The Shins - My Seventh Rib
Submitted by Cody Armacher
Tab Courtesy of http://www.nellmedia.com

G riff     A riff

3-3-3-3    5-5-5-5
3-3-3-3    5-5-5-5
4-4-4-4    6-6-6-6
5-5-5-5    7-7-7-7
5-5-5-5    7-7-7-7
3-3-0-0    5-5-0-0

Verse 1


G riff

your silver tounge laughs at the clowns of our age

A riff                                           

a slow production line of cheap shots from 

G riff
      
both sides shot from the hip 

A riff

to my seventh rib a spoiled tomato lies in all that you 

D                 C             G

say and I was the last of us to know

D-C C-Bb (slide)

G riff

sound the alarm for my 

A riff

sentimental ways have come in view we've all got our own

G riff

knives sold to the worst of devils we 

A riff

know our mind and tight skin will soon be 

D                   C               G

old but this wasn't meant for us to know

D-C C-Bb 

G riff slide to Bb three times

G riff 

D

Youths open shutters give way to another taken by sleight of 

A         G                      C

hand, and every american has the mouth of a pelican

A         G          E        G             D

now can I share that pillow            with you love?



G riff 

they've got us in fits to find a way 

A riff 

out of this, exploded view of a life once so 

G riff

simple first with the curse and my senti-

A riff                     C   C        C#  D

mental ways are drawing my innocence to a   close

                  C              G           

but these weren't mean for me to know