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CARRION - British Sea Power
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A beautiful song, with some close, but not quite there tabs. I hope you enjoy it.
Tuning: Standard
Guitar I: Lead (Noble)
Guitar II: Rhythm (Yan)
Chords (I prefer the open chords, but barre chords can be used as well)
G D Bm C Cmaj7 Em
e|------3-------2-------2-------0--------0-----------0-----------------------|
B|------0-------3-------3-------1--------0-----------0-----------------------|
G|------0-------2-------4-------0--------0-----------0-----------------------|
D|------0-------0-------4-------2--------2-----------2-----------------------|
A|------2---------------2-------3--------3-----------2-----------------------|
E|------3--------------------------------------------0-----------------------|
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Main Riff:
C G Em
e|------------------------------ ------------------7-5-----------------------|
B|------------------------------ --------------5-8-----8---------------------|
G|---4^5~4^5~4^5~4^5~4^5~-2--0-- x6 --/7-4-7-4-7----------------------------|
D|------------------------------ --------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------ --------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------ --------------------------------------------|
The first phrase is played over a different chord after every repeat. First over C, then
then G, then Em, then C, then D
Verse 1:
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7 (hyphen means quick change)
Carrion, inside of your heart
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
Under the brine, you won't notice the dark
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
Can stone and steel, and horses' heels ever explain the way you feel
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
From Scapa Flow to Rotherhithe, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Bridge:
G D Bm C
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------4^5------4^5------4^5-2-0-----------------------------------|
D|--0h2------0h2------0h2-------------0-4^5----0-4^5-----0-4^5-4/5/7|
A|----------------------------------2-------2---------2---------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7 (Notes and chords change together)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-5-4--5-4--5-4-----------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus:
C D
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
G Em
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
C D
Always, always, always the sea
G Em
Brilliantine mortality
Main Riff (Repeat first phrase only twice)
Verse 2:
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
So irrigate your heart until you know you're complete
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
And your draped in kelp, below by 8,000 feet
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
"My soul," she cried, "I thought you'd died amid fumes of formaldehyde"
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7
You have been gone for so long. I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Bridge 2 (with lyrics):
G D Bm C
My love, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide!
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------4^5------4^5------4^5-2-0-----------------------------------|
D|--0h2------0h2------0h2-------------0-4^5----0-4^5-----0-4^5-4/5/7|
A|----------------------------------2-------2---------2---------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7 (Notes and chords change together)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-5-4--5-4--5-4------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus
Main Riff
Solo:
e|-----7/12-12-12-12-12-10-10-10-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------------|
B|-----5h8-5h8-5h8/10^11^11^11^11^11^11^11|
G|----------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------|
Interlude:
C D G Em
When this corpus christic isle became a landed ocean blue
C D
Again she cried, "You turned my eye"
G Em
At mentions of "no matter why"
(First phrase of Main Riff repeated for the rest of Interlude and First Chorus)
C D
And in the end an August sun
G Em
Of one by one it blew
C D
Until the devil screamed in the evermore
G Em
In envy of the grace we saw
G
The sound (Chorus starts here making the rest of the Interlude lyrics unintelligible)
Chorus:
C D
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
G Em
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
C D
Always, always, always the sea
G Em
Brilliantine mortality
C D
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
G Em
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
C D
Always, always, always the sea
G (Guitar stops)
Brilliantine mortality
In summation:
Main Riff
Verse
Bridge
Chorus
Main Riff (Shortened)
Verse
Bridge 2
Chorus
Main Riff
Solo
Interlude
Chorus (x2)
Note: There is a quick chord from Guitar I after the first and third lines of the
I don't know what it is. Also, The lyrics of the interlude are hard to distinguish, so those
my approximations. Enjoy.
| ^ bend
| / slide up
| slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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