Intro
Fm Fm G# G#
[Verse]
Fm G#
Nights we hide between the walls
Fm G#
voices leading on the ground.
C# D#
Arms reaching out,
A#m C# Fm
hoping for the chance to start.
[Instrumental]
Fm Fsus4 x4
[Chorus]
C# D#
Hearts holding out
A#m C#
waiting for the bells to.
[Verse]
Fm G#
Bring my words to all of you
Fm G#
and, and if they ever hear my voice, Hold me in your
C# D#
thoughts laid out
G# C#
twisted in defense,
A#m C# Fm
Hoping for the chance to start
[Instrumental]
Fm Fsus4 x4
[Chorus]
C# D#
Hearts holding out
A#m C#
waiting for the bells to
[Verse]
Fm G#
Send my love to all my friends
Fm G#
and if I never make it back
Fm G#
To hold you in my arms again
Fm
not letting go this time
[Instrumental]
Fm Fsus4 x4
Fm Fsus4 x4
Fm
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Calexico - Splitter
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 85
E-mail:
Capo 2
[Intro]
A#m F7 F# C#
A#m F7 F# C#
G# F# C#
[Verse]
C#
Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass
C#/C A#m
You were walking ‘neath the moon while covering your tracks
F# C#
Working your fingers down to the skin and stone
[Chorus]
A#m F7 F# C#
One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door
A#m F7 F# C# G#
Pushed by the wind, fed by the need for moving on,
F# C#
Moving on to nowhere
[Verse]
C#
When division runs deep and down into the well
A#m
All the coins you dove after lost all their spell
F# C#
Covered in moss walking for silver and blood
[Chorus]
A#m F7 F# C#
Out in the cafe, working in the grove
A#m F7 F# C#
Guarding the port of the future you sold
G# F# C#
Holding on, holding on to no one
G# F# C#
Holding on, holding on to no one
[Chorus]
A#m F7 F# C#
One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
A#m F7 F# C#
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream
A#m F7 F# C#
Caught up in the mortar, bricks and heavy load
A#m F7 F# C#
Wait in the shadows down the living road
G# F# C#
Moving on, moving on to no one
G# F# C#
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)
A#m A#m A#m A#m D#m
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
A#m A#m A#m A#m Fm7
|-------------------------------------------------2-|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
Chorus
A#m D#m C# etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
[Verse]
A#m D#m
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
C# F# Fm7
between Havana and New Orleans
A#m D#m
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
C# F# Fm7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Running to the rock, running to the sea
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Prayin' to the Lord , please shelter me
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
But the ground keeps shaking,
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
water is boiling on fire
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Blood pulsing through their veins
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Verse]
A#m D#m
Clocks stopping at twelve
C# F# Fm7
on the eve of a forgotten war
A#m D#m
Luis drivin' a '59
C# F# Fm7
making it half way across the Gulf
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Dreams of reaching dry land,
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
talking to the fortune teller
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Prisoners pounding the jail
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Bridge]
A#m
Someone lost an eye,
A#m
someone lost the truth
A#m
Trying to save face,
A#m
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
A#m
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
A#m
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
[Intro Riff] x2
[Verse]
A#m D#m
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
A#m D#m
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Running past the embassy gates,
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
and the Santería shrine
D#m C# Fm7 A#m
Blood pulsing thru their veins
D#m C# Fm7
like the waves they remember
Fm7 A#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 :
Bmaj : x3321x Alternate with the B
C#6 : 320000
Cadd : 330010
D#m7 : x02213
[Intro]
B D#m A#m D#m
B D#m A#m
B D#m A#m D#m
B F# C# F#
[Verse]
D#m C#6 F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
I was just standing turning around
D#m C# B
That's when they caught me heading down
D#m C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
Keep on going don't look away
B F# C# F# Cadd9
That's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Chorus]
Bmaj D#m C#6 D#m D#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Bmaj D#m C# C#
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Bmaj D#m C#6 D#m D#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
