• Song:

    The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss Album

  • Artist:

    Whitehorse

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Tabbed by: Wil-Man-101

I wrote this out using a baritone uke, so a few minor things may be incorrect.

TRACKS
1.  Achilles Desire
2.  Devil's Got a Gun
3.  Mismatched Eyes (Boat Song)
4.  Peterbilt Coalmine
5.  Cold July
6.  Jane
7.  Out Like a Lion
8.  No Glamour in the Hammer
9.  Radiator Blues
10. Annie Lu
11. Wisconsin
12. Mexico Texaco

KEY
... Continue playing the last chord
/   Slide
~   Let ring
C.  Play C for one beat
Parentheses show who's singing. (Not 100% accurate)
( ) Just Melissa
[ ] Just Luke


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                             ACHILLES' DESIRE
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Capo 5

Dm7M    X00221
Dm7     X00211
Dm6     X00201

INTRO: Am

...
[I don't have much but I got the good stuff
...
I keep it tucked away where you can find it if you've got the guts
Dm
Walk with me, walk with me, walk with me, walk
...
I got a girl from the 'burbs who won't talk
             Am
I don't have much but I got the good stuff]


...
(I don't know why but you make me sweat
...
When trouble comes calling, I'm packing my bags for the west
Dm
I'll give you nothing for nothing if that's what you desire
...
I'll let it cool if you light my fire
Am
Bumper shine my way home
...
Bumper shine my way home)


CHORUS 1:
C              G        D             A
All the square pegs and all the round holes
C            G         D          A
Couldn't fit all of the stories you told
    C                     G
The pull of a moth to the fire
                 Am
Your Achilles' desire


...
[I don't have much but I am a rich man
...
I got a woman down from the Park Ridge who is finer than sand]
Dm             Dm7M           Dm7
Fall with me, fall with me, fall with me
Dm6            Dm         Dm7M      Dm7   Dm6
Fall through the waist of the hourglass, fall
Am
[I don't have much but I am a rich man]

A second-hand gypsy is no fading flower
Fingers are frozen in furious power
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire

Cold, cold sweat on the back of my knees
The future runs in on the Assiniboine breeze
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire

All the square pegs and all the round holes
Couldn't fit all of the stories you told
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire

The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire

I don't have much


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                             DEVIL'S GOT A GUN
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INTRO: Am-E--Am-

Am                            E
Look out, this thing is gonna blow
                                  Am
I heard it from the people in the know
                                   E
There's trouble in the tenements below
                                       Am
There's fire where the flowers used to grow

CHORUS:
C         G    Am
I'm never going back
                     C
I'm running from the sun
              F
Bullets at my heels
                  C
The Devil's got a gun
I'm never going home
I'll be the only one
With daylight on my tail
And Heaven on the run

Rain is jumping up into the clouds
A girl has ceased to make her father proud
Lovers wrapped up in cellophane
The bitter fruit has fallen from its prey

CHORUS

C                         G
Help me, I know not who I see
      Dm                           C
I'm a stranger to the face looking back at me
       F                     C                       G
When a company of sisters is just like any mystery to me
Hold me, I know not who I am
If I'm a woman, you're a creature, not a man
The eyes of a lover- they look like any other to me

It's down to the second hand
The tick-tock is more than you can stand
The grinders and the wheels they never see
We're fighting to the bottom of the deep

CHORUS

Daylight on my tail
And Heaven on the run


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                             MISMATCHED EYES (BOAT SONG)
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Capo 3

Simplified intro/verse:
  A        F#m
e | 0------- | 0------- | 
B | --3/2-3- | --3/2-3- | 

           A
[Is it the list and the sway
...
Is it the roll and the pitch]
F#m
(The drunken Gulf of Mexico
...
Or he seven-year itch)
            A
[I hear the mating calls of fireflies
...
Some celestial blues]
             F#m
(And they're bringing me around again
...
And that's something I can use)
            E
[Now I see] nothing but the water
...
And it's falling from my face


           G
[It is the face] (It is the face)
...
[It is the face] (It is the face) 
          D
I want to show you


[Will I remember to remember 
That without I'm a shadow]
(Of a drifter and a barfly 
And whatever else you had to be)
[It's true I've come around 
Now I can even touch my toes]
(And all the running and the talking-
Yeah, now everybody knows)
[You never] speak but I can hear you
As you sing out from your mismatched eyes

[They are the eyes] (They are the eyes)
[They are the eyes] 
I will to die with

[We're on a boat out on the ocean
And there's nothing more to share]
(We've gone from one wave to another
And back again a where)
[We go where guitars are hung over
And the songs are fast asleep]
(I feel the flesh wounds in my heart
But they are mine for me to keep)
[In your] pocket or your fist
Or in your mind but they come to you [by your ears]

(They are the ears) [They are the ears]
(They are the ears) 
That I will sing to


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                             PETERBILT COALMINE
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INTRO: Am--F--Dm--C-G-

Am
   [I been eyeing up a coalmine baby
F
   I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and
Dm
   I been listening to the radio sometimes
Am                    G
   And it's making my backbone wilt]


Am
   I been dreaming of the mighty, mighty Red
F
   And the thatched roof hut that I'd put on it and
Dm
   You gotta figure there's a local 'round the bend
          C                        G
   With a shattered red barstool and my name's on it


C
   Has the record stopped
   Em
   Spinning?
Dm
   Has the other boot dropped?
         G          F
   Is my punk flame burning
   C    F.F.C.
   Out?

