Mountain Spines -
Tuning: Standard
The tab is absolutely correct, but a couple of the lyrics are sketchy. Let me know if
you know something.
Intro/VERSE:
F, D,
e|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|
G|---2----2-2----2----2-2----2----| x4
D|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|
E|-1---1-1---1-2---2-2---2-1---1-1|
F, Em, Am, G,
e|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---2----2-2----0----0-0----5----|5-5----5-----5-5-5p4-4----4-4----|
D|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|-1---1-1---1-0---0-0---0-5---5-5|----5-3--3-3-----3-----3-3-------|
mountains of our spines...
In between verses Marika plays the D string open, but stops as soon as the next verse begins:
e|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|
G|---2----2-2----2----2-2----2----| x4
D|---0----0-0----0----0-0----0----|
A|--------------------------------|
E|-1---1-1---1-2---2-2---2-1---1-1|
The pre-chorus and chorus are finger picked/strummed with standard open chords. Listen
to the track to get the pattern down.
VERSE:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/marika_hackman/mountain_spines_tab.html ]
There's a place in our minds, where the sun ceases to shine,
F, D, F, D,
and the mountains of our spines are cast in shadows
F, Em, Am, G,
......................
F, D, F, D,
There's a fortress in the sea and a lake that beads with the greed,
F D, F, D,
of a million hundred eyes, I've arrived now, in the end
F, Em, Am, G
PRE CHORUS:
I'm not allowed to be scared anymore
Am, C, G,
but I am afraid of your flood
Am, D, Em,
CHORUS:
let me hold back the tears I'm sitting on
D C G
I will be playing with your blood
Am D Em
In the end, In the end,
F, D,
VERSE 2
There's a mistress in our bed, with a thousand pounds on her head
on the poster on the wall above the light switch
the sheets are damp and old and her skin is freckled with mold
but the queue outside the door stretches right out
to the sea
PRE CHORUS:
I'm not allowed to be scared anymore,
but I am afraid of your flood
CHORUS
Let me hold back the tears I'm sitting on
I will be playing with your blood
In the end, in the end.
