Winds Dark Poem chords by Mount Eerie

Chords with lyrics

I mean, firstly the song is something of an exercise in dissonance,
I am fairly sure there are different chords layered all over themselves,
the most notable being the AbmAbm with the C#m,
and the BB with an F#5F#5 rumbling beneath it,
but here I have opted for the chord that makes the most sense,
and which can be played on one guitar and sung along to.

So necessarily this tab has ended up being a combination of things,
a video of Phil performing an acoustic version helped,
but I tried to make this reflect the studio version,
with that being the most familiar.

The timing of the post-wind noise section,
it is a bit off-kilter in the acoustic thing,
so the chords here are mapped to the studio-recorded vocals.

Enjoy.

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THERE ARE LITTLE BITS IN THE VERSES SOMETIMES HERE THEY ARE:


(1)

e|------|
b|------|
g|-3----|---slight bend on the g string
d|----4-|
a|------|
e|------|

(2)

e|------|
b|------|
g|-4--3-|---go ahead and whack a slight bend on these too
d|------|
a|------|
e|------|


I WILL REFER TO THEM BELOW AS (1) AND (2)
IT IS THE EASIEST WAY I COULD THINK TO DO IT


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The intro is a frantically picked AbmAbm for about 30 seconds,
then this happens:

e|-------------------------|
b|-------------------5~~~~~|
g|-9--8--------11-8--6~~~~~|
d|-------6~~~~~------6~~~~~|
a|-7--6--6~~~~~9--6--4~~~~~|
e|-------4~~~~~------------|

Carry on frantically picking C# minorC#m for a while,
then two single massive strums of Abm,
and then...

      AbmAbm         BB
...voice of wind, the air in the branches

  (1)    E MajorE          AbmAbm
Sounded like words, whispering a spell on me

 (2)  E MajorE
Until I heard

     AbmAbm
Now I see shapes in the low light

     BB
The earth quakes in the twilight

   C# minorC#m
I see flames in my calm life

           E MajorE
Hear the wind's dark poem


(((frantic AbmAbm picking with violent wind, if there is some nearby)))


    AbmAbm
You can see from above, the rocks sticking out of

  BB                   (1)
the yard behind the house make stone constellations,

E MajorE                    EbmEbm   EbM7Ebm7
  half-buried in the dusk, the unformed stories

     AbmAbm
coming to life while I sleep.

                 BB
The breath moves branches saying words that I don't know,

      (1) E MajorE
a new poem,     a song I sang in a dream.

  EbmEbm          EbM7Ebm7
The lights of town faint,

        AbmAbm
something is exhaling in the sound of traffic far away.

       BB               (1)
Something is happening. Wind's dark poem describes,

E MajorE                        EbmEbm     EbM7Ebm7
  calligraphy of branches writes, stone constellation alive.

            AbmAbm          BB
The house is built on a boulder, soil returns to the wind.

         (1)
Bones will blow in pink light.

E MajorE
  The distant sound is saying my name,

EbmEbm           EbM7Ebm7
   the wind is taking pieces.

AbmAbm                      AbmAbm
   Wind's dark poem is about the constantly roaring decay

                 F#5F#5
The destruction of every day, and every morning's waking.


(((stop playing, sing against the gentle hum of silence)))


But even as spring is bringing blossoms back among leaves,
the cold wind blows when night falls,
and the bare branches bend.


(((gentle hum of silence becomes tidal wave of sound)))