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--- tabs:distant_stations [2006/02/05 16:06]
andrew created
+++ tabs:distant_stations [2008/02/03 19:35]
ahook Moving the intro riff to the GD string instead of BG
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+=====Distant Stations=====
+<code>
+intro/outro:
+e:------------------------------
+B:------------------------------
+G:---2-2-2--4-4-4--2-2-0--2-2---
+D:---0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0---
+A:------------------------------
+E:------------------------------
+   D            G           D           G
+i found an old rock in the dry dirt outside
+G           A      D
+the door of my motel room.
+          D                          G
+it was a triangle with soft rounded edges
+        D                             G
+and a split down the middle of one corner.
+        G                   A
+it was darker than english moss.
+   D                              G
+green like the soft frills of a peacock's plume.
+   G         A           D                      G
+i waited for you, but i never told you where i was.
+       E7                A        D                    Bm
+it was you who taught me how to write these kinds of equations.
+   G                      A
+i waited on the steps for you,
+       D                           G
+and i hid in the bushes whenever a car pulled into the parking lot.
+E7             A                Bm            G
+you taught me how to listen to these distant stations.
+Bm        G        Bm  G   Bm  G   A
+distant stations.
+(intro)
+i saw the sky break.
+i threw a rock at a crow who was playing in the mulch of some rose bushes by the motel office.
+missed him by a good yard or two.
+i sang old songs from nowhere.
+los angeles.
+albuquerque.
+i said a small prayer for the poor and the naked and the hungry.
+and i prayed real hard for you.
+i waited for you, but i never told you where i was.
+it was you who taught me how to write this kind of equation.
+i waited on the steps for you,
+and i hid in the bushes whenever a car pulled into the parking lot.
+you taight me how to listen to these distant stations.
+distant stations.
+(outro)
+</code>

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