I keep my eye upon the Bluejay flying
From your collar to your hipbone baby
I don't expect it to be on you always
But surprise me with it one day maybe

The way you did when I came in from the cold
And nothing on you but a devil-wide grin and
I don't imagine I could tire of the act but/echo
What a lonely, lonely road it's been

BisS A :
C
   Has the record stopped
   Em
   Spinning?
Dm
   Has the other boot dropped?
         G          Ab (maybe Bb )
   Is my punk flame burning out?
C
   And has the band moved on
      Em
   And left me on the farm?
Dm
   Is my rock 'n' roll nerve all spent
          G                   F                C   F.F.C.
   Just a flaming heart on an old man's arm

BisS Ab

I been eyeing up a coalmine baby
I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and
I been listening to the radio sometimes...


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                             COLD JULY
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A7      X02020
A5      0022X0 (or power chord)
D5      X00235
Am7     x02120
F#m6    243222

INTRO: A - D-

 A
(Cold snap apathy
D
Killer hypothermic heart)
  A
I read you like calloused Braille
D                         E
Hieroglyphics in the snow
           D
(We'll get by)


CHORUS:
              A    A7
(It's been a) cold
       D
Cold July
(It's been a) cold
Cold July

(Breeze past the corridor
Radiator on the fritz)
We walked down to see the melted mess
Snow to slush at the Charleswood Lagoon
(Frozen dry)

CHORUS

A5
(January, February) [Snow drop pickups and _]
D5
(Spring forward, keep me warm ) [Sleigh bell forest fire]
Bm           E
(April showers fall back down) [In your garden then it'll _ an alibi]
D
(Love letters in the snow)

A - Am7-

F#m         D7        F#m
Oh, for the love of it
            D7         F#m
Or just the hell of it
               F#m6
Just sink your claws in it
A         D
Set me on fire

(CHORUS)


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                                JANE
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Since this song is electronic, these chords are approximations.

EmM7    021000
Em7     020000
Em6     022020

INTRO: E5

Em
Jane, she gets so close
...
Jane, she gets so close
Em        EmM7         Em7      Em6
Jane, you know, she'll never let go

        
       Am
If you want her
...
You can have her
...
It don't matter
                 Em
She's a wrecking ball


Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you know, you're gonna get caught


C                   Em
One more last clean slate
F                   G       Ab
Count your pennies, say your prayers
C         Em
Everybody burns
F                     Ab
Crawl through all the endless layers


Jane don't lose your jam
Don't underestimate your hand
Play the ace, don't show it on your face

Keep the jack
You're the queen
Take the chips 
To the cash machine

Jane you hurt so good
Like all the B-movie harlots would
Play the part, take the body, not the heart

Face down in the mire
Hidden with the hearts for hire
Everybody knows 
But you and it shows


Actual verse parts:
A | --------2------- | --------2---3--- | 
E | 0-----0-----3--- | 0-----0--------- | 

D | 2-----2-1-----1- | 0-----0--------- | ---------------- | ---------------- | 
A | ---------------- | --------4-----4- | 0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ~~--0-1-2------- | 
E | ---------------- | ---------------- | ---------------- | --3---------3--- | 


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                             OUT LIKE A LION
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Capo 5

Fm7     X03210

         ( C )
(I'm not yours
        ( E )
You are mine
              Am Fm7
Let that sink in
              C    G
Like the Mary Rose
She went down
With a heavy load
But who is this fading flower?
Mm-mm )


CHORUS:
        C
Come to life
       E
In the spring
      Am
I was shaking
          Fm7
from your sting
You should know
In like lamb
Out like a lion
(I came in)
Like a lamb
Out like a lion

C---

We grew up
So we were told
Time just leaves us
Out in the cold
Seasons change
I'm getting warm
A feline in mohair
Mm-mm

CHORUS

(CHORUS)

(I came in) 
Like a lamb
Out like a lion
(x2)


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                             NO GLAMOUR IN THE HAMMER
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Em7     020000
Em6     022020

INTRO: Em - G - A - C-

            Em             G              A             C
(There's no glamour in the hammer but they sell it at the Big 'n' Tall
Em - G - A - C-
              Em          G          A                      C
They'll fit a king like a prince in a joker's pair of coveralls
Em - G - A - C-
          C                          G                      B
When your motorchair stalls tell the cop you've seen it all)


