Intro
C#m C#m E E
[Verse]
C#m E
Nights we hide between the walls
C#m E
voices leading on the ground.
A B
Arms reaching out,
F#m A C#m
hoping for the chance to start.
[Instrumental]
C#m C#sus4 x4
[Chorus]
A B
Hearts holding out
F#m A
waiting for the bells to.
[Verse]
C#m E
Bring my words to all of you
C#m E
and, and if they ever hear my voice, Hold me in your
A B
thoughts laid out
E A
twisted in defense,
F#m A C#m
Hoping for the chance to start
[Instrumental]
C#m C#sus4 x4
[Chorus]
A B
Hearts holding out
F#m A
waiting for the bells to
[Verse]
C#m E
Send my love to all my friends
C#m E
and if I never make it back
C#m E
To hold you in my arms again
C#m
not letting go this time
[Instrumental]
C#m C#sus4 x4
C#m C#sus4 x4
C#m
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Calexico - Splitter
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 85
E-mail:
Capo 2
[Intro]
F#m C#7 D A
F#m C#7 D A
E D A
[Verse]
A
Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass
A/G# F#m
You were walking ‘neath the moon while covering your tracks
D A
Working your fingers down to the skin and stone
[Chorus]
F#m C#7 D A
One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door
F#m C#7 D A E
Pushed by the wind, fed by the need for moving on,
D A
Moving on to nowhere
[Verse]
A
When division runs deep and down into the well
F#m
All the coins you dove after lost all their spell
D A
Covered in moss walking for silver and blood
[Chorus]
F#m C#7 D A
Out in the cafe, working in the grove
F#m C#7 D A
Guarding the port of the future you sold
E D A
Holding on, holding on to no one
E D A
Holding on, holding on to no one
[Chorus]
F#m C#7 D A
One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
F#m C#7 D A
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream
F#m C#7 D A
Caught up in the mortar, bricks and heavy load
F#m C#7 D A
Wait in the shadows down the living road
E D A
Moving on, moving on to no one
E D A
Holding on, holding on to no one
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Calexico - Sinner in the Sea
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
E-mail:
[Intro]
Play twice (first palm muted)
F#m F#m F#m F#m Bm
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
F#m F#m F#m F#m C#m7
|-------------------------------------------------2-|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
Chorus
F#m Bm A etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
[Verse]
F#m Bm
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
A D C#m7
between Havana and New Orleans
F#m Bm
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
A D C#m7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Prayin' to the Lord , please shelter me
Bm A C#m7 F#m
But the ground keeps shaking,
Bm A C#m7 F#m
water is boiling on fire
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Blood pulsing through their veins
Bm A C#m7 F#m
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Verse]
F#m Bm
Clocks stopping at twelve
A D C#m7
on the eve of a forgotten war
F#m Bm
Luis drivin' a '59
A D C#m7
making it half way across the Gulf
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
Bm A C#m7 F#m
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Dreams of reaching dry land,
Bm A C#m7 F#m
talking to the fortune teller
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Prisoners pounding the jail
Bm A C#m7 F#m
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Bridge]
F#m
Someone lost an eye,
F#m
someone lost the truth
F#m
Trying to save face,
F#m
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
F#m
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
F#m
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
[Intro Riff] x2
[Verse]
F#m Bm
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
F#m Bm
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
Bm A C#m7 F#m
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Running past the embassy gates,
Bm A C#m7 F#m
and the Santería shrine
Bm A C#m7 F#m
Blood pulsing thru their veins
Bm A C#m7
like the waves they remember
C#m7 F#m
Crashing on the Malecón wall
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Calexico - Fortune Teller
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
Capo 4
Chords :
Gmaj : x3321x Alternate with the G
A6 : 320000
Cadd : 330010
Bm7 : x02213
[Intro]
G Bm F#m Bm
G Bm F#m
G Bm F#m Bm
G D A D
[Verse]
Bm A6 D/A Dadd9 C/A
I was just standing turning around
Bm A G
That's when they caught me heading down
Bm A D/A Dadd9 C/A
Keep on going don't look away
G D A D Cadd9
That's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Chorus]
Gmaj Bm A6 Bm Bsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Gmaj Bm A A
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Gmaj Bm A6 Bm Bsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
G D A D/A Dadd9 C/A
Yeah that's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Verse]
Bm A6 D/A Dadd9 C/A
You're a pretty thought I suppose
Bm A G
I'm just trying to hold up as I go
Bm A D/A Dadd9 C/A
And one day I swear I'll spread my wings
G D A D
I'm on my way to finer things
[Chorus]
Gmaj Bm A6 Bm Bm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Gmaj Bm A A
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Gmaj Bm A6 Bm Bsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
G D A D/A Dadd9 C/A
I'm on my way to finer things
[Verse]
Bm A6 D/A Dadd9 C/A
It wasn't just me playing those games
Bm A G
Still it's my own fault just the same
Bm A D/A Dadd9 C/A
I opened up, I let you in
G D A D/A Dadd9 C/A
Now these crystal fields are wearing thin
[Chorus]
Gmaj Bm A6 Bm Bm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Gmaj Bm A
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Gmaj Bm A6 Bm Bsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
G D/A A D/A Dadd9 C/A
I opened up, I let you in
[Verse]
Bm A6 D/A Dadd9 C/A
I'm walking with the fortune teller
Bm A G
I can see my own way home
Bm A D/A Dadd9 C/A
But I don't like this dark road anymore
G D A D/A Dadd9 C/A
And I don't wanna be alone for long
[Chorus]
Gmaj Bm A6 Bm Bm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Gmaj Bm A
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Gmaj Bm A6 Bm Bsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
G D/A A D/A Dadd9 C/A
Don't wanna be alone for long
G D/A A D/A Dadd9 C/A
I don't wanna be on this dark road alone
[Outro]
G D/A A D/A
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Calexico - Para
