Intro
F#m F#m A A
[Verse]
F#m A
Nights we hide between the walls
F#m A
voices leading on the ground.
D E
Arms reaching out,
Bm D F#m
hoping for the chance to start.
[Instrumental]
F#m F#sus4 x4
[Chorus]
D E
Hearts holding out
Bm D
waiting for the bells to.
[Verse]
F#m A
Bring my words to all of you
F#m A
and, and if they ever hear my voice, Hold me in your
D E
thoughts laid out
A D
twisted in defense,
Bm D F#m
Hoping for the chance to start
[Instrumental]
F#m F#sus4 x4
[Chorus]
D E
Hearts holding out
Bm D
waiting for the bells to
[Verse]
F#m A
Send my love to all my friends
F#m A
and if I never make it back
F#m A
To hold you in my arms again
F#m
not letting go this time
[Instrumental]
F#m F#sus4 x4
F#m F#sus4 x4
F#m
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Calexico - Splitter
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 85
E-mail:
Capo 2
[Intro]
Bm F#7 G D
Bm F#7 G D
A G D
[Verse]
D
Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass
D/C# Bm
You were walking ‘neath the moon while covering your tracks
G D
Working your fingers down to the skin and stone
[Chorus]
Bm F#7 G D
One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door
Bm F#7 G D A
Pushed by the wind, fed by the need for moving on,
G D
Moving on to nowhere
[Verse]
D
When division runs deep and down into the well
Bm
All the coins you dove after lost all their spell
G D
Covered in moss walking for silver and blood
[Chorus]
Bm F#7 G D
Out in the cafe, working in the grove
Bm F#7 G D
Guarding the port of the future you sold
A G D
Holding on, holding on to no one
A G D
Holding on, holding on to no one
[Chorus]
Bm F#7 G D
One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
Bm F#7 G D
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream
Bm F#7 G D
Caught up in the mortar, bricks and heavy load
Bm F#7 G D
Wait in the shadows down the living road
A G D
Moving on, moving on to no one
A G D
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)
Bm Bm Bm Bm Em
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
Bm Bm Bm Bm F#m7
|-------------------------------------------------2-|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
Chorus
Bm Em D etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
[Verse]
Bm Em
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
D G F#m7
between Havana and New Orleans
Bm Em
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
D G F#m7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
Em D F#m7 Bm
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Em D F#m7 Bm
Prayin' to the Lord , please shelter me
Em D F#m7 Bm
But the ground keeps shaking,
Em D F#m7 Bm
water is boiling on fire
Em D F#m7 Bm
Blood pulsing through their veins
Em D F#m7 Bm
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Verse]
Bm Em
Clocks stopping at twelve
D G F#m7
on the eve of a forgotten war
Bm Em
Luis drivin' a '59
D G F#m7
making it half way across the Gulf
Em D F#m7 Bm
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
Em D F#m7 Bm
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
Em D F#m7 Bm
Dreams of reaching dry land,
Em D F#m7 Bm
talking to the fortune teller
Em D F#m7 Bm
Prisoners pounding the jail
Em D F#m7 Bm
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Bridge]
Bm
Someone lost an eye,
Bm
someone lost the truth
Bm
Trying to save face,
Bm
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
Bm
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
Bm
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
[Intro Riff] x2
[Verse]
Bm Em
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
Bm Em
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
Em D F#m7 Bm
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
Em D F#m7 Bm
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
Em D F#m7 Bm
Running past the embassy gates,
Em D F#m7 Bm
and the Santería shrine
Em D F#m7 Bm
Blood pulsing thru their veins
Em D F#m7
like the waves they remember
F#m7 Bm
Crashing on the Malecón wall
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Calexico - Fortune Teller
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
Capo 4
Chords :
Cmaj : x3321x Alternate with the C
D6 : 320000
Cadd : 330010
Em7 : x02213
[Intro]
C Em Bm Em
C Em Bm
C Em Bm Em
C G D G
[Verse]
Em D6 G/D Gadd9 C/D
I was just standing turning around
Em D C
That's when they caught me heading down
Em D G/D Gadd9 C/D
Keep on going don't look away
C G D G Cadd9
That's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Chorus]
Cmaj Em D6 Em Esus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Cmaj Em D D
