Biography:
Andrew Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician. He was born in Lake Bluff, Illinois and resides in the Chicago area. Bird is a singer, a violinist and, since 2004, a guitarist. He is also an accomplished whistler.
His early work, which echoed gypsy jazz and traditional folk, has led into his current sound, which mixes rock with more broad compositions. His years of solo song-craft have now enabled him to produce a sound that is uniquely his own.
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Other songs:
- Action/adventure
- Anonanimal
- Are You Serious
- Capsized
- Cataracts
- Dyin' Bedmaker
- Fatal Shore
- Gotholympians
- Lull
- Manifest
- Masters Warm
- Measuring Cups
- Meet Me Here At Dawn
- Oh No
- Orpheo Looks Back
- Pulaski
- Pulaski At Night
- Something Biblical
- Spare Ohs
- Tea And Thorazine
- Three White Horses
- Why?
- Heretics
- 1111
- A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left
- Action Adventure
- Armchairs
- Banking On A Myth
- Bloodless
- Candy Shop
- Case In Point
- Cathedral In The Dell
- Chemical Switches
- Dark Matter
- Darkmatter
- Dear Old Greenland
- Desperation Breeds
- Dont Be Scared
- Dora Goes To Town
- Drunk By Noon
- Effigy
- Fake Palindromes
- Far From Any Road
- Fatal Flower Garden
- Fiery Crash
- Fitz And The Dizzyspells
- Frogs Singing
- Giant Of Illinois
- Give It Away
- Glass Figurine
- Headsoak
- How You Gonna Keep Em Down On The Farm
- If I Needed You
- Imitosis
- Lazy Projector
- Left Handed Kisses
- Lusitania
- Masterfade
- Masterswarm
- Mx Missiles
- Mx Missles
- My Sisters Tiny Hands
- Near Death Experience Experience
- Nomenclature
- Not A Robot But A Ghost
- Nuthinduan Waltz
- Oh Sister
- Opposite Day
- Orpheo
- Plasticities
- Puma
- Railroad Bill
- Richmond Woman
- Roma Fade
- Scythian Empire
- Scythian Empires
- Section 8 City
- Sisyphus
- So Much Wine
- Soldier On
- Some Of These Days
- Souverian
- Spare
- Spirograph
- Sweetbreads
- Tables And Chairs
- Take Courage
- Tenuousness
- The Naming Of Things
- The New Saint Jude
- The Privateers
- The Sad Milkman
- Tin Foil
- Tin Foiled
- Too Long
- Truth Lies Low
- Twistable Turnable Man
- Two Way Action
- Valleys Of The Young
- Wait
- When That Helicopter Comes
- Why
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*-This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song.-*
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Released on March 20th 2007, "Imitosis" is one of the twelve tracks from
Andrew Bird's 3rd album "Armchair Apocrypha". The song consists of several
looped staccato violin tracks and some guitar arrengements that make up an
eclectic atmosphere where Andrew often improvises with his violin in live
performances.
Tabbed by Pelusteriano
Contact at my UG profile
Lyrics by Andrew Bird
Music by Andrew Bird, Martin Dosh & Chris Morrisey
Key of A minor
===============================================================================
CHORDS (low to high, in order of appereance)
Am X02210 C/G 33201X Fmaj7 X3321X E 022100
Note: Play in "reggae style", first with a muted down-stroke,
then play the chord using an up-stroke:
|-X-Am-X-Am-X-C-X-C-|-X-Fmaj7-X-Fmaj7-X-E-X-E-|
INTRO
let ring
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
|| -----5-7-----7-8-|-----5-7--(5)h7p5--- ||
|| -----------5-----|---6--------------6- ||
||O---5-----5-------|-4------------------O||
||O-7---------------|--------------------O||
|| -----------------|-------------------- ||
|| -----------------|-------------------- ||
VERSE I
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
He's keeping busy, yeah, he's bleeding stones
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
With his machinations and his palindromes
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
It was anything but hear the voice
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
Anything but hear the voice
Am C/G
It was anything but hear the voice
Fmaj7 E Am C/G Fmaj7 E
That says that we're all basically alone
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
VERSE II
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
Poor Professor Pynchon had only good intentions
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
When he put his Bunsen burners all away
Am C/G Fmaj7
And turning to a playground in a Petri dish
E Am
Where single cells would swing their fists
C/G Fmaj7 E
At anything that looks like easy prey
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
In this nature show that rages every day
Am C/G Fmaj7 E (strum louder)
It was then he heard his intuition say
Am
We were all basically alone
CHORUS
C/G Fmaj E
And despite what all his studies had shown
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
That what's mistaken for closeness is just a case for mitosis
Am C/G Fmaj7 E Am C/G Fmaj7 E
And why---- do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
Tell me doctor can you quantify?
