Intro
Am Am C C
[Verse]
Am C
Nights we hide between the walls
Am C
voices leading on the ground.
F G
Arms reaching out,
Dm F Am
hoping for the chance to start.
[Instrumental]
Am Asus4 x4
[Chorus]
F G
Hearts holding out
Dm F
waiting for the bells to.
[Verse]
Am C
Bring my words to all of you
Am C
and, and if they ever hear my voice, Hold me in your
F G
thoughts laid out
C F
twisted in defense,
Dm F Am
Hoping for the chance to start
[Instrumental]
Am Asus4 x4
[Chorus]
F G
Hearts holding out
Dm F
waiting for the bells to
[Verse]
Am C
Send my love to all my friends
Am C
and if I never make it back
Am C
To hold you in my arms again
Am
not letting go this time
[Instrumental]
Am Asus4 x4
Am Asus4 x4
Am
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Calexico - Splitter
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 85
E-mail:
Capo 2
[Intro]
Dm A7 A# F
Dm A7 A# F
C A# F
[Verse]
F
Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass
F/E Dm
You were walking ‘neath the moon while covering your tracks
A# F
Working your fingers down to the skin and stone
[Chorus]
Dm A7 A# F
One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door
Dm A7 A# F C
Pushed by the wind, fed by the need for moving on,
A# F
Moving on to nowhere
[Verse]
F
When division runs deep and down into the well
Dm
All the coins you dove after lost all their spell
A# F
Covered in moss walking for silver and blood
[Chorus]
Dm A7 A# F
Out in the cafe, working in the grove
Dm A7 A# F
Guarding the port of the future you sold
C A# F
Holding on, holding on to no one
C A# F
Holding on, holding on to no one
[Chorus]
Dm A7 A# F
One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
Dm A7 A# F
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream
Dm A7 A# F
Caught up in the mortar, bricks and heavy load
Dm A7 A# F
Wait in the shadows down the living road
C A# F
Moving on, moving on to no one
C A# F
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)
Dm Dm Dm Dm Gm
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
Dm Dm Dm Dm Am7
|-------------------------------------------------2-|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
Chorus
Dm Gm F etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
[Verse]
Dm Gm
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
F A# Am7
between Havana and New Orleans
Dm Gm
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
F A# Am7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
Gm F Am7 Dm
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Gm F Am7 Dm
Prayin' to the Lord , please shelter me
Gm F Am7 Dm
But the ground keeps shaking,
Gm F Am7 Dm
water is boiling on fire
Gm F Am7 Dm
Blood pulsing through their veins
Gm F Am7 Dm
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Verse]
Dm Gm
Clocks stopping at twelve
F A# Am7
on the eve of a forgotten war
Dm Gm
Luis drivin' a '59
F A# Am7
making it half way across the Gulf
Gm F Am7 Dm
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
Gm F Am7 Dm
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
Gm F Am7 Dm
Dreams of reaching dry land,
Gm F Am7 Dm
talking to the fortune teller
Gm F Am7 Dm
Prisoners pounding the jail
Gm F Am7 Dm
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Bridge]
Dm
Someone lost an eye,
Dm
someone lost the truth
Dm
Trying to save face,
Dm
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
Dm
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
Dm
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
[Intro Riff] x2
[Verse]
Dm Gm
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
Dm Gm
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
Gm F Am7 Dm
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
Gm F Am7 Dm
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
Gm F Am7 Dm
Running past the embassy gates,
Gm F Am7 Dm
and the Santería shrine
Gm F Am7 Dm
Blood pulsing thru their veins
Gm F Am7
like the waves they remember
Am7 Dm
Crashing on the Malecón wall
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Calexico - Fortune Teller
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
Capo 4
Chords :
D#maj : x3321x Alternate with the D#
F6 : 320000
Cadd : 330010
Gm7 : x02213
[Intro]
D# Gm Dm Gm
D# Gm Dm
D# Gm Dm Gm
D# A# F A#
[Verse]
Gm F6 A#/F A#add9 C/F
I was just standing turning around
Gm F D#
That's when they caught me heading down
Gm F A#/F A#add9 C/F
Keep on going don't look away
D# A# F A# Cadd9
That's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Chorus]
D#maj Gm F6 Gm Gsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D#maj Gm F F
