Secret Meeting

The National, Secret Meeting.

The fundamental chord progressions in this song are very basic. But you don't hear

just strumming the chords in the

recording, so I would be foolish to approach this song on my own with an acoustic guitar

expect to replicate what I've heard

on the CD. Make it your own.

The arrangement on the CD appears to be several electric guitar tracks just finger

around pairs of notes so there are often

added notes and suspensions that make the harmony a little more coloured. If you're

it on your own just play the chords. I would

assume that if you were musical enough to be able to arrange it yourself, you wouldn't

looking at this page.

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Intro Bm D

I think this place is full of spies

I think they're onto me

Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you

Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room

I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my...

brain

It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

And now I'm sorry I missed you

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain

I think this place is full of spies

I think I'm ruined

Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you

Didn't anybody tell you, this river's full of lost sharks

I know you put in the hours to keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my...

brain

It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

And now I'm sorry I missed you

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain

And now I'm sorry I missed you

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain

It went the dull and wicked ordinary way

If you want to add a more colourful sense of harmony to the song (though I wouldn't

overusing it with just an acoustic),

instead of playing |D - A - Bm - G

try

These are accurate chords, but it's nigh on impossible to tab because there is so much

on in and it's mixed so lo-fi.

That's why it's great.

Queries,

jreid38@qub.ac.uk

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