The Shins é um grupo de indie rock formado pelo cantor e guitarrista James Russell Mercer, pelo tecladista e guitarrista Martin Crandall, pelo baixista Dave Hernandez, e pelo baterista Jesse Sandoval.
A banda começou em 1997 na cidade de Albuquerque, Novo México como um projeto paralelo de Mercer e Neal Langford, que tocavam em um conjunto chamado Flake. Em 1999, o Flake (que nesse momento já se chamava Flake Music) acabou e todos os seus membros foram para os Shins (nome de uma família fictícia de The Music Man
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
UPDATE 2014: Missing chords filled in thanks to contributions from users. Cheers, all.
I figured it out on an acoustic guitar and keyed it to match the CD. I did it with a on the first fret to play the whole thing using simpler open chords. For beginners, this the chord name used ONLY represents the chord shape. So when you play a G with capo, actually playing Ab/G#, C=C#, etc.
The open chords I used:
G = 320001 C = x32010 F = 113211 (or xx3211 if you don't want to barre it) Em= 022000 Am= x02210 D = x00232 Bb= x13331
Any help with the parts I missed or if you'd just like to share how lame I am for them can be sent to [email protected]
Cheers
CAPO FIRST FRET
INTRO
GCF GEmF GEmAm BbD
GCF Hurled to the center of the earth again
GEm The place where it?s hot love
FG You know it hurts to breathe in
GEmAm And the watershed you balance on is begging it
BbD Well did he ever know? Will he ever know?
GCF The trees in the moonshine are a dark lattice
GEmFG So you catalogue every angle you notice
GEmAm In a vacuum you are charged to record this
BbDC So you won?t make it easy on me
CHORUS:
CGF I can?t go into this no more
GC It puts too many thorns on my mind
DG And the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor
FGFGC We?ve pissed in far too ma-ny Sprites
D And they?re all standing up for their rights
GCF GEmF
GCF Born on a desert floor, you?ve the deepest thirst
GEmFG And you came to my sweet shore to indulge it
GEmAm With the wan and drilling eyes of an orphan
BbD But there was not enough, there is not enough
GCF Out of a gunnysack fall red rabbits
GEmFG Into a crucible to be rendered an emulsion
GEmAm And we can?t allow a chance they?d restore themselves
BbDC So we can?t make it easy on you
CHORUS #2
CGF Undaunted, you bathe in hollow cries
GC The boys with swollen sunburnt eyes
DG A reward for letting nothing under their skin
FGFGC So help me I don?t know, I might
DBbG Just give the ole Dark Side a try
BRIDGE
CD Don?t cast your willing eyes on the shore
BbG ?til we even the score
CD I still owe you for he hole in the floor
BbG And the ghost in the hall
CD Who decides who paddles over the falls?
D? Yeah, who makes the call? Who makes the call?
(INSTRUMENTAL OVER VERSE PROGRESSION x2)
GCF GEmF GEmAm BbD
GCF GEmF GEmAm D
CHORUS #3
CGF I know there?s an eventual
GC Release from every scale of crime
DG But the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor
FGFGFGFG We?ve pissed on far too ma-ny good in-ten-tions