Frontier Ruckus - Silverfishes

      

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 Silverfishes - Frontier Ruckus

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 Tabbed by: 3lacksabbath81
 Email: sskinner@wit.edu
 
 Deadmalls & Nightfalls: Track 5
 
 Matthew Milia: songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel
 David W. Jones: banjo, voice, dobro
 Zachary Nichols: brass, singing-saw, melodica, keyboards
 Ryan Etzcorn: drums, percussion
 
 Tuning: Standard
 
 Intro: OTHERCHORDS
 
 Am C C# D(no5) Fmaj7 Em Riff A (A) A/C#

 e||--0--|--0--|-----|-----|--0--|-----|--------|| |--0----0----0----|
 B||--1--|--1--|--2--|--3--|--1--|--0--|-----0--|| |--2----5----8----|
 G||--2--|--0--|--0--|--0--|--2--|--0--|----(0)-|x2 |--2----6----9----|
 D||--2--|--2--|--3--|--4--|--3--|--2--|--------|| |--2----7----11---|
 A||--0--|--3--|--4--|--5--|-----|--2--|-2h3----|| |--0--------------|
 E||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--0--|--------|| |-----------------|
 

 
 Verse I:
 
 Am                                                   C  
 A bright-night-kitchen moth and the washcloth that I use
 C# D(no5)
 For the refuse
         Fmaj7                 Em   
 That is littering all of your clues
 Am C C# D(no5)
 Orion is dead and gone but something in it still be-longs to me
     Fmaj7          Em 
 The bright night I see
 Am                                  
 High hot-time all the braggarts drag
       C                      C# 
 Their boats down to the water
 D(no5)
 She dragged down to drown each and every
 Fmaj7              Em 
 Brown rag I bought her
 Am                                      
 The silverfish they ditch their skins as
     C                     C# 
 The Saturday air raid beg-ins
 D(no5)
 Pitching exoskeletons
 Fmaj7              Em     
 Revolting in their molting
 Am                              
 Dont you know Im just like that?
 C                             C# 
 You can tell where Ive been at
 D(no5)
 On every doormat I have sat
   Fmaj7       Em   
 A relic so an-gelic
 Dm                           
 Oh the once hard-biting night
     D                               Fmaj7 Em 
 Now ruthlessly a toothless sight to see
 
 Verse II:
 
 Am                                           C     
 A shot down Telegraph with a hot laugh as we cruise
 C# D(no5)
 Through the sinews
 Fmaj7                  Em   
 Connecting all of your clues
 Am                          
 The blinds they clap for the
             C                 
 The napping overheated tangles
 D                                              
 Daytime may climb high until the dusk sucks out
 
 All that it mangles
 Am                            
 Melting with the blacktop moms
      C                      C# 
 On a bed of palms and psalms
 D                       
 Immersed in the universe
    Fmaj7              Em     
 Of off-ramp proms and sitcoms
 Dm                        
 Sylvan Lake and in between
 D                         Fmaj7 
 Perpetually like Halloween
       Em 
 I saw you
 Am                                C    
 In the dormitory with the warming glory
               C# 
 Of the harvest
 D                                       
 The pilings of the night are whiling out
             Fmaj7         Em     
 Where their forms are the largest
 
 Bridge:
 
 Am C D(no5) Fmaj7 Em

 e|----------------|
 B|----------------|
 G|----------------|
 D|------0---------|
 A|---3-----3--2~--|
 E|----------------|
 

 
 F                            
 Feeling about half as vicious
 Em                      A    
 As all the silverfishes crawl
 F                     
 If I truly am a coward
 Em                            
 Memory-fueled and fear-powered
 A  (A) A/C#  
 Ill be damned
 
     F    Em  
 But if I were
      C        D   
 That gorgeous blur
 Dm Em 
 Id be
 Am  
 Sure
 
 Horn & Banjo Solo Section: Play verse Chords four times through. 2 bars for horn and 2
 bars for banjo.
 
 
 Verse III:
 
 Am                                                   C  
 A bright-night-kitchen moth and the washcloth that I use
 C# D(no5)
 For the refuse
         Fmaj7                 Em   
 That is littering all of your clues
 
 Am                          
 Tripped up on the alley-weed
 C                           C#   
 Through which I elbowed and kneed
     D                        
 The bottle of my beer emptied
     Fmaj7          Em   
 And I was warm and fluid
 Am                           
 The body is a bottle, I guess
 C                              C# 
 That I would like to throttle, yes
 D                            
 Mottled skin and spilling sin
       Fmaj7       Em    
 And a holiness so stupid
     Dm                       
 The heaven that I long to see
     D               
 The undone linearity
     Fmaj7 Em 
 Ive pro- ven
 Dm                               
 Is all the love Ive tried to show
 D                                
 Buried where those buildings glow
 Fmaj7 Em (Riff)
 And ruined?
 
 Am(let ring)
 
 Sources:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6kG7MpWfA
 http://www.frontierruckus.com/songbook/
 
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 | h hammer-on
 | p pull-off
 | ~ vibrato
 | b Bend
 
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