B F# C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
Yeah that's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Verse]
D#m C#6 F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
You're a pretty thought I suppose
D#m C# B
I'm just trying to hold up as I go
D#m C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
And one day I swear I'll spread my wings
B F# C# F#
I'm on my way to finer things
[Chorus]
Bmaj D#m C#6 D#m D#m7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Bmaj D#m C# C#
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Bmaj D#m C#6 D#m D#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
B F# C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
I'm on my way to finer things
[Verse]
D#m C#6 F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
It wasn't just me playing those games
D#m C# B
Still it's my own fault just the same
D#m C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
I opened up, I let you in
B F# C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
Now these crystal fields are wearing thin
[Chorus]
Bmaj D#m C#6 D#m D#m7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Bmaj D#m C#
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Bmaj D#m C#6 D#m D#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
B F#/C# C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
I opened up, I let you in
[Verse]
D#m C#6 F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
I'm walking with the fortune teller
D#m C# B
I can see my own way home
D#m C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
But I don't like this dark road anymore
B F# C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
And I don't wanna be alone for long
[Chorus]
Bmaj D#m C#6 D#m D#m7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Bmaj D#m C#
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
Bmaj D#m C#6 D#m D#sus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
B F#/C# C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
Don't wanna be alone for long
B F#/C# C# F#/C# F#add9 C/C#
I don't wanna be on this dark road alone
[Outro]
B F#/C# C# F#/C#
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Calexico - Para
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
A#m : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003
Emadd9 : 022002
[Intro]
A#m
A#m A#madd9 Em
[Verse]
A#m
I hold your wrist
C
You bite your lip
D#m F7
The push becomes an embrace
A#m A#madd9 Em
I touch your face
C
You close your eyes
D#m F7
The embrace becomes a shove
A#m A#madd9 Em
I walk away
C
You follow too close
D#m F7
The shove takes hold, and there’s nowhere to go
[Chorus]
A#m A#m/C A#m/C# A#m/D
Take it down, Take it all the way
D#m F7 F# F7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
A#m A#m/C A#m/C# A#m/D
Take it down, Take it all the way
D#m F7 F# F7 F7 A#m
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below the waterline
[Verse]
A#m
I see you now
C
Through a glass wall
D#m F7
All that is you stays with you, all that is me stays with me
A#m
But we see it all
C
We feel it all
D#m F7
And there is no place we can't go
[Chorus]
A#m A#m/C A#m/C# A#m/D
Take it down, Take it all the way
D#m F7 F# F7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
A#m A#m/C A#m/C# A#m/D
Take it down, Take it all the way
D#m F7 F# F7 F7 A#m
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below
F7 F7 F7 A#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]
D#m D#sus2 D#m D#sus2 G#
[Verse]
D#m G# D#m G# D#m G# D#m G#
Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, wrote you a love song
D#m G# D#m G#
Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
D#m G# D#m G#
And the notes rang down the road
[Chorus]
B F# C# D#m
I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose
B F# C# D#m D#m G# D#m G#
Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love
D#m G# D#m G#
D#m G# D#m G# D#m G# D#m G#
Went out walking into the storm, into the storm
D#m G# D#m G# D#m G# D#m G#
Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside
B F# C# D#m
I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote
B F# C# D#m
Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to..
..Say a little goodbye
D#m G#
(Say goodbye)
To your love
D#m G#
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
D#m G#
(Say goodbye)
To your love
D#m G#
(To your love)
*GUITAR SOLO*
D#m G# x4
D#m D#m/C# D#m/B D#m/A#
Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down
G#m F# A#7
I watched as the world slipped away
D#m D#m/C# D#m/B D#m/A#
Carved into the bark a final love song
G#m F# A#7
Then I carried the words to the fire
B F# C# D#m
Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low
B F# C# D#m
Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning..