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Cmaj Em D6 Em Esus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
C G D G/D Gadd9 C/D
Yeah that's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Verse]
Em D6 G/D Gadd9 C/D
You're a pretty thought I suppose
Em D C
I'm just trying to hold up as I go
Em D G/D Gadd9 C/D
And one day I swear I'll spread my wings
C G D G
I'm on my way to finer things
[Chorus]
Cmaj Em D6 Em Em7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Cmaj Em D D
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Cmaj Em D6 Em Esus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
C G D G/D Gadd9 C/D
I'm on my way to finer things
[Verse]
Em D6 G/D Gadd9 C/D
It wasn't just me playing those games
Em D C
Still it's my own fault just the same
Em D G/D Gadd9 C/D
I opened up, I let you in
C G D G/D Gadd9 C/D
Now these crystal fields are wearing thin
[Chorus]
Cmaj Em D6 Em Em7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Cmaj Em D
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Cmaj Em D6 Em Esus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
C G/D D G/D Gadd9 C/D
I opened up, I let you in
[Verse]
Em D6 G/D Gadd9 C/D
I'm walking with the fortune teller
Em D C
I can see my own way home
Em D G/D Gadd9 C/D
But I don't like this dark road anymore
C G D G/D Gadd9 C/D
And I don't wanna be alone for long
[Chorus]
Cmaj Em D6 Em Em7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Cmaj Em D
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Cmaj Em D6 Em Esus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
C G/D D G/D Gadd9 C/D
Don't wanna be alone for long
C G/D D G/D Gadd9 C/D
I don't wanna be on this dark road alone
[Outro]
C G/D D G/D
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Calexico - Para
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
Bm : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003
Emadd9 : 022002
[Intro]
Bm
Bm Bmadd9 Em
[Verse]
Bm
I hold your wrist
C#
You bite your lip
Em F#7
The push becomes an embrace
Bm Bmadd9 Em
I touch your face
C#
You close your eyes
Em F#7
The embrace becomes a shove
Bm Bmadd9 Em
I walk away
C#
You follow too close
Em F#7
The shove takes hold, and there’s nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Bm Bm/C# Bm/D Bm/D#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Em F#7 G F#7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Bm Bm/C# Bm/D Bm/D#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Em F#7 G F#7 F#7 Bm
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below the waterline
[Verse]
Bm
I see you now
C#
Through a glass wall
Em F#7
All that is you stays with you, all that is me stays with me
Bm
But we see it all
C#
We feel it all
Em F#7
And there is no place we can't go
[Chorus]
Bm Bm/C# Bm/D Bm/D#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Em F#7 G F#7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Bm Bm/C# Bm/D Bm/D#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Em F#7 G F#7 F#7 Bm
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below
F#7 F#7 F#7 Bm
down, below the waterlinee
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Calexico - Maybe on Monday
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
Capo on 3rd
[Intro]
Em Esus2 Em Esus2 A
[Verse]
Em A Em A Em A Em A
Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, wrote you a love song
Em A Em A
Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
Em A Em A
And the notes rang down the road
[Chorus]
C G D Em
I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose
C G D Em Em A Em A
Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love
Em A Em A
Em A Em A Em A Em A
Went out walking into the storm, into the storm
Em A Em A Em A Em A
Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside
C G D Em
I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote
C G D Em
Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to..
..Say a little goodbye
Em A
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Em A
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Em A
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Em A
(To your love)
*GUITAR SOLO*
Em A x4
Em Em/D Em/C Em/B
Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down
Am G B7
I watched as the world slipped away
Em Em/D Em/C Em/B
Carved into the bark a final love song
Am G B7
Then I carried the words to the fire
C G D Em
Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low
C G D Em
Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning..
