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Artist: The New Pornographers
Album: Brill Bruisers
Song: Backstairs
tabber: John Baer (jcbaer@vt.edu)
tabbed on 09/02/2014
(INTRO VERSE: ELO voice and snyths): G#m
B Bbm
"Taking the backstairs, taking the back stairs,
G# G#, G#m
taking the back stairs, taking the back stairs"
B Bbm
"Taking the backstairs, taking the back stairs,
G#
taking the back stairs, taking the back stairs"
(VERSE:)
G# G#m
Before I knew, to chose the music of celebrity
B Bbm G# C#
I sang backups on the backstairs, the backstairs,
G#
the backstairs (taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs)
G# G#m
I wore out grooves, sneaking around the servants quarters, oh
B Bbm G#
So I knew my way around the backstairs
(CHORUS:)
B F# G#
There is another west, you'll find out, it's nearly thunderous
B F# G#
There is another west, much wilder, you feel it under us
B F# C#
And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive...
(BREAK 1): G#, G#m, B, Bbm, G#
(VERSE:)
G# G#m
I move so slow, I didn't know that I was backing out
B Bbm G#
It was getting backed out on the backstairs
C# G#
The backstairs, the backstairs
(BREAK 2): B, G#, B, G#...
(BRIDGE:)
B (F#) G#
And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won
B (F#) G#
And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won
C#m (F#) G# G#
And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won.......(buildup to a pause)
(CHORUS:)
B F# G#
There is another west, you'll find out, it's nearly thunderous
B F# G#
There is another west, much wilder, you feel it under us
B F# C#
And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive...
B F# C#
And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive...
(OUTRO:)
G# G#m
Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs
B Bbm G#
(And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and no more/
taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs,
G#m G#
Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs
B Bbm G#
(And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and no more/
taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs,
G# G#m
Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs
B Bbm G#
(I knew my way around the backstairs)
(....fade out)
Cheers, and Buy Mass Romantic, Electric Version, Twin Cinema,
Challengers, Together, and BRILL BRUISERS!
www.thenewpornographers.com
John Baer