Tab: "Recovering the Satellites," Counting Crows
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)

All guitars are tuned down 1/2 step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
Intro: guitar 1, slight distortion
   A                          G        D
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|-----2--x-----------------|-----3-----3-----3--3-----|
|-----2--x--2-----0--------|--0--0--x--2--2--2--2--2--|
|--2--2--x--2--2--2--2-----|--0--0--x--4--4--4--4--4--|
|--0--0-----0--0--0--0--0--|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|


   A                          D
|--------------------------|--------------|
|-----2--x-----------------|--3--------3--|
|-----2--x--2-----0--------|--2--------2--|
|--2--2--x--2--2--2--2-----|--4--------4--|
|--0--0-----0--0--0--0--0--|--------------|
|--------------------------|--------------|

Verse: guitar 1 plays the A D progression with the same
rhythmic feel as in the intro (without the G)

A                 D
Gonna get back to basics
Guess I'll start it up again
I'm fallin' from the ceiling
                        * <- Gtr. 2 enters w/ wah, plays fill 1
You're falling from the sky now and then

|--9--\----|
|--10-\----|
|-------\--| Fill 1 (guitar 2 plays this where marked by the *)
|-------\--|
|----------|
|----------|

>From this point on, throughout the verses, gtr. 2 plays this
over the A D progression:
|--------------|-----------|
|--------2-----|-----3-----|
|-----2-----2--|--------2--|
|--------------|--0--------|
|--0-----------|-----------|
|--------------|-----------|

Maybe you were shot down in pieces
Maybe I slipped in between
But we were gonna be the wildest people they ever hoped to see
Just you and me

Guitar 1 plays A D twice more, while guitar 2 plays this:
|--9------9------9h10h12--|--9------9------9h10h12--|
|-----10-----10-----------|-----10-----10-----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------| Fill 2
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|



|--9------9------9h10h12--|--10h12--12--12--12--12--12p10p9--|
|-----10-----10-----------|----------------------------------|
|-------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

Chorus:
E                    D    E                 D
   So why'd you come home to this sleepless town
It's a lifetime commitment
Recovering the satellites
All anybody really wants to know is...
when you gonna come down

Fill 3, played by gtr 2, while gtr. 1 plays A D
|--10h12--10--9----------|---------------------------|
|----------------12--10--|---------------------------|
|------------------------|--12--11--9--7--7h9/11--9--|
|------------------------|---------------------------|
|------------------------|---------------------------|
|------------------------|---------------------------|

    NH
|--<5>---NH--|
|-------<5>--|
|------------| Guitar 2, just before second verse
|------------|
|------------|
|------------|


Your mother recognizes all your desperate displays
and she watches as her babies drift violently away

* (guitar 2