Narrow Stairs

i didn't tab any of this.

1.Bixby Canon Bridge (blakwyte)

2.I Will Posses Your Heart (jedichewy)

3.No Sunlight (nophilip)

4.Cath... (Unregistered)

5.Talking Bird (Unregistered)

6.You Can do Better Than Me (Bluesdood47)

7.Grapevine Fires (Weerez87)

8.Your New Twin-Sized Bed (thijsr)

9.Long Division (Epic Noob)

10.Pity and Fear (sanjeev.mishra)

11.The Ices is Getting Thinner (dfc_jebus)

ARTIST : Death Cab for Cutie

TRACK : Bixby Canyon Bridge

ALBUM : Narrow Stairs

TUNING : Standard

AUTHOR : blakwyte(at)gmail.com

Verse:

|WALLA

B|--5#--1#--|

G|--5#--2#--| x4

Chorus:

|GIBBARD

|WALLA |

B|--6#----------------------13#---------8#-----------|

|GIBBARD

|WALLA |

B|--6#-------------------------------------------------|

Bridge:

|GIBBARD (+ WALLA AFTER 2 REPS)

|GIBBARD

|WALLA |

|GIBBARD

|WALLA |

|GIBBARD |1st |2nd |

|WALLA | | |

|GIBBARD

|WALLA |

Legend:

# - tremolo picking

/ - slide

b - bend

r - return

Order:

VERSE

CHORUS

VERSE

CHORUS

BRIDGE

VERSE

Death Cab for Cutie

I will possess your heart

Tabbed by:jedichewy

Tuning: standard

These parts are played by a bass guiatar and piano, I think...

anywho. I transcribed it for regular guitar. Enjoy

*** I've updated to include the intro and other parts for piano.***

INTRO

BASS PART:

Piano part

BRIDGE

"you reject my..." play as needed

Title: No Sunlight

Artist: Death Cab for Cutie

Album: Narrow Stairs

Tabbed by: Josh Tiesma (nophilip@gmail.com)

This is a very fun song to play from Death Cab's new album (which is awesome). It sounds

cheery when you first hear it, but when you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of

Anyways, there's no other tabs for this song out there online. I'm sure this is 99.9%

with the exception of the section I have marked "possibly not correct".

Intro (Palm mute = *)

* * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * (Gradually let off mute, last 2 are open)

Verse 1

Play this all through:

"When I was young/ Lying in the grass

I felt so safe/ In the warming bath"

* * * * * * * *

Then the last time you play

* * * * * * * *

Then it's

Of sunlight Of sunlight

* * * * * * * *

Verse 2/3 (Verse 3 lyrics in parentheses)

Vast open sky (With every year)

Could do no harm (That came to pass)

Like an embrace (More clouds appeared)

From mother's arms (Til the sky went black, and there was)

In sunlight (No sunlight) In sunlight (No sunlight)

In sunlight In sunlight

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

Here's where the verses 2 and 3 differ.

Verse 2 does this:

Verse 3 does this instead:

Anymore

Bridge

Play this through

"It disappeared at the same speed

As the idealistic things I believed"

Then play this the third time

And the optimist died inside of me

Then there's a fill

Then a chorus here

No sunlight No sunlight

No sunlight No sunlight

Then play the bridge again

Then a different fill after that. This one is possibly incorrect.

Then the last chorus

No sunlight No sunlight

No sunlight No sunlight

No sunlight No sunlight

No sunlight No sunlight

No sunlight

End on an open A chord (X02220) for the "Anymore"

CATH - Death Cab For Cutie

Tabbed by: Kevin Reed

Email: kevin.12389@gmail.com

Tuning: Standard E

CAPO 2 !

Intro

B-x-x-x-x-0-/0-0-0--------------------------------------—3—0----------|

G-x-x-x-x-2-/4-4-4-p0-----------------0-----------------—0—0----------|

D-----------------------------0-h2-h4-------------------—0—0----------|

E----------------------------------------------------3-3—3—3----------|

B-0-/0-0-0--------------------------------------—3—0----------|

G-2-/4-4-4-p0-----------------0-----------------—0—0----------|

D---------------------0-h2-h4-------------------—4—0----------|

E--------------------------------------------3-3—3—3----------|

B-0-/0-0-0--------------------------------------—3—0----------|

G-2-/4-4-4-p0-----------------0-----------------—0—0----------|

D---------------------0-h2-h4-------------------—0—0----------|

E--------------------------------------------3-3—3—3----------|

Verse 1

Chorus 1

Verse 2

Interlude 2

Final Chorus

B-0---0---0---0---3—--3—--2-----------|

G-9---7---6---2---0—--0—--2-----------|

D-x---x---x---x---2—--0—--2-----------|

A-7---5---4---0---3—--2—--0-----------|

B-0---0---0-\-0----------|

G-9---7---6-\-2----------|

D-x---x---x-\-x----------|

A-7---5---4-\-0----------|

Talking Bird

Death Cab For Cutie

Narrow Stairs

Tuning: Standard (E B G D A E)

