Intro
Em Em G G
[Verse]
Em G
Nights we hide between the walls
Em G
voices leading on the ground.
C D
Arms reaching out,
Am C Em
hoping for the chance to start.
[Instrumental]
Em Esus4 x4
[Chorus]
C D
Hearts holding out
Am C
waiting for the bells to.
[Verse]
Em G
Bring my words to all of you
Em G
and, and if they ever hear my voice, Hold me in your
C D
thoughts laid out
G C
twisted in defense,
Am C Em
Hoping for the chance to start
[Instrumental]
Em Esus4 x4
[Chorus]
C D
Hearts holding out
Am C
waiting for the bells to
[Verse]
Em G
Send my love to all my friends
Em G
and if I never make it back
Em G
To hold you in my arms again
Em
not letting go this time
[Instrumental]
Em Esus4 x4
Em Esus4 x4
Em
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Calexico - Splitter
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 85
E-mail:
Capo 2
[Intro]
Am E7 F C
Am E7 F C
G F C
[Verse]
C
Through the gardens and fields ‘neath the tall green grass
C/B Am
You were walking ‘neath the moon while covering your tracks
F C
Working your fingers down to the skin and stone
[Chorus]
Am E7 F C
One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door
Am E7 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
Am
All the coins you dove after lost all their spell
F C
Covered in moss walking for silver and blood
[Chorus]
Am E7 F C
Out in the cafe, working in the grove
Am E7 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]
Am E7 F C
One eye in the mirror, the other on the screen
Am E7 F C
Sewn in the pockets and down into the dream
Am E7 F C
Caught up in the mortar, bricks and heavy load
Am E7 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)
Am Am Am Am Dm
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------1p0|
|------------------------------------------------0---|
|-----------------------------------------------2----|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2------------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3---------------|
Am Am Am Am Em7
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|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------2--|
|-----------------------------------------------4---|
|-------------2------2-0----------------2h3p2-------|
|-0--------3-------3-----3-0---------3--------------|
Chorus
Am Dm C etc...
|-------7-7-7---5---------------------
|-----8-------8---5-------------------
|---9---------------5-----------------
|-9-------------------7---------------
|-----------------------7-------------
|-------------------------5-5-5-7-5-3-
[Verse]
Am Dm
There's a piano playing on the ocean floor
C F Em7
between Havana and New Orleans
Am Dm
Drummin' a requiem for the dead
C F Em7
and the souls hanging on every poet's prayer
Dm C Em7 Am
Running to the rock, running to the sea
Dm C Em7 Am
Prayin' to the Lord , please shelter me
Dm C Em7 Am
But the ground keeps shaking,
Dm C Em7 Am
water is boiling on fire
Dm C Em7 Am
Blood pulsing through their veins
Dm C Em7 Am
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Verse]
Am Dm
Clocks stopping at twelve
C F Em7
on the eve of a forgotten war
Am Dm
Luis drivin' a '59
C F Em7
making it half way across the Gulf
Dm C Em7 Am
Stranded on the rock, stranded on the sea
Dm C Em7 Am
There's a wall in the ocean between you and me
Dm C Em7 Am
Dreams of reaching dry land,
Dm C Em7 Am
talking to the fortune teller
Dm C Em7 Am
Prisoners pounding the jail
Dm C Em7 Am
like the waves crashing on the Malecón wall
[Bridge]
Am
Someone lost an eye,
Am
someone lost the truth
Am
Trying to save face,
Am
oh 'neath the eyes of the Virgin el Cobre
Am
Shout me a line sister, shout me a line sister
Am
Oh I see your hands in the air, see you drowning on the other side side
[Intro Riff] x2
[Verse]
Am Dm
"Chief's in the parish and the drummers in the square
Am Dm
Walkin' across the fire, walkin' across the waves"
Dm C Em7 Am
Sinner in the rock, sinner in the sea
Dm C Em7 Am
There's a sunken bridge 'tween you and me
Dm C Em7 Am
Running past the embassy gates,
Dm C Em7 Am
and the Santería shrine
Dm C Em7 Am
Blood pulsing thru their veins
Dm C Em7
like the waves they remember
Em7 Am
Crashing on the Malecón wall
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Calexico - Fortune Teller
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 133
Capo 4
Chords :
A#maj : x3321x Alternate with the A#
C6 : 320000
Cadd : 330010
Dm7 : x02213
[Intro]
A# Dm Am Dm
A# Dm Am
A# Dm Am Dm
A# F C F
[Verse]
Dm C6 F/C Fadd9 C/C
I was just standing turning around
Dm C A#
That's when they caught me heading down
Dm C F/C Fadd9 C/C
Keep on going don't look away
A# F C F Cadd9
That's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Chorus]
A#maj Dm C6 Dm Dsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A#maj Dm C C
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A#maj Dm C6 Dm Dsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A# F C F/C Fadd9 C/C
Yeah that's what they tell me, that's what they say
[Verse]
Dm C6 F/C Fadd9 C/C
You're a pretty thought I suppose
Dm C A#
I'm just trying to hold up as I go
Dm C F/C Fadd9 C/C
