The Depression Suite tab by The Tragically Hip

Tabs

Artist: The Tragically Hip
Album: We Are the Same
Tabbed By: Joe Blixt
First off: Try different voicing’s for the chords and see what you like, I like
 using ----*-----| instead of an open D MajorD to get a
----7------------| more chunky sound without
----7------------| too much bass
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Intro: A augmentedA E MajorE D MajorD A augmentedA

A augmentedA E MajorE
Under the pillow
D MajorD A augmentedA
I bury my head and try to shut Chicago out
A augmentedA E MajorE
As it turns out there's a whole other world of sounds
D MajorD A augmentedA
Of perfect fifths low skids and Arctic howls

A augmentedA F# minorF#m
All saying are you going through something?
A augmentedA F# minorF#m
Are you going through something?

A augmentedA E MajorE
Under the pillow a little room to breathe
D MajorD A augmentedA
the early morning light's a pale cranberry
A augmentedA E MajorE
I hear the Aaa-aah-aah not now-wow-wow
D MajorD A augmentedA
Of a siren faraway and closing steadily
A augmentedA F# minorF#m
Saying are you going through something?
A augmentedA F# minorF#m
Are you going through something?
E MajorE D MajorD A augmentedA
Cuz I-I-I-I I am too

A augmentedA E MajorE
Under the pillow
D MajorD A augmentedA
I can hear you whisperin' are you going through something?
A augmentedA F# minorF#m
Well honey are you going through something?
A augmentedA F# minorF#m
Are you going through something?
E MajorE D MajorD A augmentedA
Then I-I-I-I I am too
Then I-I-I-I I am too

Strings:
#1
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#2
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#1
Then I-I-I-I
#2
I am too

#1
Gimme gimme gimme gimme-gimme
Gimme an opportunity gimme-gimme
Put me put me put me put me-put me
#2
In the saddle I'll ride you'll see

#1
There's new work in the day room
I can't lounge on-line
Don't you laugh
I'd sell a giraffe and I'd give you half
#2
Just to occupy my mind

G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD
I'll be driven my eyes always moving
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
I'll be riveted to the task yea
G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD
No smiling! That’s important
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
I will make my face a mask

B minorBm G+G A: Barred E MajorE formation to get that high A augmentedA
And I’m thinking just in passing
What if this song does nothing?
What if this song does nothing?

#1
Working in the new NewOrleansWorld
I'm emptying slots working like a ghost
I move through huge rooms with no windows
#2
And no Gulf of Mexico

#1
Gimmegimmegimme gimme-gimme
Gimme an opportunity gimme-gimme
Put me put me put me put me-put me
#2
In the saddle please

G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD
I'll be driven my eyes always moving
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
I'll be riveted to the task yea
No smiling! that's so important
I will make my face a mask

B minorBm G+G A augmentedA
And I’m thinking just in passing
What if this song does nothing?
What if this song does nothing?
What if this song does nothing
What if this song does nothing

DmDm A augmentedA
Bring on the requisite strangeness
C# minorC#m B minorBm
It always has to get a little weird a little weird
DmDm A augmentedA
Yea you just bring on the requisite strangeness
C# minorC#m B minorBm
Bring it on then disappear disappear

E MajorE

E MajorE D MajorD
Go to be a man of the boom
E MajorE D MajorD
To Florida without the ocean
But
E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
When the door is just starting to open?
When Athabasca depends?
Don't you wanna see how it ends

A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA
I can hear you
A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA
But I can't stay here
F# minorF#m
You left me lost in the barrens
E MajorE
You left me born on the stairs

A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA
It's minus 11
A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA
Inside my kettle
F# minorF#m
I didn't come to get lost in the barrens
E MajorE
I didn't come to settle

E MajorE D MajorD
To be a man on the moon
To get my little slice of heaven
Yeah

E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
When the door is just starting to open?
And Athabasca depends
Doncha wanna see how it ends
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
The door is just starting to open.
Athabasca depends.
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
Yeah
Don't you wanna see how it ends?
I'm holding the door to the barrens
And Athabasca depends
Doncha wanna see how it ends?