Intro
Cm Cm D# D#
[Verse]
Cm D#
Nights we hide between the walls
Cm D#
voices leading on the ground.
G# A#
Arms reaching out,
Fm G# Cm
hoping for the chance to start.
[Instrumental]
Cm Csus4 x4
[Chorus]
G# A#
Hearts holding out
Fm G#
waiting for the bells to.
[Verse]
Cm D#
Bring my words to all of you
Cm D#
and, and if they ever hear my voice, Hold me in your
G# A#
thoughts laid out
D# G#
twisted in defense,
Fm G# Cm
Hoping for the chance to start
[Instrumental]
Cm Csus4 x4
[Chorus]
G# A#
Hearts holding out
Fm G#
waiting for the bells to
[Verse]
Cm D#
Send my love to all my friends
Cm D#
and if I never make it back
Cm D#
To hold you in my arms again
Cm
not letting go this time
[Instrumental]
Cm Csus4 x4
Cm Csus4 x4
Cm
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Calexico - Splitter
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 85
E-mail:
Capo 2
[Intro]
Fm C7 C# G#
Fm C7 C# G#
D# C# G#
[Verse]
G#
Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass
G#/G Fm
You were walking ‘neath the moon while covering your tracks
C# G#
Working your fingers down to the skin and stone
[Chorus]
Fm C7 C# G#
One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door
Fm C7 C# G# D#
Pushed by the wind, fed by the need for moving on,
C# G#
Moving on to nowhere
[Verse]
G#
When division runs deep and down into the well
Fm
All the coins you dove after lost all their spell
C# G#
Covered in moss walking for silver and blood
[Chorus]
Fm C7 C# G#
Out in the cafe, working in the grove
Fm C7 C# G#
Guarding the port of the future you sold
D# C# G#
Holding on, holding on to no one
D# C# G#
Holding on, holding on to no one
[Chorus]
Fm C7 C# G#
One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
Fm C7 C# G#
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream
Fm C7 C# G#
Caught up in the mortar, bricks and heavy load
Fm C7 C# G#
Wait in the shadows down the living road
D# C# G#
Moving on, moving on to no one
D# C# G#
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)
Fm Fm Fm Fm A#m
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
Fm Fm Fm Fm Cm7
|-------------------------------------------------2-|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
Chorus
Fm A#m G# etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
[Verse]
Fm A#m
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
G# C# Cm7
between Havana and New Orleans
Fm A#m
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
G# C# Cm7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Running to the rock, running to the sea
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Prayin' to the Lord , please shelter me
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
But the ground keeps shaking,
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
water is boiling on fire
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Blood pulsing through their veins
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Verse]
Fm A#m
Clocks stopping at twelve
G# C# Cm7
on the eve of a forgotten war
Fm A#m
Luis drivin' a '59
G# C# Cm7
making it half way across the Gulf
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Dreams of reaching dry land,
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
talking to the fortune teller
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Prisoners pounding the jail
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Bridge]
Fm
Someone lost an eye,
Fm
someone lost the truth
Fm
Trying to save face,
Fm
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
Fm
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
Fm
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
[Intro Riff] x2
[Verse]
Fm A#m
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
Fm A#m
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Running past the embassy gates,
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
and the Santería shrine
A#m G# Cm7 Fm
Blood pulsing thru their veins
A#m G# Cm7
like the waves they remember
Cm7 Fm
Crashing on the Malecón wall
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Calexico - Fortune Teller
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
Capo 4
Chords :
F#maj : x3321x Alternate with the F#
G#6 : 320000
Cadd : 330010
A#m7 : x02213
[Intro]
F# A#m Fm A#m
F# A#m Fm
F# A#m Fm A#m
F# C# G# C#
[Verse]
A#m G#6 C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
I was just standing turning around
A#m G# F#
That's when they caught me heading down
A#m G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
Keep on going don't look away
F# C# G# C# Cadd9
That's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Chorus]
F#maj A#m G#6 A#m A#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F#maj A#m G# G#
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F#maj A#m G#6 A#m A#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F# C# G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
