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THE FATE OF THE WORLD DEPENDS ON THIS KISS - Whitehorse
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Tabbed by: Wil-Man-101 at Ultimate-Guitar
Revised May 30, 2013 and again Feb 10, 2015
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
p Pull-off
~ Let ring
(C) C is what would be played if any instruments were playing
Parentheses show who s singing. (Not 100% accurate)
( ) Just Melissa
[ ] Just Luke
No parentheses means both are singing.
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ACHILLES DESIRE
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Capo 5
X00221
X00211
X00201
X02110
INTRO:
VERSE 1:
...
[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
Walk with me, walk with me, walk with me, walk
...
I got a girl from the burbs who won t talk
I don t have much but I got the good stuff]
VERSE 1:
(I don t know why but you make me sweat
When trouble comes calling, I m packing my bags for the west
I ll give you nothing for nothing if that s what you desire
I ll let it cool if you light my fire
Bumper shine my way home
Bumper shine my way home)
CHORUS:
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
VERSE 2:
...
[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]
Fall with me, fall with me, fall with me
Fall through the waist of the hourglass, fall
[I don t have much but I am a rich man]
CHORUS:
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
INTERLUDE - verse 2 chords
CHORUS:
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
CHORUS:
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
Am...
The pull of a moth to the fire
...
Your Achilles desire
Am (let ring)
I don t have much
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DEVIL S GOT A GUN
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INTRO:
VERSE:
Look out, this thing is gonna blow
I heard it from the people in the know
There s trouble in the tenements below
There s fire where the flowers used to grow
CHORUS:
I m never going back
I m running from the sun
Bullets at my heels
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
VERSE:
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:
I m never going back
I m running from the sun
Bullets at my heels
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
BRIDGE:
Help me, I know not who I see
I m a stranger to the face looking back at me
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
INTRO
VERSE:
It s down to the second hand
The tick-tock is more than you can stand
The grinders and the wheels they never sleep
We re fighting to the bottom of the deep
CHORUS:
I m never going back
I m running from the sun
Bullets at my heels
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
Daylight on my tail
G C (let ring)
And Heaven on the run
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MISMATCHED EYES (BOAT SONG)
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Simplified intro/verse tab:
e|3-1p0-1-|3-1p0-1-|
VERSE:
[Is it the list and the sway
...
Is it the roll and the pitch]
(The drunken Gulf of Mexico
...
Or the seven-year itch)
[I hear the mating calls of fireflies
...
Some celestial blues]
(And they re bringing me around again
...
And that s something I can use)
[Now I see] nothing but the water
...
And it s falling from my face
[It is the face] (It is the face)
...
[It is the face] (It is the face)
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
INSTRUMENTAL OUTRO - verse chords
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PETERBILT COALMINE
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INTRO:
VERSE:
[I been eyeing up a coalmine baby
I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and
I been listening to the radio sometimes
And it s making my backbone wilt]
I been dreaming of the mighty, mighty Red
And the thatched roof hut that I d put on it and
You gotta figure there s a local round the bend
With a shattered red bar stool and my name s on it
CHORUS 1:
Has the record stopped
Spinning?
Has the other boot dropped?
Is my punk flame burning
Out?
INTERLUDE - same chords as intro
VERSE:
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
CHORUS 2:
Has the record stopped
Spinning?
Has the other boot dropped?
Is my punk flame burning out?
And has the band moved on
And left me on the farm?
Is my rock n roll nerve all spent
Just a flaming heart on an old man s arm
INTERLUDE/SOLO - same chords as intro
CHORUS 2
VERSE:
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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X02020
A5 0022X0 (or power chord)
D5 X00235 (or power chord)
x02120
243222
The D in the verses might be Dmaj7 |X00222|
INTRO:
VERSE:
(Cold snap apathy
Killer hypothermic heart)
I read you like calloused Braille
Hieroglyphics in the snow
(We ll get by)
CHORUS:
(It s been a) cold
Cold July
(It s been a) cold
Cold July
VERSE:
(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
BRIDGE PART 1:
(January, February) [Snow drop pickups and _]
(Spring forward, keep me warm) [Sleigh bell forest fire]
(April showers fall back down) [In your garden then it ll _ an alibi]
(Love letters in the snow)
BRIDGE PART 2:
Oh, for the love of it
Or just the hell of it
Just sink your claws in it
Set me on fire
(CHORUS)
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JANE
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Since this song is electronic, these chords are approximations.
