Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes - Landlocked Blues guitar tab

"Landlocked Blues"

(feat. Emmylou Harris)

Capo on 3

C G C

If you walk away, I'll walk away

C G C

First tell me which road you will take

Am G C Am

I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day

C G C

So you walk that way, I'll walk this way

C G C

And the future hangs over our heads

C G C

And it moves with each current event

Am G C Am

Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain

C G C

Just stay in when it's looking this way

C G C

And the moon's laying low in the sky

C G C

Forcing everything metal to shine

Am G C Am

And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case

C G C

They argue walk this way, now walk this way

C G C

And Laura's asleep in my bed

C G C

As I'm leaving she wakes up and says

Am G C Am

"I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave

C G C

Baby don't go away, come here"

C G C

And there's kids playing guns in the street

C G C

And ones pointing his tree branch at me

Am G C Am

So I put my hands up I say "enough is enough,

C G C

If you walk away, I'll walk away"

And he shot me dead

Am G C

I found a liquid cure

Am G C

From my landlocked blues

F G C Am

It'll pass away like a slow parade

C G C

It's leaving but I don't know how soon

C G C

And the world's got me dizzy again

C G C

You think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin

Am G C Am

And it only feels worse when I stay in one place

C G C

So I'm always pacing around or walking away

C G C

I keep drinking the ink from my pen

C G C

And I'm balancing history books up on my head

Am G C Am

But it all boils down to one quotable phrase

C G C

If you love something, give it away

C G C

A good woman will pick you apart

C G C

A box full of suggestions for your possible heart

Am G C Am

But you may be offended and you may be afraid

C G C

But don't walk away, don't walk away

C G C

We made love on the living room floor

C G C

With the noise in the background of a televised war

Am G C Am

And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say

C G C

"If we walk away, they'll walk away"

C G C

But greed is a bottomless pit

C G C

And our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss

Am G C Am

And the whole world must watch the sad comic display

C G C

If you're still free start running away

Cause we're coming for you!

C G C

I've grown tired of holding this post

C G C

I feel more like a stranger each time I come home

Am G C Am

So I'm making a deal with the devils of faith

C G C

Saying "let me walk away, please"

C G C

You'll be free child once you have died

C G C

From the shackles of language and immeasurable time

Am G C Am

And then we can trade places, play musical grace

C G C

Till then walk away, walk away

Am G C

So I'm up at dawn

Am G C

Putting on my shoes

F G C Am

I just want to make a clean escape

Am G C

I'm leaving but I don't know where to

I know I'm leaving but I don't know where to

Alternate way:

Landlocked Blues - Bright Eyes

Tabbed by Dan Eikanger

Capo on 1st fret

D A D

if you walk away i'll walk away

D A D

first tell me which road you will take

B A D B

i don't want to risk our paths crossing some day

D A D

so you walk that way, i'll walk this way

same progession for all verses...

chord before chorus is a D7

CHORUS:

B A D D

i found a liquid cure

B A D D

for my landlocked blues

B A

it will pass away

D B

like a slow parade

D

it's leaving

A D

but i don't know how soon

song played with capo at 3rd fret

this tab is NOT RELATIVE TO CAPO

e|-----------------------6--6h8--6-6---6-6h8-6-8--6p3----6p3-----------------|

B|----6/8--6--6/8-----8-------------------------------8------8--86----------|

G|--8-------------8----------------------------------------------------------|

D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

B|---------6/8--86----------------------------------------------------------|

G|--3h5-8------------8-------------------------------------------------------|

D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Horn solo

e----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

B----------------7------7------7------7-----7-10---7---------------7-8-10-8-7------|

G-------7------7------7------7------7-----7----------7--------7--9------------9-7--|

D---7-7------7------7------7------7--------------------7--7-7----------------------|

A----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

E----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

dont get confused and think this isnt enough, cause theres a bass part and i almost

say another guitar part, but just listen and youll see its pretty dead on

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