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/ Bright Eyes / Fevers & Mirrors (2000) / The Center of the World guitar tab

No one posted any versions of this,
so even though this is probably way off in many ways,
it's better than nothing.

To people who are actually good at transcription:
Please work off this and finish the rest of the song,
I would love you for it.

e|------------------------|-----------------------|
b|------------------------|-----------------------|
g|------------------------|4----------------------|
d|5--4--5--4--5--4--5--4--|---------------7-------|
a|------------------------|-----------------------|
e|------------------------|-----------------------|

Verse is: G, Bm, Am, C, D.

I haven't figured out the rhythm guitar for the part
following the verse, but little organ thing might go
use these notes, not sure about that third one,
i think it may be f#.

d:|7---5--5h7--7--2| etc.




and at the end, where the guitar comes in now and then:
(t = 10)
e:|----------------|----------------|
b:|--78--t-t-tt8---|----------------|
g:|----------------|----------------|
d:|----------------|----------------|
a:|----------------|----------------|
e:|----------------|----------------|
     h               p



Tablature by Laura Sharp

     G   Bm   Am    C    D    Em OR Em    B
E ---3----2----5----3----5----7------0----2---
B ---3----3----5----5----7----8------0----4---
G ---4----4----5----5----7----9------0----4---
D ---5----4----7----5----7----9------2----4---
A ---5----2----7----3----5----7------2----2---
E ---3----x----5----x----x----x------0----x---


G                    Bm                          Am
At the center of the world there's a statue of a girl
                       C           D               G
She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry
                             Bm                          Am
I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand
                           C                  D           G
This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand

                       Bm                          Am
It came to rest upon a beach with a million others there
                          C                          D             G
We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out so that we could disappear
                        Bm                          Am
Into the endlessness of blue into the horror of the truth
                             C                  D                Em
See, we are far less than we knew, yeah, we are far less than we knew

Em                        C
But we knew what we could taste
Em
Girls found honey to drench our hands
                               B
The men cut marble to mark our graves

B                              G
Said we'll need something to remind us of
                           B
All the sweetness that has passed through us
                                   Em
The priests dressed children for a choir
                             B
But found no joy in what was sung
B   C       D   D G
The funeral had begun

G                    Bm                              Am
In the middle of the day when you drive home to your place
                             C                 D                       G
From that job that makes you sleep back to the thoughts that keep you awake
                             Bm                           Am
Long after night has come to claim any light that still remains
                     C              D              G
In the corner of the frame that you put around her face

    Bm
Two pills just weren't enough
    Am
The alarm clock's going off but you're not waking up
          C                                       D
This isnt happening happening happening happening happening
      G
It is


Bright Eyes albums
2005 I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2005 Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
2002 Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
2000 A Collection of Songs: Recorded 1995-1997
2000 Fevers & Mirrors
1998 Letting Off the Happiness
Fevers & Mirrors tabs
01A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And a Necklace tabbass tab
03The Calendar Hung Itself... tabbass tab
04Something Vague tabbass tab
05The Movement of a Hand tabbass tab
06Arienette tabbass tab
07When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass tabbass tab
08Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh tabbass tab
09The Center of the World tabbass tab
10Sunrise, Sunset tabbass tab
11An Attempt to Tip the Scales tabbass tab
12A Song to Pass the Time tabbass tab

 

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