The Clientele are a London-based band with Alasdair MacLean on vocals and guitar, Mark Keen on drums, James Hornsey on bass and Mel Draisey on Keys and Violin.
MacLean and Hornsey began collaborating musically while still in school, after MacLean saw that Hornsey had written the name of the band Felt on his pencil case. The band formed in 1991, with the current lineup along with Innes Phillips, who shared singing and songwriting duties with MacLean.
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As with the other Clientele tabs, you need to add a few embellishments due to the picking. On the normal E chord during the chorus Alistair seems to use his little finger on the high E string to pick out the 4th and 2nd frets.
The E* means play with the 7th fret barre version of the chord. Also use your little finger here in the chorus to pick out some of those high notes further up the neck. The B(sus4) chord means alternate between B and Bsus4 (fairly obvious in the track).
| B | E | A | E | x2
BEAE When I'm riding home at night now BEAE I get in so tired BEAE To the saws and bows that spell out BEAE E-M-P-T-Y
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BE* F# But driving west now E* B Half-past five E* F# My skin is cut E* B My hands are knives E* F#E* B I could be anyone alive EAE But I just can't fit BEAE And it's too late to quit
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Chorus: E* B(sus4) When the night air comes to me E I wonder if the days I've lived through count E* B(sus4) With the world strung like a rosary E Through faces moving in the crowd
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AEB(sus4) What is the color and the number E When happiness begins? AEB(sus4) When the knight waits in the laurels F#(low) E Hesitating...
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| C# |
B I found a clarity I've never known EAE In fag-end weeks before I left for school C# The darkness in the pylons B And the smoke and creosote EAE Cancelling the faces that we knew
| B | E | A | E | x2
Solo: | E | (freak out on the E chord)
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BE* F#E* B Did they forget the light inside your eyes? E* F#E* B Those simple words, those lovers' signs? E* F#E* B The hand is dealt, the cards are played EAE But I just can't fit BEAE And it's too late to quit
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Chorus: E* B(sus4) I saw them, and I knew them all E Inside a sheet of flame E* B(sus4) I saw them, and I knew them all E Inside a sheet of flame
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BEAE When I'm riding home at night now BEAE I get in so tired BEAE To the saws and bows that spell out BEAE E-M-P-T-Y E-M-P-T-Y E-M-P-T-Y
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