                          Em       Em7 - Em6-
There's no getting out of this one
           C              Em   Em7 - Em6 - C
There's no getting out of this


(Got no Ambien, no Secondal, no genie in a lithium bottle
Just a first aid kit and a suicidal lingerie model
Keep the trunk locked up, rev the engine, hammer the throttle)

CHORUS:
There's no getting out of this one
There's no getting out of this
You got a camouflage lover
And a bulletproof kiss

Am--D-F-

(Way up on the escarpment, on a good day you can see the smokestacks
Down below St Joe's spilling over with heart attacks
Down the east steps Fitzcaraldo covers up your tracks)

CHORUS
And a bulletproof kiss


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                            RADIATOR BLUES
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E5      022400
E *      XX9700

INTRO: E5 - E *-

 E5
(You've got those far away eyes
               E *
Baby, far away eyes
And I've got these radiator blues
Baby, what am I to do?


[CHORUS]:
A
Let's not talk about much tonight
...
Just move to the silence in the lone starlight
...
Hold me by the hands and bring your body closer
                            B
I want the heat, I want the roller coaster


Please put your body in my bed
And your pretty little head
Whisper me things you'd never dare
I can take you there

I been waiting too long for the this
The touch of your fingers and your sweet, sweet kiss
Hold me in your gaze until my mind is weak
You are the medicine that I seek

G
Where have you been, baby?
C                       D
Off to the far side and sitting on the beach
        Em
In some faraway land that never 
C    
Ends
G
When you coming back, baby?
C                  D
I got the radiator blues
            Em             C--D-D#-
But I won't ever leave you cold


(You've got those far away eyes
Baby, far away eyes
And I've got these radiator blues
Baby, what am I to do?)

CHORUS


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                             ANNIE LU
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Tuning: Probably in DADGAD or DGCFAD. Written here in standard.

D * (D9/#5)   XX0330

INTRO: D - Gm - D - D *

    D                  Gm       D    D *
(The clouds- they moved in on the hour
It's a part of this town I despise
But if it should yield but one small, snow-white flower
And one happy tear in your eye

Then let it come down, let it fall, give us rain
And I'll thank the almighty powers
'Cause one precious drop from those glorious pools 
You call eyes is all I require)

CHORUS:
Annie Lu, Annie Lu
Won't you save me from you
'Cause that's a whole lotta love for one little boy
I'll love you until no more loving can be

Annie Lu, Annie Lu, Annie Lu

(If you should ever just up and go
Won't you spare me the agony of watching you leave?
'Cause my heart might go off like a pistol
And make a dead man out of me)

CHORUS

Annie Lu, won't you bring back my heart?


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                             WISCONSIN
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Capo 2

                          Am
They're busting unions in Wisconsin
                      C
We got mojitos by the pool
                       Dm
We got a talent for distraction
                   Am            E
No reaction to the colic and the cruel


They're sinking battleships at midnight
We change the channel on a dime
When they break to a commercial
Dress rehearsal in our catatonic prime/crime

               F
Time is moving on
                    C
There's no marching band
                     Dm
Just some fuzzed out credits, names of strangers,
      Am               E
And a nightcap in your hair


They're digging ditches in Zuccoti
We're getting famous by the hour
All our pirates are Johnny, not Somali
trading bad seeds for flowers

Everybody's got a ticket and a backstage pass
Everybody's going somewhere someday
Even the mighty- they won't last-

Night I had a dream
You were there
Weaving through the burrows/burroughs
                        E
Down the high line with daisies in your hair


They're busting unions in Toronto

I'm coming down
From wishful thinking and the like
I'm sober as a judge
                   E            F
But the jury's out drinking tonight


They're busting unions in Wisconsin
And praising Jesus in the schools
They keeping science in the basement
                            E
Speaking tongues and making fools


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                             MEXICO TEXACO
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Em9     022002
F#7     242322

INTRO:
Em(b9)-F#--Am-D-Em--
Em--F#7--Am-D-Em--

             Em
(Sometimes I just
                 F#
I can't help but think
             Am          D
There's a particular way
                Em
For an angel to sleep)


With her head just so
Turned up unaware
That you're standing there watching her dream
Something frightfully beautiful

Em9

            G
Why can't I take this car
                D
And drive it to Mexico?
            Am              F
We'll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe
                       Em
Where we'll run out of gas

F

I wonder why
It scares me to death
You tell me everything you ever thought about
Love was a lie

(I should be struck dumb)
Happily insane
But the man in my head recommends against 
Paving my history

Why can't I take this car
And drive it to Mexico?
We'll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe
                       G
Where we'll run out of gas
Why can't I take this bird
And fly her to Jupiter?
Pit stop in Venus, stare back at the Earth
While she catches her
Em    D    G      E - Am- - D--
Sweet soft breath


            Em   D    G - E - Am- - D--
Why can't I take this car...
Why can't I take this bird...

(End on Am )
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