Am C/G Fmaj7 E (strum louder)
He just wants to know the reason, the reason why
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
VERSE III
Am C/G
Why do they congregate in groups of four
Fmaj7 E Am
Scatter like a billion spores
C/G Fmaj7 E
And let the wind just carry them away?
Am C/G Fmaj7
How can kids be so mean?
E Am
Our famous doctor tried to glean
C/G Fmaj7 E
As he went home at the end of the day
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
In this nature show that rages every day
Am C/G Fmaj7 E (strum louder)
It was then he heard his intuition say
Am
We were all basically alone
CHORUS
C/G Fmaj7 E
Despite what all his studies had shown
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
That what's mistaken for closeness is just a case of mitosis
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
Sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis
Am C/G Fmaj7 E Am C/G Fmaj7 E
And why---- do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?
Am C/G Fmaj7
Well, tell me doctor, can you quantify?
E (strum louder)
The reason why
Am C/G Fmaj7 E ... end on Am
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*-This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song.-*
*-------You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.-------*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
Released on March 20th 2007, "Imitosis" is one of the twelve tracks from
Andrew Bird's 3rd album "Armchair Apocrypha". The song consists of several
looped staccato violin tracks and some guitar arrengements that make up an
eclectic atmosphere where Andrew often improvises with his violin in live
performances.
Tabbed by Pelusteriano
Contact at my UG profile
Lyrics by Andrew Bird
Music by Andrew Bird, Martin Dosh & Chris Morrisey
Key of A minor
===============================================================================
CHORDS (low to high, in order of appereance)
Am X02210 C/G 33201X Fmaj7 X3321X E 022100
Note: Play in "reggae style", first with a muted down-stroke,
then play the chord using an up-stroke:
|-X-Am-X-Am-X-C-X-C-|-X-Fmaj7-X-Fmaj7-X-E-X-E-|
INTRO
let ring
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
|| -----5-7-----7-8-|-----5-7--(5)h7p5--- ||
|| -----------5-----|---6--------------6- ||
||O---5-----5-------|-4------------------O||
||O-7---------------|--------------------O||
|| -----------------|-------------------- ||
|| -----------------|-------------------- ||
VERSE I
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
He's keeping busy, yeah, he's bleeding stones
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
With his machinations and his palindromes
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
It was anything but hear the voice
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
Anything but hear the voice
Am C/G
It was anything but hear the voice
Fmaj7 E Am C/G Fmaj7 E
That says that we're all basically alone
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
VERSE II
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
Poor Professor Pynchon had only good intentions
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
When he put his Bunsen burners all away
Am C/G Fmaj7
And turning to a playground in a Petri dish
E Am
Where single cells would swing their fists
C/G Fmaj7 E
At anything that looks like easy prey
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
In this nature show that rages every day
Am C/G Fmaj7 E (strum louder)
It was then he heard his intuition say
Am
We were all basically alone
CHORUS
C/G Fmaj E
And despite what all his studies had shown
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
That what's mistaken for closeness is just a case for mitosis
Am C/G Fmaj7 E Am C/G Fmaj7 E
And why---- do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
Tell me doctor can you quantify?
Am C/G Fmaj7 E (strum louder)
He just wants to know the reason, the reason why
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
VERSE III
Am C/G
Why do they congregate in groups of four
Fmaj7 E Am
Scatter like a billion spores
C/G Fmaj7 E
And let the wind just carry them away?
Am C/G Fmaj7
How can kids be so mean?
E Am
Our famous doctor tried to glean
C/G Fmaj7 E
As he went home at the end of the day
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
In this nature show that rages every day
Am C/G Fmaj7 E (strum louder)
It was then he heard his intuition say
Am
We were all basically alone
CHORUS
C/G Fmaj7 E
Despite what all his studies had shown
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
That what's mistaken for closeness is just a case of mitosis
Am C/G Fmaj7 E
Sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis
Am C/G Fmaj7 E Am C/G Fmaj7 E
And why---- do some show no mercy while others are painfully shy?
Am C/G Fmaj7
Well, tell me doctor, can you quantify?
E (strum louder)
The reason why
Am C/G Fmaj7 E ... end on Am
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