Blood – Middle-East (CAPO ON 4TH FRET)
MAIN RIFF:
E|-------------------------/---7-------------------------|
B|---5---5---5---5---1---1-/---8---8-----5---5----5---5--|
G|---0---0---0---0---2---2-/-------9-----0---0----0---0--|
D|-----0-------0-------2---/-----9---------0--------0----|
A|--3--------------0-------/-7--------3---------3--------|
E|---------3---------------------------------------------|
Intro: (Main Riff x2)
Verse 1:
Older brother, restless soul, lie down.
Lie for a while with your ear against the earth.
You can hear your sister sleep talking,
Say ‘you’re hair is long but not long enough to reach
Chorus:
E|-----------------------------------|
B|---5---5---5---5---3---3----3---3--|
G|---0---0---0---0---0---0----0---0--|
D|-----0-------0---------------------| x2
A|-3-------3-----------0--------0----|
E|-----------------3--------3--------|
Home to me, But your beard, Someday might be.
Bridge:
E|----------------------------------------------------|
B|---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3----|
G|---0---0---0---0—--0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0----|
D|-----2-------2-------2-------2----------------------| x4
A|-2-------2-------3-------3-----------2-------2------|
E|---------------------------------3-------3----------|
And she’ll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
She’ll lay it aside
(Main Riff x2)
Verse 2: (Same picking as riff)
Older father, weary soul, you’ll drive
Back to the home you made on the mountainside
With that ugly, terrible thing
Those papers for divorce
And a lonely ring,
Chorus 2: (Same picking as chorus)
A lonely ring
Sit on your porch
And pluck your strings
Bridge 2: (Can pick bridge riff or strum chords)
Oh, and you’ll find somebody you can blame
And you’ll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
And you’ll find the peace of the Lord.
(Main Riff x2)
Verse 3: (Main riff)
Grandfather, weary soul, you’ll fly
Over your life once more before you die
Since our grandma passed away
You’ve waited for forever and a day
Chorus 3: (Strum)
Just to die,
And someday soon
You will die
Bridge3: (Strum bass note then rest of chord)
It was the only woman you ever loved
That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
And there’s nothing you can do about it now
Outro: (Same as verse - strumming)
x4
G C G x2 (same as chorus)
Outro: G C G x3 (One strum)
Chords Used:
C: X30050
G/C: 3X0050
Am: 002210
Em: 0799870
Em7: 022033
Cadd9: X32033
G: 320033
note: I got the chord structure for the verse, chorus, bridge, and the picking structure
the verse from reservoirdog.
Thank you so much for the help resevoirdog!
The Middle East are such an awesome band, i recommend having a look at some of their songs.
They are not very well known but they do have a myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/visitthemiddleeast