..Say a little goodbye
D#m G#
(Say goodbye)
To your love
D#m G#
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
D#m G#
(Say goodbye)
To your love
D#m G#
(To your love)
D#m G# D#m A# D#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-A#
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
D#m A#
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
D#m A#
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
D#m A#
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
D#m A#
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
D#m A#
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
G#m D#m A#
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
G#m D#m A#
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest
G#m D#m A# A#7
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-A#-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 2
D#m A#
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs
D#m A#
And when he comes back home he welds into the night
D#m A#
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck
D#m A#
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
D#m D#m/C
If everything stays exactly the same
D#m/B A#
Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
D#m A#
Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
G#m D#m A#
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains
G#m D#m A#
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
G#m D#m A# A#7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-A#-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 3
D#m A#
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town
D#m A#
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
D#m A#
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo
D#m A#
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
D#m D#m/C
If everything stays exactly the same
D#m/B A#
Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
D#m A#
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
G#m D#m A#
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
G#m D#m A#
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
G#m D#m A#
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
G#m D#m A#
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
G#m D#m A#
Codices lost to a language that's been broken
G#m D#m A# A#7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-A#-Am-E (like Intro)
Spanish part
D#m A# D#m A#
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
A#m6 : 022020
A#m7 : 022030
A#m : xx200x
G : x4312x
Bsus4(#5) : xx200x
[Intro]
Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm A#m
Fm ? C7
Fm
[Verse]
Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm
There's a letter sh e keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
A#m Fm ? C7 Fm
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it's time to go
Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm
She's heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
A#m Fm G C7 Fm
She's walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone
[Chorus]
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C#
Is it better?
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C#
Is it better and better?
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C# Bsus4(#5) G C
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?
[Verse]
Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road
A#m Fm ? C7 Fm
She's in Kansas and Alabam', Idaho and the Carolines
Fm A#m Fm A#m Fm
Know I've seen her before can't you recognize those hands
[Chorus]
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C#
Is it better?
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C#
Is it better and better?
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C# Bsus4(#5) G C
Is it better than staying back home?
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C#
Is it better?
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C#
Is it better and better?
A#m7 A#m6 A#m C# C#dim C# Bsus4(#5) G 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]
C#
[Verse]
C# D#m
In the afternoon of orange blossom days
F# C# (D/F#)
Hummingbirds rest above where we lay
A#m C# F# C# (D/F#)
You say it's ok, no need to fret
A#m C# F# C#/F D#m
The weight of it all, will ease as we find
F# C#/F D#m C#
The balance in each step we make
[Verse]
C# D#m
Swinging back'n forth, in a Palo Verde tree
F# C# (D/F#)
The wind in the needles, hushes you asleep
A#m C# F# C# (D/F#)
And even with the strain, your heart remains
A#m C#
And don't doubt why, darlin'
F# C#/F D#m
In time you will find
F# C#/F D#m
We're alright we were born
F# C#/F D#m C#
Like the branch to bend and not to break
[Break]
C# D#m
F# C# (D/F#)
A#m C# F# C# (D/F#)
Reconcile and resurrect
A#m C#
Tombstone rose
F# C#/F D#m
Growing up and over the gates
F# C#/F D#m
To where our children play
F# C#/F D#m C#
The future wraps round like vines, inside these arms
[Break]
A#m C#
F# C# (D/F#)
A#m C#
F# C#/F D#m
Darlin' will you say
F# C#/F D#m
In our final embrace
F# C#/F D#m
Before returning 'neath the clay
F# C#/F D#m C#
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]
C#m E G#m B
[Verse]
C#m E G#m B
On the longest day
C#m E G#m B
The vanishing mind
[Chorus]
F#m A
Knows not when the day ends
C#m E G#m
Who could care for you
B C#m E G#m B
Who could understand
[Verse]
C#m E G#m B
In the room sealed shut
C#m E G#m B
You're not what you were
F#m C#m
So much sweeter now
A
That there's nothing left to
B
Remember you
[Bridge]
E B
It's what brought you here
C#m G#m
It's what keeps you here
E B
Who could care for you
C#m G#
Who could understand
A E G# C#m F#
Know not when the day ends or begins anymore
C#m E G#m B C#m E G#m B
In the hallway and waiting again
C#m E G#m B
Here we are, here we sit
C#m E G#m B
The light turning grey
F#m C#m
Your smile brings me back
A
To the longest day
B
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