on
        A
treat me right.



Instrumental
Bm ? G ? E- Fm (2x)

G              D
If you could keep him you'd dub him
        C                      G         A      G
"The rock what aced 'em two to one" 
                        D
but the powder from your empty boxes
       C                        G        A        G
was ground from your whole empty youth.
             D                  
And so you wake up, the taste of the 
C               G        A               G
night before has grown somehow. 
                  D
You take off your makeup, and you're free 
           C                     G       A   A4  A  G *  A  A4  A  G *  A  A4  A
from their eyes and all they laugh about.

D


G * = Picked