• Song:

    Apartment Story

  • Artist:

    The National

The National - Apartment Story

I'm not 100% sure of all the chord names. 
I've watch this a few times on acoustic on youtube. 
Its not 100% accurate with the way he plays it but these shapes and chords work perfect. 
For the B and Em in the chorus he plays it closer to the head of the guitar but 
it works fine this way too.

Standard tuning - No Capo.

   B     B/Ab    C#/Eb      E           B       Em
e|--2--------2--------4--------0--------|--7--------7--|
B|--4--------2--------4--------0--------|--7--------9--|
G|--4--------2--------4--------1--------|--8--------8--|
D|--4--------2--------4--------2--------|--9--------9--|
A|--2--------2-4/-----6--------2--------|--9--------7--|
E|--2--------4--------x--------0--------|--7--------x--|

B                          B/Ab                        C#/Eb     E
Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on
B                     
Can you carry my drink I have everything else
     B/Ab
I can tie my tie all by myself
       C#/Eb             E
I’m getting tied, I’m forgetting why

B                               B/Ab
Oh we’re so disarming darling, everything we did believe
   C#/Eb                       E
is diving diving diving diving off the balcony
B                              Em
Tired and wired we ruin too easy
C#/Eb                                    E
sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave

B                             B/Ab                 C#/Eb            E
Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours
B
While it sings to itself or whatever it does
        B/Ab
when it sings to itself of its long lost loves
       C#/Eb             E
I’m getting tied, I’m forgetting why

B                               Em
Tired and wired we ruin too easy
C#/Eb                               E  
sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave
B                               Em               B
but I’ll be with you behind the couch when they come
                             Em
on a different day just like this one

B
We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us
B/Ab
do whatever the TV tells us
C#/Eb                       E
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days

B
We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us
B/Ab
do whatever the TV tells us
C#/Eb                       E
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz

B
so worry not
Em
all things are well
B
we’ll be alright
             Em
we have our looks and perfume

B
stay inside til somebody finds us
B/Ab
do whatever the TV tells us
C#/Eb                       E
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz

B
so worry not
Em
all things are well
B
we’ll be alright
             Em
we have our looks and perfume on
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