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-Verse-

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Oh, my talking bird

Though you know so few words

They're on infinite repeat

Like your brain can't keep up with your beak

And your kept in an open cage

So you're free to leave or stay

And sometimes you get confused

Like there is a hint I'm trying to give you

-Chorus-

The longer you think

The less you know what to do

Well it's hard to see your way out

When you live in a house in a house

'Cause you don't realize

That the windows were open the whole time

But oh, my talking bird

Though your feathers are tattered and furled

I love you all your days

'Til the breath leaves your delicate frame

-Chorus / Outro-

It's all here for you

As long as you choose to stay

It's all here for you

As long as you don't fly away

You Can do better than me

"You Can Do Better Than Me" off the album "Narrow Stairs"

G, C, G, C

G C G C Am G (C, G, C)

I'm starting to feel we stay together out of fear of dying alone

I've been slipping through the years, my old clothes don't fit like

Am C G (C, G, C)

they once did, so they hang like ghosts of the people I've been.

but it's like my heart can't contain i fall in love every day

G (C, G, C)

and i feel like a fool.

I have to face the truth, that no one could ever look at me like you do

C G (C, G, C)

like I'm something worth holding on to.

There's times I think of leaving, but it's something I'll never do.

Cause you can do better than me, but I can't do better than you.

You can do better than me, but I can't do better than you.

Grapevine Fires

Death Cab For Cutie

Narrow Stairs

Capo 1

Standard Tuning

All chords in relation to capo

When the wind picked up the fire spread

And the grapevines seemed left for dead

And the Northern sky looked like the end of days

The end of days

The wake-up call to a rented room

Sounded like an alarm of impending doom

To warn us it's only a matter of time

-Chorus-

Before we all burn

Before we all burn

Before we all burn

Bm D A (hold A)

Before we all burn

We bought some wine and some paper cups

Near your daughters school when we picked her up

And drove to a cemetery on a hill

On a hill

And we watched the plumes paint the sky gray

But she laughed and danced through the field of graves

And there I knew it would be alright

That everything

-Chorus-

Would be alright

Would be alright

Would be alright

Bm D A (hold A)

Would be alright

-Bridge-

And the news reports on the radio

Said it was getting worse

As the ocean air fanned the flames

But I couldn't think

Of anywhere I would of rather been

To watch it all burn away

-Chorus-

To burn away

Bm D A (hold A)

Bm D A (hold A)

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-Outro-

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And the firemen worked in double shifts

With prayers for rain on their lips

D A (fade)

And they knew it was only a matter of time

your new twin-sized bed

Tuning: Standard, Capo on 1

"Your New Twin Sized Bed"

Returning theme, Gibbard plays this (counted without the capo)

Chords are respective to the capo. If you want to play it without the capo, it would be

A#, G#, and Fm.

I'm still not really sure about that G# (G in the tabs). I play it with an extra D#.

Any suggestions?

You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed

With a single pillow underneath your single head

I guess you decided that that old queen was more space than you would need

Now it's in the alley behind your apartment with a sign that says it's free

And I hope you have more luck with this than me

You used to think that someone would come along.

And lay beside you in a space that they belong.

But the other side of the mattress and box springs stayed like new.

'n what's the point of holding onto what never gets used?

Other than to sit and desire for self-abuse.

And I try not to worry, but you've got me terrified

It's like your in some kind of hurry

To say goodbye, say goodbye, say goodbye

You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed

You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed

long division

This can be played with a capo on third which makes it a lot easier, but for those

capos.. enjoy. n_n

Intro/Verse

Verse part 2

Intro/Verse

Chorus:

To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder

Intro/Verse

Intro/Verse

Chorus:

Without a remain, remain, remain, remainder

Bridge

B|------------------------| Fast Strumming

B|12-12-12-12-12-12-10-10-| Fast Strumming

Chorus/Outro:

To be a remain, remain, remain, remainder

Pity and Fear - Death Cab for Cutie

Tabbed by: Sanjeev Mishra

Email: sanjeev.mishra94@gmail.com

Tuning: Standard

Intro/Verse

Chorus

2nd Chorus (Guitar 1) and End of First Chorus

2nd Chorus (Guitar 2)

Outro

The Ice Is Getting Thinner

This is the way i play these two chords.

F#m7b5 C#dim[/ch]

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-Intro-

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Were not the same, dear

As we used to be

The seasons have changed

And so have we

And there was little we could say

And even less that we could do

To stop the ice from getting thinner

Under me and you

We buried our love

In a wintery grave

A lump in the snow

Was all that remained

Though we stayed by its side

As the days turned to weeks

And the ice kept getting thinner

With ever word that we'd speak

-Bridge-

And when the spring arrived

We were taken by surprise

When the flows under our feet

Bled into the sea

And nothing was left

For you and me

Were not the same, dear

And it seems to me

There's nowhere we can go

With nothing underneath

And it saddens me to say

What we both knew was true

That the ice was getting thinner

Under me and you

The ice was getting thinner

Under me and you