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
F#m : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003
Emadd9 : 022002
[Intro]
F#m
F#m F#madd9 Em
[Verse]
F#m
I hold your wrist
G#
You bite your lip
Bm C#7
The push becomes an embrace
F#m F#madd9 Em
I touch your face
G#
You close your eyes
Bm C#7
The embrace becomes a shove
F#m F#madd9 Em
I walk away
G#
You follow too close
Bm C#7
The shove takes hold, and there’s nowhere to go
[Chorus]
F#m F#m/G# F#m/A F#m/A#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Bm C#7 D C#7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
F#m F#m/G# F#m/A F#m/A#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Bm C#7 D C#7 C#7 F#m
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below the waterline
[Verse]
F#m
I see you now
G#
Through a glass wall
Bm C#7
All that is you stays with you, all that is me stays with me
F#m
But we see it all
G#
We feel it all
Bm C#7
And there is no place we can't go
[Chorus]
F#m F#m/G# F#m/A F#m/A#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Bm C#7 D C#7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
F#m F#m/G# F#m/A F#m/A#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Bm C#7 D C#7 C#7 F#m
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below
C#7 C#7 C#7 F#m
down, below the waterlinee
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Calexico - Maybe on Monday
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
Capo on 3rd
[Intro]
Bm Bsus2 Bm Bsus2 E
[Verse]
Bm E Bm E Bm E Bm E
Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, wrote you a love song
Bm E Bm E
Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
Bm E Bm E
And the notes rang down the road
[Chorus]
G D A Bm
I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose
G D A Bm Bm E Bm E
Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love
Bm E Bm E
Bm E Bm E Bm E Bm E
Went out walking into the storm, into the storm
Bm E Bm E Bm E Bm E
Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside
G D A Bm
I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote
G D A Bm
Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to..
..Say a little goodbye
Bm E
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Bm E
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Bm E
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Bm E
(To your love)
*GUITAR SOLO*
Bm E x4
Bm Bm/A Bm/G Bm/F#
Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down
Em D F#7
I watched as the world slipped away
Bm Bm/A Bm/G Bm/F#
Carved into the bark a final love song
Em D F#7
Then I carried the words to the fire
G D A Bm
Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low
G D A Bm
Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning..
..Say a little goodbye
Bm E
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Bm E
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Bm E
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Bm E
(To your love)
Bm E Bm F# Bm
Ill carry this song with me everyday til I lie down by your side
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Calexico - Puerto
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
E-mail:
Capo 5th Fret
Intro: Am-F#
Play like this:
E-|------0---1--0--|-------0---1--0-|-------0----1-0---|-------0-----------|
B-|----1--3--------|---------3------|-----1---3--------|----------3--1--0--|
G-|--2-------------|-----1----------|---2--------------|-----1-------------|
D-|----------------|---2------------|------------------|--2----------------|
A-|-0--------------|----------------|-0----------------|-------------------|
E-|----------------|-0--------------|------------------|-0-----------------|
Verse 1
Bm F#
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
Bm F#
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
Bm F#
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
Bm F#
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
Bm F#
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
Em Bm F#
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
Em Bm F#
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest
Em Bm F# F#7
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-F#-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 2
Bm F#
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs
Bm F#
And when he comes back home he welds into the night
Bm F#
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck
Bm F#
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
Bm Bm/G#
If everything stays exactly the same
Bm/G F#
Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
Bm F#
Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
Em Bm F#
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains
Em Bm F#
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
Em Bm F# F#7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-F#-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 3
Bm F#
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town
Bm F#
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
Bm F#
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo
Bm F#
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
Bm Bm/G#
If everything stays exactly the same
Bm/G F#
Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
Bm F#
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
Em Bm F#
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
Em Bm F#
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
Em Bm F#
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
Em Bm F#
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
Em Bm F#
Codices lost to a language that's been broken
Em Bm F# F#7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-F#-Am-E (like Intro)
Spanish part
Bm F# Bm F#
Ninguna entrada , queda en el puerto
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Calexico - Better and Better
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
Capo 5
F#m6 : 022020
F#m7 : 022030
F#m : xx200x
Eb : x4312x
Bsus4(#5) : xx200x
[Intro]
C#m F#m C#m F#m C#m F#m
C#m ? G#7
C#m
[Verse]
C#m F#m C#m F#m C#m
There's a letter sh e keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
F#m C#m ? G#7 C#m
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it's time to go
C#m F#m C#m F#m C#m
She's heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
F#m C#m Eb G#7 C#m
She's walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone
[Chorus]
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A
Is it better?
