Biography:
Hostage Calm was a rock/punk/hardcore band from Connecticut that debuted in the summer of 2007 with a 4-song CD-R demo, later re-released on a 7" by Headcount Records . Their first LP, Lens, was originally released in May of 2008 on Redscroll Records, based out of Wallingford, CT. Hostage Calm released their second LP, Hostage Calm, on Run For Cover Records in August 2010, and their third LP Please Remain Calm in October 2012, also on Run For Cover Records.
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Hostage Calm
On Both Eyes
Please Remain Calm
2012
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: C#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C# - x46664
G# - 466544
G#m - 466444
Bbm - x13321
F# - 244322
F#m - 244222
Ebm - x68876
Fm - 133111
Eb/G - 365xxx
B - x24442
C#/F - 143xxx
Eb - x68886
G#/C - x365xx
G - 320033
Chorus 1:
F# Ebm
And when the floor gave out
Bbm G# C#
we made our way to the ground
G# F# Ebm
And laid for hours In the ashen
Bbm G#
dirt we knew we didn’t
C# G# F#--
have much But it was ours
Verse 1:
Ebm
Between loneliness
C# G#
and some broken love
C#
I’d choose none
G# F#
of the above
Ebm
They say we wanted it
C# G#--
a little too much
Interlude: Bbm-G#-C#-- x2
Verse 2:
Bbm G# C#
Oh it’s a distant land
Bbm
The one where we live
G#
But it slipped from our
C# Bbm G#
hands The grass overgrown
C#
the broken family home
Bbm G#--
See the place where we grew up
Chorus 2:
C#
Turned a circus
G#
for gamblers
Ebm F#
and gawkers and thieves
C# G#
When the word got around
Ebm
we spilled out on
F#m
the streets
C# G#
As the banks decorate
Ebm B(hold)
every house in defeat
Chorus 3:
C# C#/F
All set to expire
Bbm
A fighter past his
Eb/G
prime My daddy said
G# C#/F
No one likes a whiner
G# F# Ebm--F#(Hold)
But I got shiners on both eyes
Interlude: Bbm-G#-F#-C#-
Verse 3:
Bbm G#
Boy is there a job for
C# Ebm Bbm
you? And if there was
G# C# Ebm
Would you even want to?
Chorus 4:
Ebm
Cause when the floor gave out
Bbm G# C#
we made our way to the ground
G# F#
And laid for hours
Ebm
Cut-up and hurt you
Bbm G#
held me firm
C#
The world moved
G# F#
on without us
Verse 4:
Ebm
my honesty’s
G#
a little too much
C#
But there’s no one
G# F#
fighting for us
Ebm
Is there something here
C# F#m(hold)
that you can still love?
Chorus 5:
C# C#/F
All set to expire
Bbm
A fighter past his
Eb/G
prime My daddy said
G# C#/F
No one likes a whiner
G# F#(hold)
But I got shiners on both eyes
Bridge:
Ebm
Still my memory
F#m
stays and replays
C#
The first time
G#/C Bbm Eb--
that we held hands
Ebm
Or was it our
world at all?
C#
Young and racing
towards nothing
Bbm
Was it our world at all?
G#
Burning headlong with
the blinders on
Ebm
Sold all my stock of
C#
the American dream
Bbm
More than someone to fuck
G
Before we all fall asleep
Verse 5:
Ebm
I see a broken world
C# G#
coming for us
And Maria
C#
It’s you and me
G# F#
Fighting for love
Ebm C#
If we can believe
G#
it’s enough
Bbm
We’ll take the bombs
G# C#
from the great above
Ebm Bbm
from the great above
G# Ebm--
from the great above
Chorus 6:
C# C#/F
All set to expire
Bbm
A fighter past his
Eb/G
prime My daddy said
G#(hold) C#/F
No one likes a whiner
Bbm G# F# F#m
But I got shiners on both eyes
C# C#/F
All set to expire
Bbm
A fighter past his
Eb/G
prime My daddy said
G# C#/F
No one likes a whiner
G#m--F#--F#(hold)
But I got
On Both Eyes
Please Remain Calm
2012
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: C#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C# - x46664
G# - 466544
G#m - 466444
Bbm - x13321
F# - 244322
F#m - 244222
Ebm - x68876
Fm - 133111
Eb/G - 365xxx
B - x24442
C#/F - 143xxx
Eb - x68886
G#/C - x365xx
G - 320033
Chorus 1:
F# Ebm
And when the floor gave out
Bbm G# C#
we made our way to the ground
G# F# Ebm
And laid for hours In the ashen
Bbm G#
dirt we knew we didn’t
C# G# F#--
have much But it was ours
Verse 1:
Ebm
Between loneliness
C# G#
and some broken love
C#
I’d choose none
G# F#
of the above
Ebm
They say we wanted it
C# G#--
a little too much
Interlude: Bbm-G#-C#-- x2
Verse 2:
Bbm G# C#
Oh it’s a distant land
Bbm
The one where we live
G#
But it slipped from our
C# Bbm G#
hands The grass overgrown
C#
the broken family home
Bbm G#--
See the place where we grew up
Chorus 2:
C#
Turned a circus
G#
for gamblers
Ebm F#
and gawkers and thieves
C# G#
When the word got around
Ebm
we spilled out on
F#m
the streets
C# G#
As the banks decorate
Ebm B(hold)
every house in defeat
Chorus 3:
C# C#/F
All set to expire
Bbm
A fighter past his
Eb/G
prime My daddy said
G# C#/F
No one likes a whiner
G# F# Ebm--F#(Hold)
But I got shiners on both eyes
Interlude: Bbm-G#-F#-C#-
Verse 3:
Bbm G#
Boy is there a job for
C# Ebm Bbm
you? And if there was
G# C# Ebm
Would you even want to?
Chorus 4:
Ebm
Cause when the floor gave out
Bbm G# C#
we made our way to the ground
G# F#
And laid for hours
Ebm
Cut-up and hurt you
Bbm G#
held me firm
C#
The world moved
G# F#
on without us
Verse 4:
Ebm
my honesty’s
G#
a little too much
C#
But there’s no one
G# F#
fighting for us
Ebm
Is there something here
C# F#m(hold)
that you can still love?
Chorus 5:
C# C#/F
All set to expire
Bbm
A fighter past his
Eb/G
prime My daddy said
G# C#/F
No one likes a whiner
G# F#(hold)
But I got shiners on both eyes
Bridge:
Ebm
Still my memory
F#m
stays and replays
C#
The first time
G#/C Bbm Eb--
that we held hands
Ebm
Or was it our
world at all?
C#
Young and racing
towards nothing
Bbm
Was it our world at all?
G#
Burning headlong with
the blinders on
Ebm
Sold all my stock of
C#
the American dream
Bbm
More than someone to fuck
G
Before we all fall asleep
Verse 5:
Ebm
I see a broken world
C# G#
coming for us
And Maria
C#
It’s you and me
G# F#
Fighting for love
Ebm C#
If we can believe
G#
it’s enough
Bbm
We’ll take the bombs
G# C#
from the great above
Ebm Bbm
from the great above
G# Ebm--
from the great above
Chorus 6:
C# C#/F
All set to expire
Bbm
A fighter past his
Eb/G
prime My daddy said
G#(hold) C#/F
No one likes a whiner
Bbm G# F# F#m
But I got shiners on both eyes
C# C#/F
All set to expire
Bbm
A fighter past his
Eb/G
prime My daddy said
G# C#/F
No one likes a whiner
G#m--F#--F#(hold)
But I got
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