And one day I swear I'll spread my wings
A# F C F
I'm on my way to finer things
[Chorus]
A#maj Dm C6 Dm Dm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A#maj Dm C C
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A#maj Dm C6 Dm Dsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A# F C F/C Fadd9 C/C
I'm on my way to finer things
[Verse]
Dm C6 F/C Fadd9 C/C
It wasn't just me playing those games
Dm C A#
Still it's my own fault just the same
Dm C F/C Fadd9 C/C
I opened up, I let you in
A# F C F/C Fadd9 C/C
Now these crystal fields are wearing thin
[Chorus]
A#maj Dm C6 Dm Dm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A#maj Dm C
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A#maj Dm C6 Dm Dsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A# F/C C F/C Fadd9 C/C
I opened up, I let you in
[Verse]
Dm C6 F/C Fadd9 C/C
I'm walking with the fortune teller
Dm C A#
I can see my own way home
Dm C F/C Fadd9 C/C
But I don't like this dark road anymore
A# F C F/C Fadd9 C/C
And I don't wanna be alone for long
[Chorus]
A#maj Dm C6 Dm Dm7
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A#maj Dm C
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A#maj Dm C6 Dm Dsus2
Mmm Mmm mmm mmm
A# F/C C F/C Fadd9 C/C
Don't wanna be alone for long
A# F/C C F/C Fadd9 C/C
I don't wanna be on this dark road alone
[Outro]
A# F/C C F/C
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Calexico - Para
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo : 148
Am : 022000 and after the Emadd9 : 022003
Emadd9 : 022002
[Intro]
Am
Am Amadd9 Em
[Verse]
Am
I hold your wrist
B
You bite your lip
Dm E7
The push becomes an embrace
Am Amadd9 Em
I touch your face
B
You close your eyes
Dm E7
The embrace becomes a shove
Am Amadd9 Em
I walk away
B
You follow too close
Dm E7
The shove takes hold, and there’s nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Am Am/B Am/C Am/C#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Dm E7 F E7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Am Am/B Am/C Am/C#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Dm E7 F E7 E7 Am
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below the waterline
[Verse]
Am
I see you now
B
Through a glass wall
Dm E7
All that is you stays with you, all that is me stays with me
Am
But we see it all
B
We feel it all
Dm E7
And there is no place we can't go
[Chorus]
Am Am/B Am/C Am/C#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Dm E7 F E7
Take it down, Take it all the way down
Am Am/B Am/C Am/C#
Take it down, Take it all the way
Dm E7 F E7 E7 Am
Take it down, Take it all the way down, below
E7 E7 E7 Am
down, below the waterlinee
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Calexico - Maybe on Monday
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Album : Algiers (2012)
Tempo :
Capo on 3rd
[Intro]
Dm Dsus2 Dm Dsus2 G
[Verse]
Dm G Dm G Dm G Dm G
Woke up on Monday and wrote you a love song, wrote you a love song
Dm G Dm G
Well the pen stopped and the paper flew out the window
Dm G Dm G
And the notes rang down the road
[Chorus]
A# F C Dm
I dont know where theyll go get caught in the trees I suppose
A# F C Dm Dm G Dm G
Ripped apart by the birds and the winter winds whisper goodbye to your love
Dm G Dm G
Dm G Dm G Dm G Dm G
Went out walking into the storm, into the storm
Dm G Dm G Dm G Dm G
Followed what I thought was your voice but it was just the riverside
A# F C Dm
I dont know where theyll go but I cast the letters you wrote
A# F C Dm
Taken out by the current or sink to the bottom to..
..Say a little goodbye
Dm G
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Dm G
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Dm G
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Dm G
(To your love)
*GUITAR SOLO*
Dm G x4
Dm Dm/C Dm/A# Dm/A
Skies dark and the wind blew the trees down
Gm F A7
I watched as the world slipped away
Dm Dm/C Dm/A# Dm/A
Carved into the bark a final love song
Gm F A7
Then I carried the words to the fire
A# F C Dm
Staring into the glow where the branches are burning low
A# F C Dm
Sparks shooting out like stars and in the morning..
..Say a little goodbye
Dm G
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Dm G
(To your love)
Say a little goodbye
Dm G
(Say goodbye)
To your love
Dm G
(To your love)
Dm G Dm A Dm
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
Dm A
Lupita's 'gonna weave a path to the land up north
Dm A
'Gonna find her way through the thick of it all
Dm A
Looking at the lights dancing in the sky
Dm A
Hoping for a fallen star
Spanish part
Dm A
Me consuelo viendo estrellas bailando en el puerto
Pre-Verse
Gm Dm A
Brought them gold from the country to help cure their illness
Gm Dm A
But they landed with only one purpose for conquest
Gm Dm A A7
Though there's still this wave of unsettling hunger that never disappears
Am-A-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 2
Dm A
Rigo working one, two, three different jobs
Dm A
And when he comes back home he welds into the night
Dm A
Builds an air balloon for his pickup truck
Dm A
'Gonna fly up and over the wall
Ref.