021000
020000
022020
INTRO:
VERSE:
Jane, she gets so close
...
Jane, she gets so close
Jane, you know, she ll never let go
PART 2:
If you want her
...
You can have her
...
It don t matter
She s a wrecking ball
VERSE:
Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you know, you re gonna get caught
PART 3:
One more last clean slate
Count your pennies, say your prayers
Everybody burns
Crawl through all the endless layers
VERSE:
Jane don t lose your jam
Don t underestimate your hand
Play the ace, don t show it on your face
PART 2:
Keep the jack
You re the queen
Take the chips
To the cash machine
VERSE:
Jane you hurt so good
Like all the B-movie harlots would
Play the part, take the body, not the heart
PART 3:
Face down in the mire
Hidden with the hearts for hire
Everybody knows
But you and it shows
INTERLUDE - part 3 chords, then verse chords, then:
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
X03210
VERSE:
(C)
(I m not yours
(E)
You are mine
Let that sink in
Like the Mary Rose
She went down
With a heavy load
But who is this fading flower?
Mm-mm)
CHORUS:
Come to life
In the spring
I was shaking
from your sting
You should know
In like lamb
Out like a lion
(I came in)
Like a lamb
Out like a lion
C---
VERSE:
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
INTERLUDE/SOLO:
(CHORUS)
(I came in)
Like a lamb
Out like a lion
(x2)
OUTRO - chorus chords
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NO GLAMOUR IN THE HAMMER
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020000
022020
INTRO:
VERSE:
(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)
When your motorchair stalls tell the cop you ve seen it all)
CHORUS 1:
There s no getting out of this one
There s no getting out of this
INTERLUDE - chorus chords
VERSE:
(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 2:
There s no getting out of this one
There s no getting out of this
You got a camouflage lover
And a bulletproof kiss
BRIDGE (instrumental):
VERSE:
(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 2
And a bulletproof kiss
OUTRO - chorus chords
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RADIATOR BLUES
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Square and circle brackets combined means both are singing.
This song is probably best played in some odd tuning.
022400
E7 XX9700 (high voicing)
INTRO:
VERSE:
[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:
[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
I want the heat, I want the roller coaster]
VERSE:
Please put your body in my bed
And your pretty little head
Whisper me things you d never dare
I can take you there
CHORUS:
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
BRIDGE:
Where have you been, baby?
Off to the far side and sitting on the beach
In some faraway land that never
Ends
When you coming back, baby?
I got the radiator blues
But I won t ever leave you cold
VERSE:
[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])
OUTRO - verse chords
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ANNIE LU
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Tuning: Probably DADGAD or DGCFAD. Written here in standard.
XX0330
INTRO:
VERSE:
[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
VERSE:
[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?
OUTRO:
(repeat)
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WISCONSIN
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Capo 2
VERSE:
They re busting unions in Wisconsin
We got mojitos by the pool
We got a talent for distraction
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
CHORUS 1:
Time is moving on
There s no marching band
Just some fuzzed out credits, names of strangers,
And a nightcap in your hair
INTERLUDE - verse chords
VERSE
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-
CHORUS 2:
Night I had a dream
You were there
Weaving through the burrows/boroughs
Down the high line with daisies in your hair
VERSE:
They re busting unions in Toronto
GUITAR SOLO
CHORUS 3:
I m coming down
From wishful thinking and the like
I m sober as a judge
But the jury s out drinking tonight
INTERLUDE - verse chords
VERSE:
They re busting unions in Wisconsin
And praising Jesus in the schools
They keeping science in the bat
Speaking tongues and making fools
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MEXICO TEXACO
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Em9 022002
F#7 242322
INTRO:
Em9 Em9 F# F#
F#7 F#7
VERSE:
(Sometimes I just
F#
I can t help but think
There s a particular way
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
CHORUS 1:
Why can t I take this car
And drive it to Mexico?
We ll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe
Where we ll run out of gas
VERSE:
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
CHORUS 2:
Why can t I take this car
And drive it to Mexico?
We ll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe
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
Sweet soft breath
Why can t I take this car...
Why can t I take this bird...
OUTRO: (repeat, end on Am)