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D#maj Gm F6 Gm Gsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D# A# F A#/F A#add9 C/F
Yeah that's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Verse]
Gm F6 A#/F A#add9 C/F
You're a pretty thought I suppose
Gm F D#
I'm just trying to hold up as I go
Gm F A#/F A#add9 C/F
And one day I swear I'll spread my wings
D# A# F A#
I'm on my way to finer things
[Chorus]
D#maj Gm F6 Gm Gm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D#maj Gm F F
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D#maj Gm F6 Gm Gsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D# A# F A#/F A#add9 C/F
I'm on my way to finer things
[Verse]
Gm F6 A#/F A#add9 C/F
It wasn't just me playing those games
Gm F D#
Still it's my own fault just the same
Gm F A#/F A#add9 C/F
I opened up, I let you in
D# A# F A#/F A#add9 C/F
Now these crystal fields are wearing thin
[Chorus]
D#maj Gm F6 Gm Gm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D#maj Gm F
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D#maj Gm F6 Gm Gsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D# A#/F F A#/F A#add9 C/F
I opened up, I let you in
[Verse]
Gm F6 A#/F A#add9 C/F
I'm walking with the fortune teller
Gm F D#
I can see my own way home
Gm F A#/F A#add9 C/F
But I don't like this dark road anymore
D# A# F A#/F A#add9 C/F
And I don't wanna be alone for long
[Chorus]
D#maj Gm F6 Gm Gm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D#maj Gm F
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D#maj Gm F6 Gm Gsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
D# A#/F F A#/F A#add9 C/F
Don't wanna be alone for long
D# A#/F F A#/F A#add9 C/F
I don't wanna be on this dark road alone
[Outro]
D# A#/F F A#/F
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Calexico - Para
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
Dm : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003
Emadd9 : 022002
[Intro]
Dm
Dm Dmadd9 Em
[Verse]
Dm
I hold your wrist
E
You bite your lip
Gm A7
The push becomes an embrace
Dm Dmadd9 Em
I touch your face
E
You close your eyes
Gm A7
The embrace becomes a shove
Dm Dmadd9 Em
I walk away
E
You follow too close
Gm A7
The shove takes hold, and there’s nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Dm Dm/E Dm/F Dm/F#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Gm A7 A# A7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Dm Dm/E Dm/F Dm/F#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Gm A7 A# A7 A7 Dm
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below the waterline
[Verse]
Dm
I see you now
E
Through a glass wall
Gm A7
All that is you stays with you, all that is me stays with me
Dm
But we see it all
E
We feel it all
Gm A7
And there is no place we can't go
[Chorus]
Dm Dm/E Dm/F Dm/F#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Gm A7 A# A7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Dm Dm/E Dm/F Dm/F#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Gm A7 A# A7 A7 Dm
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below
A7 A7 A7 Dm
down, below the waterlinee
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Calexico - Maybe on Monday
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
Capo on 3rd
[Intro]
Gm Gsus2 Gm Gsus2 C
[Verse]
Gm C Gm C Gm C Gm C
Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, wrote you a love song
Gm C Gm C
Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
Gm C Gm C
And the notes rang down the road
[Chorus]
D# A# F Gm
I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose
D# A# F Gm Gm C Gm C
Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love
Gm C Gm C
Gm C Gm C Gm C Gm C
Went out walking into the storm, into the storm
Gm C Gm C Gm C Gm C
Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside
D# A# F Gm
I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote
D# A# F Gm
Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to..
..Say a little goodbye
Gm C
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Gm C
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Gm C
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Gm C
(To your love)
*GUITAR SOLO*
Gm C x4
Gm Gm/F Gm/D# Gm/D
Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down
Cm A# D7
I watched as the world slipped away
Gm Gm/F Gm/D# Gm/D
Carved into the bark a final love song
Cm A# D7
Then I carried the words to the fire
D# A# F Gm
Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low
D# A# F Gm
Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning..
