Biography:
The Weakerthans is a Canadian indie rock/folk band headed by former Propagandhi member, John K. Samson and also comprising guitarist Stephen Carroll, bassist Greg Smith, and drummer Jason Tait. The band last released an album, Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre, in 2010. Since 2015, the band has been on hiatus.
The band's blend of punk-inflected folk rock with literate, witty, introspective lyrics have made them one of the most popular bands on the Canadian music scene.
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Other songs:
- A New Name For Everything
- Airport Lounge
- Anchorless
- Aside
- Benediction
- Bigfoot
- Civil Twilight
- Confessions Of A Futon Revolutionist
- Everything Must Go
- Exiles Among You
- Farewell Faded Memory
- History To The Defeated
- Hospital Vespers
- Illustrated Bible Stories For Children
- Last Last One
- Left And Leaving
- Manifest
- Maryland Bridge
- My Favourite Chords
- Night Windows
- None Of The Above
- One Great City
- Our Retired Explorer
- Our Retired Explorer Dines With Michael Foucault In Paris 1961
- Pamphleteer
- Plea From A Cat Named Virtue
- Plea From A Cat Named Virtute
- Reasons
- Reconstrution Site
- Reunion Tour
- Saint Cecilia
- Slips And Tangles
- Sounds Familiar
- Sun In An Empty Room
- Sympathetic Smile
- The Reasons
- This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open
- Tournament Of Hearts
- Utilities
- Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure
- Watermark
- Wellingtons Wednesdays
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SOUNDS FAMILIAR - The Weakerthans
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Tabbed by: lostpanda
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: standard
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We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest
D A Bm G
Shedding skin faster than skin can grow
D A
And armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives
Bm G D A Bm
Words to meet and to define and to, but you must know
D A Bm G
The same games that we played in dirt, in dusty schoolyards
D A Bm G
Has found a higher pitch and broader scale
D A Bm G
Than we feared possible, and someone must be picked last
D A Bm
And one must bruise and one must fail
D A Bm G
And that still twitching bird was so deceived by a window
D A Bm G
So we eulogized fondly, we dug deep and threw
D A Bm G D
Its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole
A Bm G D A
And then we rushed out to kill something new, so we could bury that too
Bm G D A Bm
The first chapters of lives almost made us give up altogether
D A Bm G
Pushed towards tired forms of self-immolation
D A Bm G
That seemed so original, I must, we must never stop
D A Bm G
Watching the sky with our hands in our pockets
D A Bm G
Stop peering in windows when we know doors are shut
D A Bm G
Stop yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows
D A Bm
And my voice will scratch to yell many more
G D A Bm G
But before I spill the things I mean to hide away
D A Bm G
Or gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment
D A Bm G
I'll drown the urge for permanence and certainty
D A Bm G D
Crouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet cement
SOUNDS FAMILIAR - The Weakerthans
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Tabbed by: lostpanda
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: standard
D A Bm G
e|---2----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------2---3---0----------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---0----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------0---2--------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------3----------------------------------------------------------|
D A Bm G
We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest
D A Bm G
Shedding skin faster than skin can grow
D A
And armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives
Bm G D A Bm
Words to meet and to define and to, but you must know
D A Bm G
The same games that we played in dirt, in dusty schoolyards
D A Bm G
Has found a higher pitch and broader scale
D A Bm G
Than we feared possible, and someone must be picked last
D A Bm
And one must bruise and one must fail
D A Bm G
And that still twitching bird was so deceived by a window
D A Bm G
So we eulogized fondly, we dug deep and threw
D A Bm G D
Its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole
A Bm G D A
And then we rushed out to kill something new, so we could bury that too
Bm G D A Bm
The first chapters of lives almost made us give up altogether
D A Bm G
Pushed towards tired forms of self-immolation
D A Bm G
That seemed so original, I must, we must never stop
D A Bm G
Watching the sky with our hands in our pockets
D A Bm G
Stop peering in windows when we know doors are shut
D A Bm G
Stop yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows
D A Bm
And my voice will scratch to yell many more
G D A Bm G
But before I spill the things I mean to hide away
D A Bm G
Or gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment
D A Bm G
I'll drown the urge for permanence and certainty
D A Bm G D
Crouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet cement
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