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A
Is it better and better?
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A Bsus4(#5) Eb G#
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?
[Verse]
C#m F#m C#m F#m C#m
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
C#m F#m C#m F#m C#m
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road
F#m C#m ? G#7 C#m
She's in Kansas and Alabam', Idaho and the Carolines
C#m F#m C#m F#m C#m
Know I've seen her before can't you recognize those hands
[Chorus]
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A
Is it better?
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A
Is it better and better?
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A Bsus4(#5) Eb G#
Is it better than staying back home?
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A
Is it better?
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A
Is it better and better?
F#m7 F#m6 F#m A C#dim A Bsus4(#5) Eb G#
Is it better with nowhere else to go?
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Calexico - No Te Vayas
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
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Calexico - Hush
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
[Intro]
A
[Verse]
A Bm
In the afternoon of orange blossom days
D A (D/F#)
Hummingbirds rest above where we lay
F#m A D A (D/F#)
You say it's ok, no need to fret
F#m A D A/C# Bm
The weight of it all, will ease as we find
D A/C# Bm A
The balance in each step we make
[Verse]
A Bm
Swinging back'n forth, in a Palo Verde tree
D A (D/F#)
The wind in the needles, hushes you asleep
F#m A D A (D/F#)
And even with the strain, your heart remains
F#m A
And don't doubt why, darlin'
D A/C# Bm
In time you will find
D A/C# Bm
We're alright we were born
D A/C# Bm A
Like the branch to bend and not to break
[Break]
A Bm
D A (D/F#)
F#m A D A (D/F#)
Reconcile and resurrect
F#m A
Tombstone rose
D A/C# Bm
Growing up and over the gates
D A/C# Bm
To where our children play
D A/C# Bm A
The future wraps round like vines, inside these arms
[Break]
F#m A
D A (D/F#)
F#m A
D A/C# Bm
Darlin' will you say
D A/C# Bm
In our final embrace
D A/C# Bm
Before returning 'neath the clay
D A/C# Bm A
After all that your heart still remains ...
Use variations of the main chords used.
G: 320030 / 320000
Am: x02210 / x02200
C: 032010 / 032030
G/B: 020010
D/F#: 200232
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Calexico - The Vanishing Mind
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
[Intro]
Am C Em G
[Verse]
Am C Em G
On the longest day
Am C Em G
The vanishing mind
[Chorus]
Dm F
Knows not when the day ends
Am C Em
Who could care for you
G Am C Em G
Who could understand
[Verse]
Am C Em G
In the room sealed shut
Am C Em G
You're not what you were
Dm Am
So much sweeter now
F
That there's nothing left to
G
Remember you
[Bridge]
C G
It's what brought you here
Am Em
It's what keeps you here
C G
Who could care for you
Am E
Who could understand
F C E Am D
Know not when the day ends or begins anymore
Am C Em G Am C Em G
In the hallway and waiting again
Am C Em G
Here we are, here we sit
Am C Em G
The light turning grey
Dm Am
Your smile brings me back
F
To the longest day
G
The vanishing mind
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Calexico - Dead Moon
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
The winter is cold
But not as cold as a hand
Covering your heart
The moon is dead
Like the light in your eyes
Fading and gone
Cast out over the hills
Wandering forest and field
Still no resolve when sorrow calls
And silently takes you from here
April showers
Held up inside
For weeks on end
The moon is empty
Memories have all
Passed you on by
Medicine is slowly running out
Your breath is shallow and frail
The doctor arrives
Closes your eyes
Places two pennies in their place
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Calexico - Mi Maquina
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
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Calexico - Ghost of a River
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
Dig my hands into the dirt
Ghost of a riverbed
Find a timepiece from
The water commissioner
In a whole town washed up and dead
Climbing in a crawlspace
Climb to survive
Climbing into our vehicles
Through the tunnel to the other side
I remember when we'd stand
With our feet at the river's edge
Wondering where the current
Would take us if we leapt
I remember when we'd stand
With our feet at the water's edge
Wondering where the current
Would take us if we leapt
Now I can't stop thinking
About how she used to smile
Standing by that tree
Near the ghost of the river
And where we said our last goodbye
Our last goodbye
Our last goodbye