Armchairs tab by Andrew Bird

Tabs

Hey - here's the tab for Armchairs from Armchair Apocrypha. The chord changes are
close but not completely lined up right (this kind of took forever). Its a pretty
song and there are lots more licks and probably a few chord changes, but this should be
at least. Enjoy


Intro Part

(at 0:45)
E MajorE|----0------0------0---------------|
BB|---------------------------0------|
G+G|--------------------------0-------|
D MajorD|-------------------------0--------|
A augmentedA|------------------------2---------|
E MajorE|-1-----3------1------1h3----------|

(at 1:00)
E MajorE|--------------------------------------|
BB|---------1-------1-------1-------1----|
G+G|--------0-------0-------0-------0-----|
D MajorD|-------2-------2-------2-------2------|
A augmentedA|2---3-------0-------2-------0---------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------|

C majorC     G+G

C majorC
I dreamed you were a cosmonaut
G+G
of the space between our chairs
C majorC
And I was a cartographer
G+G
of the tangles in your hair

FF
I sang the song that silence sings
FF                      C majorC
It's the one that everybody knows, everybody knows

The song that silence sings
          G+G
And this is how it goes

(2nd fill)

C majorC
These looms that weave apocrypha
G+G
they're hanging from a strand
C majorC
The dark and empty rooms were full
G+G
of incandescent hands

FF
The awkward pause
FF
The fatal flaw
FF
Time, it's a crooked bow
         C majorC
Time is a crooked bow

C majorC
In time you need to learn, to love
           G+G
The ebb just like the flow
D7D7        B5B5            E minorEm
Grab hold of your bootstraps, and pull like hell
               A minorAm         D MajorD
until gravity feels sorry for you, and lets you go
     G+G              C majorC   C/BC/B
As if you lack the proper chemicals to know, oh
 A minorAm                B5B5      FF
the way it felt the last time you let yourself fall this low

         C majorC
Time's a crooked bow
        F#/D7
Time's a crooked bow
           FF   G+G  C majorC
Time, it's a crooked bow

FF        G+G
Fifty-five and three-eighths years later
FF        G+G
At the bottom of a gigantic crater
FF          G+G
An armchair calls to you
     FF         G+G
Yeah, this armchair calls to you
    C majorC
It says, someday, we'll get back at them all
             G+G
With epoxy and a pair of pliers
C majorC
As ancient sea slugs begin to crawl
G+G
through the ragweed and barbed wire

C majorC
You didn't write
      G+G
You didn't call
FF              G+G
It didn't cross your mind at all
C majorC
Through the waves
         G+G
waves of hay and straw
FF              G+G
You couldn't feel a thing at all
FF
Fifty-five and three-eighths
G+G
Time
Fifty-five and three-eighths
Time
Time