..Say a little goodbye
Gm C
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Gm C
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Gm C
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Gm C
(To your love)
Gm C Gm D Gm
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-D
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
Gm D
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
Gm D
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
Gm D
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
Gm D
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
Gm D
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
Cm Gm D
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
Cm Gm D
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest
Cm Gm D D7
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-D-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 2
Gm D
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs
Gm D
And when he comes back home he welds into the night
Gm D
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck
Gm D
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
Gm Gm/E
If everything stays exactly the same
Gm/D# D
Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
Gm D
Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
Cm Gm D
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains
Cm Gm D
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
Cm Gm D D7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-D-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 3
Gm D
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town
Gm D
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
Gm D
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo
Gm D
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
Gm Gm/E
If everything stays exactly the same
Gm/D# D
Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
Gm D
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
Cm Gm D
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
Cm Gm D
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
Cm Gm D
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
Cm Gm D
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
Cm Gm D
Codices lost to a language that's been broken
Cm Gm D D7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-D-Am-E (like Intro)
Spanish part
Gm D Gm D
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
Dm6 : 022020
Dm7 : 022030
Dm : xx200x
Cb : x4312x
Bsus4(#5) : xx200x
[Intro]
Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm
Am ? E7
Am
[Verse]
Am Dm Am Dm Am
There's a letter sh e keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
Dm Am ? E7 Am
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it's time to go
Am Dm Am Dm Am
She's heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
Dm Am Cb E7 Am
She's walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone
[Chorus]
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F
Is it better?
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F
Is it better and better?
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F Bsus4(#5) Cb E
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?
[Verse]
Am Dm Am Dm Am
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Am Dm Am Dm Am
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road
Dm Am ? E7 Am
She's in Kansas and Alabam', Idaho and the Carolines
Am Dm Am Dm Am
Know I've seen her before can't you recognize those hands
[Chorus]
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F
Is it better?
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F
Is it better and better?
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F Bsus4(#5) Cb E
Is it better than staying back home?
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F
Is it better?
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F
Is it better and better?
Dm7 Dm6 Dm F C#dim F Bsus4(#5) Cb E
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]
F
[Verse]
F Gm
In the afternoon of orange blossom days
A# F (D/F#)
Hummingbirds rest above where we lay
Dm F A# F (D/F#)
You say it's ok, no need to fret
Dm F A# F/A Gm
The weight of it all, will ease as we find
A# F/A Gm F
The balance in each step we make
[Verse]
F Gm
Swinging back'n forth, in a Palo Verde tree
A# F (D/F#)
The wind in the needles, hushes you asleep
Dm F A# F (D/F#)
And even with the strain, your heart remains
Dm F
And don't doubt why, darlin'
A# F/A Gm
In time you will find
A# F/A Gm
We're alright we were born
A# F/A Gm F
Like the branch to bend and not to break
[Break]
F Gm
A# F (D/F#)
Dm F A# F (D/F#)
Reconcile and resurrect
Dm F
Tombstone rose
A# F/A Gm
Growing up and over the gates
A# F/A Gm
To where our children play
A# F/A Gm F
The future wraps round like vines, inside these arms
[Break]
Dm F
A# F (D/F#)
Dm F
A# F/A Gm
Darlin' will you say
A# F/A Gm
In our final embrace
A# F/A Gm
Before returning 'neath the clay
A# F/A Gm F
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]
Fm G# Cm D#
[Verse]
Fm G# Cm D#
On the longest day
Fm G# Cm D#
The vanishing mind
[Chorus]
A#m C#
Knows not when the day ends
Fm G# Cm
Who could care for you
D# Fm G# Cm D#
Who could understand
[Verse]
Fm G# Cm D#
In the room sealed shut
Fm G# Cm D#
You're not what you were
A#m Fm
So much sweeter now
C#
That there's nothing left to
D#
Remember you
[Bridge]
G# D#
It's what brought you here
Fm Cm
It's what keeps you here
G# D#
Who could care for you
Fm C
Who could understand
C# G# C Fm A#
Know not when the day ends or begins anymore
Fm G# Cm D# Fm G# Cm D#
In the hallway and waiting again
Fm G# Cm D#
Here we are, here we sit
Fm G# Cm D#
The light turning grey
A#m Fm
Your smile brings me back
C#
To the longest day
D#
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