..Say a little goodbye
Em A
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Em A
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Em A
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Em A
(To your love)
Em A Em B Em
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-B
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
Em B
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
Em B
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
Em B
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
Em B
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
Em B
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
Am Em B
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
Am Em B
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest
Am Em B B7
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-B-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 2
Em B
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs
Em B
And when he comes back home he welds into the night
Em B
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck
Em B
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
Em Em/C#
If everything stays exactly the same
Em/C B
Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
Em B
Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
Am Em B
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains
Am Em B
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
Am Em B B7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-B-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 3
Em B
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town
Em B
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
Em B
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo
Em B
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
Em Em/C#
If everything stays exactly the same
Em/C B
Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
Em B
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
Am Em B
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
Am Em B
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
Am Em B
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
Am Em B
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
Am Em B
Codices lost to a language that's been broken
Am Em B B7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-B-Am-E (like Intro)
Spanish part
Em B Em B
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
Bm6 : 022020
Bm7 : 022030
Bm : xx200x
Ab : x4312x
Bsus4(#5) : xx200x
[Intro]
F#m Bm F#m Bm F#m Bm
F#m ? C#7
F#m
[Verse]
F#m Bm F#m Bm F#m
There's a letter sh e keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
Bm F#m ? C#7 F#m
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it's time to go
F#m Bm F#m Bm F#m
She's heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
Bm F#m Ab C#7 F#m
She's walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone
[Chorus]
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D
Is it better?
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D
Is it better and better?
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D Bsus4(#5) Ab C#
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?
[Verse]
F#m Bm F#m Bm F#m
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
F#m Bm F#m Bm F#m
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road
Bm F#m ? C#7 F#m
She's in Kansas and Alabam', Idaho and the Carolines
F#m Bm F#m Bm F#m
Know I've seen her before can't you recognize those hands
[Chorus]
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D
Is it better?
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D
Is it better and better?
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D Bsus4(#5) Ab C#
Is it better than staying back home?
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D
Is it better?
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D
Is it better and better?
Bm7 Bm6 Bm D C#dim D Bsus4(#5) Ab C#
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]
D
[Verse]
D Em
In the afternoon of orange blossom days
G D (D/F#)
Hummingbirds rest above where we lay
Bm D G D (D/F#)
You say it's ok, no need to fret
Bm D G D/F# Em
The weight of it all, will ease as we find
G D/F# Em D
The balance in each step we make
[Verse]
D Em
Swinging back'n forth, in a Palo Verde tree
G D (D/F#)
The wind in the needles, hushes you asleep
Bm D G D (D/F#)
And even with the strain, your heart remains
Bm D
And don't doubt why, darlin'
G D/F# Em
In time you will find
G D/F# Em
We're alright we were born
G D/F# Em D
Like the branch to bend and not to break
[Break]
D Em
G D (D/F#)
Bm D G D (D/F#)
Reconcile and resurrect
Bm D
Tombstone rose
G D/F# Em
Growing up and over the gates
G D/F# Em
To where our children play
G D/F# Em D
The future wraps round like vines, inside these arms
[Break]
Bm D
G D (D/F#)
Bm D
G D/F# Em
Darlin' will you say
G D/F# Em
In our final embrace
G D/F# Em
Before returning 'neath the clay
G D/F# Em D
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]
Dm F Am C
[Verse]
Dm F Am C
On the longest day
Dm F Am C
The vanishing mind
[Chorus]
Gm A#
Knows not when the day ends
Dm F Am
Who could care for you
C Dm F Am C
Who could understand
[Verse]
Dm F Am C
In the room sealed shut
Dm F Am C
You're not what you were
Gm Dm
So much sweeter now
A#
That there's nothing left to
C
Remember you
[Bridge]
F C
It's what brought you here
Dm Am
It's what keeps you here
F C
Who could care for you
Dm A
Who could understand
A# F A Dm G
Know not when the day ends or begins anymore
Dm F Am C Dm F Am C
In the hallway and waiting again
Dm F Am C
Here we are, here we sit
Dm F Am C
The light turning grey
Gm Dm
Your smile brings me back
A#
To the longest day
C
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