Yeah that's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Verse]
A#m G#6 C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
You're a pretty thought I suppose
A#m G# F#
I'm just trying to hold up as I go
A#m G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
And one day I swear I'll spread my wings
F# C# G# C#
I'm on my way to finer things
[Chorus]
F#maj A#m G#6 A#m A#m7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F#maj A#m G# G#
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F#maj A#m G#6 A#m A#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F# C# G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
I'm on my way to finer things
[Verse]
A#m G#6 C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
It wasn't just me playing those games
A#m G# F#
Still it's my own fault just the same
A#m G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
I opened up, I let you in
F# C# G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
Now these crystal fields are wearing thin
[Chorus]
F#maj A#m G#6 A#m A#m7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F#maj A#m G#
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F#maj A#m G#6 A#m A#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F# C#/G# G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
I opened up, I let you in
[Verse]
A#m G#6 C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
I'm walking with the fortune teller
A#m G# F#
I can see my own way home
A#m G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
But I don't like this dark road anymore
F# C# G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
And I don't wanna be alone for long
[Chorus]
F#maj A#m G#6 A#m A#m7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F#maj A#m G#
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F#maj A#m G#6 A#m A#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
F# C#/G# G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
Don't wanna be alone for long
F# C#/G# G# C#/G# C#add9 C/G#
I don't wanna be on this dark road alone
[Outro]
F# C#/G# G# C#/G#
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Calexico - Para
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
Fm : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003
Emadd9 : 022002
[Intro]
Fm
Fm Fmadd9 Em
[Verse]
Fm
I hold your wrist
G
You bite your lip
A#m C7
The push becomes an embrace
Fm Fmadd9 Em
I touch your face
G
You close your eyes
A#m C7
The embrace becomes a shove
Fm Fmadd9 Em
I walk away
G
You follow too close
A#m C7
The shove takes hold, and there’s nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Fm Fm/G Fm/G# Fm/A
Take it down, Take it all the way
A#m C7 C# C7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Fm Fm/G Fm/G# Fm/A
Take it down, Take it all the way
A#m C7 C# C7 C7 Fm
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below the waterline
[Verse]
Fm
I see you now
G
Through a glass wall
A#m C7
All that is you stays with you, all that is me stays with me
Fm
But we see it all
G
We feel it all
A#m C7
And there is no place we can't go
[Chorus]
Fm Fm/G Fm/G# Fm/A
Take it down, Take it all the way
A#m C7 C# C7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Fm Fm/G Fm/G# Fm/A
Take it down, Take it all the way
A#m C7 C# C7 C7 Fm
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below
C7 C7 C7 Fm
down, below the waterlinee
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Calexico - Maybe on Monday
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
Capo on 3rd
[Intro]
A#m A#sus2 A#m A#sus2 D#
[Verse]
A#m D# A#m D# A#m D# A#m D#
Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, wrote you a love song
A#m D# A#m D#
Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
A#m D# A#m D#
And the notes rang down the road
[Chorus]
F# C# G# A#m
I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose
F# C# G# A#m A#m D# A#m D#
Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love
A#m D# A#m D#
A#m D# A#m D# A#m D# A#m D#
Went out walking into the storm, into the storm
A#m D# A#m D# A#m D# A#m D#
Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside
F# C# G# A#m
I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote
F# C# G# A#m
Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to..
..Say a little goodbye
A#m D#
(Say goodbye)
To your love
A#m D#
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
A#m D#
(Say goodbye)
To your love
A#m D#
(To your love)
*GUITAR SOLO*
A#m D# x4
A#m A#m/G# A#m/F# A#m/F
Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down
D#m C# F7
I watched as the world slipped away
A#m A#m/G# A#m/F# A#m/F
Carved into the bark a final love song
D#m C# F7
Then I carried the words to the fire
F# C# G# A#m
Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low
F# C# G# A#m
Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning..
