• Song:

    Game Shows Touch Our Lives

  • Artist:

    Mountain Goats

  • Album:

    2005-06-23: Bottom of t...

Tabbed by: Celidor

Tuning:  standard
Chords:
   E5  C5  F5  D5
e | --X---X---X---2----------------------------------------------------------- | 
B | --X---1---1---3----------------------------------------------------------- | 
G | --2---0---2---2----------------------------------------------------------- | 
D | --0---2---3---0----------------------------------------------------------- | 
A | --2---3---3--------------------------------------------------------------- | 
E | --3----------------------------------------------------------------------- | 
(The high e sounds muted for most of the song.)


When he plays the Em6 chord he adds and removes a finger on the G string. 
This is hard to explain so I'll show you, as this is repeated throughout the song.

e | --x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- | 
B | --x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1- |   Repeat
G | --0-0-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2- | 
D | --0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3- | 
A | --2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3- | 
E | --3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----------------- | 
     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 
(Once you have that down sounding right, you are ready to start playing the song.)


Game Shows Touch Our Lives
-----------------------------------------

E5 C5 F5 (4x)

E5
 Dug up a fifth of Hood River gin
C5
 That stuff tastes like medicine
         F5       C5
But I'll take it
      E5
It'll do
       E5
On the couch in the living room all day long
   C5
Music on the television playing our song
             F5    C5
I'm in the mood
             E5
The mood for you

E5 C5 F5 (2x)

E5
 Turn the volume up real high
  C5
All of that money look at it fly
          F5  C5                   E5
And you smoking like a chimney
E5
Shadows crawled across the living room's length
 C5
I held onto you with a desperate strength
        F5    C5                 E5
With everything with everything in me
       D5                        C5
And I handed you a drink of a lovely little thing
   E5
On which our survival depends
D5                            C5
People say friends don't destroy one another
                          D5
What do they know about friends?

E5  C5  F5 (4x)

E5
Thunderclouds forming cream white moon
  C5
Everything's going to be okay soon
         F5     C5
Maybe tomorrow
          E5
Maybe the next day
E5
Carried you up the stairs that night
       C5
All of this could be yours if the price is right
        F5                   C5
I heard cars headed down to oblivion
             E5
Up on the expressway
D5
Your drunken kisses as light as the air
       C5                                     E5
Maybe everything that falls down eventually rises
D5
Our house sinking into disrepair
         C5                                           E5
Ah but look at this showroom filled with fabulous prizes

E5
E5  C5  F5
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