Dm Dm/B
If everything stays exactly the same
Dm/A# A
Then nothing can move and nothing can change
Spanish part
Dm A
Me siento ese p?jaro que danza sobre el puerto
Pre-Verse
Gm Dm A
Carried ships from the sea up over the mountains
Gm Dm A
The warriors fell to their knees by the invisible virus
Gm Dm A A7
And still you can feel this wave of unsettling anger that never disappears
Am-A-Am-E (like Intro)
Verse 3
Dm A
She's talking on the phone in the heart of town
Dm A
To her Bachata Mama in the heart of the world
Dm A
Saying "please come back to Santo Domingo
Dm A
Why you gotta be so far away"
Ref.
Dm Dm/B
If everything stays exactly the same
Dm/A# A
Then no one can move and no one can change
Spanish part
Dm A
Amo ver la Luna vacilando en el puerto
Gm Dm A
No one fortelling the depth and type of destruction
Gm Dm A
Nor the sadness trapped on the tongue of Malinche
Gm Dm A
Quetzalcoatl feathers strewn out over the altar
Gm Dm A
Blood running down the pyramid steps in the morning
Gm Dm A
Codices lost to a language that's been broken
Gm Dm A A7
There's this growing sense of impending anger that never disappears
Am-A-Am-E (like Intro)
Spanish part
Dm A Dm 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
Am6 : 022020
Am7 : 022030
Am : xx200x
Gb : x4312x
Bsus4(#5) : xx200x
[Intro]
Em Am Em Am Em Am
Em ? B7
Em
[Verse]
Em Am Em Am Em
There's a letter sh e keeps inside, a list of everyone she knows
Am Em ? B7 Em
Behind her closed eyes that turn her in when it's time to go
Em Am Em Am Em
She's heading north into the haze, raise the wire and they raise the rent
Am Em Gb B7 Em
She's walking the sun back home and in the night the moon is gone
[Chorus]
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C
Is it better?
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C
Is it better and better?
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C Bsus4(#5) Gb B
Is it better than staying home with nowhere to go?
[Verse]
Em Am Em Am Em
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Em Am Em Am Em
Draw my finger in the dirt and down another blue road
Am Em ? B7 Em
She's in Kansas and Alabam', Idaho and the Carolines
Em Am Em Am Em
Know I've seen her before can't you recognize those hands
[Chorus]
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C
Is it better?
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C
Is it better and better?
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C Bsus4(#5) Gb B
Is it better than staying back home?
I've seen your face out on the plains drifting all alone
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C
Is it better?
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C
Is it better and better?
Am7 Am6 Am C C#dim C Bsus4(#5) Gb B
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 Dm
In the afternoon of orange blossom days
F C (D/F#)
Hummingbirds rest above where we lay
Am C F C (D/F#)
You say it's ok, no need to fret
Am C F C/E Dm
The weight of it all, will ease as we find
F C/E Dm C
The balance in each step we make
[Verse]
C Dm
Swinging back'n forth, in a Palo Verde tree
F C (D/F#)
The wind in the needles, hushes you asleep
Am C F C (D/F#)
And even with the strain, your heart remains
Am C
And don't doubt why, darlin'
F C/E Dm
In time you will find
F C/E Dm
We're alright we were born
F C/E Dm C
Like the branch to bend and not to break
[Break]
C Dm
F C (D/F#)
Am C F C (D/F#)
Reconcile and resurrect
Am C
Tombstone rose
F C/E Dm
Growing up and over the gates
F C/E Dm
To where our children play
F C/E Dm C
The future wraps round like vines, inside these arms
[Break]
Am C
F C (D/F#)
Am C
F C/E Dm
Darlin' will you say
F C/E Dm
In our final embrace
F C/E Dm
Before returning 'neath the clay
F C/E Dm 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]
Cm D# Gm A#
[Verse]
Cm D# Gm A#
On the longest day
Cm D# Gm A#
The vanishing mind
[Chorus]
Fm G#
Knows not when the day ends
Cm D# Gm
Who could care for you
A# Cm D# Gm A#
Who could understand
[Verse]
Cm D# Gm A#
In the room sealed shut
Cm D# Gm A#
You're not what you were
Fm Cm
So much sweeter now
G#
That there's nothing left to
A#
Remember you
[Bridge]
D# A#
It's what brought you here
Cm Gm
It's what keeps you here
D# A#
Who could care for you
Cm G
Who could understand
G# D# G Cm F
Know not when the day ends or begins anymore
Cm D# Gm A# Cm D# Gm A#
In the hallway and waiting again
Cm D# Gm A#
Here we are, here we sit
Cm D# Gm A#
The light turning grey
Fm Cm
Your smile brings me back
G#
To the longest day
A#
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