..Say a little goodbye
A#m D#
(Say goodbye)
To your love
A#m D#
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
A#m D#
(Say goodbye)
To your love
A#m D#
(To your love)
A#m D# A#m F A#m
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
A#m F
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
A#m F
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
A#m F
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
A#m F
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
A#m F
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
D#m A#m F
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
D#m A#m F
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest
D#m A#m F F7
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-F-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 2
A#m F
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs
A#m F
And when he comes back home he welds into the night
A#m F
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck
A#m F
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
A#m A#m/G
If everything stays exactly the same
A#m/F# F
Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
A#m F
Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
D#m A#m F
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains
D#m A#m F
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
D#m A#m F F7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-F-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 3
A#m F
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town
A#m F
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
A#m F
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo
A#m F
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
A#m A#m/G
If everything stays exactly the same
A#m/F# F
Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
A#m F
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
D#m A#m F
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
D#m A#m F
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
D#m A#m F
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
D#m A#m F
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
D#m A#m F
Codices lost to a language that's been broken
D#m A#m F F7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-F-Am-E (like Intro)
Spanish part
A#m F A#m 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
Fm6 : 022020
Fm7 : 022030
Fm : xx200x
D : x4312x
Bsus4(#5) : xx200x
[Intro]
Cm Fm Cm Fm Cm Fm
Cm ? G7
Cm
[Verse]
Cm Fm Cm Fm Cm
There's a letter sh e keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
Fm Cm ? G7 Cm
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it's time to go
Cm Fm Cm Fm Cm
She's heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
Fm Cm D G7 Cm
She's walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone
[Chorus]
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G#
Is it better?
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G#
Is it better and better?
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G# Bsus4(#5) D G
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?
[Verse]
Cm Fm Cm Fm Cm
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Cm Fm Cm Fm Cm
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road
Fm Cm ? G7 Cm
She's in Kansas and Alabam', Idaho and the Carolines
Cm Fm Cm Fm Cm
Know I've seen her before can't you recognize those hands
[Chorus]
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G#
Is it better?
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G#
Is it better and better?
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G# Bsus4(#5) D G
Is it better than staying back home?
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G#
Is it better?
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G#
Is it better and better?
Fm7 Fm6 Fm G# C#dim G# Bsus4(#5) D 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]
G#
[Verse]
G# A#m
In the afternoon of orange blossom days
C# G# (D/F#)
Hummingbirds rest above where we lay
Fm G# C# G# (D/F#)
You say it's ok, no need to fret
Fm G# C# G#/C A#m
The weight of it all, will ease as we find
C# G#/C A#m G#
The balance in each step we make
[Verse]
G# A#m
Swinging back'n forth, in a Palo Verde tree
C# G# (D/F#)
The wind in the needles, hushes you asleep
Fm G# C# G# (D/F#)
And even with the strain, your heart remains
Fm G#
And don't doubt why, darlin'
C# G#/C A#m
In time you will find
C# G#/C A#m
We're alright we were born
C# G#/C A#m G#
Like the branch to bend and not to break
[Break]
G# A#m
C# G# (D/F#)
Fm G# C# G# (D/F#)
Reconcile and resurrect
Fm G#
Tombstone rose
C# G#/C A#m
Growing up and over the gates
C# G#/C A#m
To where our children play
C# G#/C A#m G#
The future wraps round like vines, inside these arms
[Break]
Fm G#
C# G# (D/F#)
Fm G#
C# G#/C A#m
Darlin' will you say
C# G#/C A#m
In our final embrace
C# G#/C A#m
Before returning 'neath the clay
C# G#/C A#m G#
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]
G#m B D#m F#
[Verse]
G#m B D#m F#
On the longest day
G#m B D#m F#
The vanishing mind
[Chorus]
C#m E
Knows not when the day ends
G#m B D#m
Who could care for you
F# G#m B D#m F#
Who could understand
[Verse]
G#m B D#m F#
In the room sealed shut
G#m B D#m F#
You're not what you were
C#m G#m
So much sweeter now
E
That there's nothing left to
F#
Remember you
[Bridge]
B F#
It's what brought you here
G#m D#m
It's what keeps you here
B F#
Who could care for you
G#m D#
Who could understand
E B D# G#m C#
Know not when the day ends or begins anymore
G#m B D#m F# G#m B D#m F#
In the hallway and waiting again
G#m B D#m F#
Here we are, here we sit
G#m B D#m F#
The light turning grey
C#m G#m
Your smile brings me back
E
To the longest day
F#
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