Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Album: Plans
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Song List:
1. Marching Bands Of Manhattan
2. Soul Meets Body
3. Summer Skin
4. Different Names For The Same Thing
5. I Will Follow You Into The Dark
6. Your Heart Is An Empty Room
7. Someday You Will Be Loved
8. Crooked Teeth
9. What Sarah Said
10. Brothers On A Hotel Bed
11. Stable Song
Marching Bands Of Manhattan
C G
If I could open my arms
D F
And span the length of the isle of Manhattan,
C G
I'd bring it to where you are
D F
Making a lake of the East River and Hudson
C G
If I could open my mouth
D F
Wide enough for a marching band to march out
C G
They would make your name sing
D F
And bend through alleys and bounce off all the buildings.
F Am C D (x2)
C G
I wish we could open our eyes
D F
To see in all directions at the same time
C G
Oh what a beautiful view
D F
If you were never aware of what was around you
C G
And it is true what you said
D F
That I live like a hermit in my own head
C G
But when the sun shines again
D F
I'll pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in.
Chorus (x4)
F Am
Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
C D
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
F Am
But while you debate half empty or half full
C
It slowly rises, your love is gonna drown
F Am C D
Your love is gonna drown [4x]
Your love is gonna...
C (let note ring)
Soul Meets Body
Intro: Dm C (x2)
Dm C
I want to live where soul meets body
Dm F
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
Dm F
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
C Dm
And feel, feel what its like to be new
F
Cause in my head there’s a greyhound station
Dm F
Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations
Dm F
So they may have a chance of finding a place
C
where they’re far more suited than here
Dm F C (x4)
Dm F
And I cannot guess what we'll discover
Dm F
When we turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels
Dm F
But I know our filthy hands can wash one another’s
C
And not one speck will remain
Dm F C
And I do believe it’s true
Dm F C
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
Dm F
But if the silence takes you
C Dm F C
Then I hope it takes me too
Dm F C
So brown eyes I hold you near
Dm F C
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
Dm F C Dm F C
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Dm F Dm
Where soul meets body
Dm
Where soul meets body
Dm
Where soul meets body
Dm F C
And I do believe it’s true
Dm F C
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
Dm F
But if the silence takes you
C Dm F C
Then I hope it takes me too
Dm F C
So brown eyes I hold you near
Dm F C
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
Dm F C
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Dm
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Dm
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Dm
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Summer Skin
Intro: C Bb Dm C Bb Dm C Bb Dm C Bb Dm C Bb
Dm C Bb
Squeaky swings and tall grass
Dm C Bb
The longest shadows ever cast
Dm C Bb
The water's warm and children swim
Dm C Bb
And we frolicked about in our summer skin
Dm C Bb
I don't recall a single care
Dm C Bb
Just greenery and humid air
Dm C Bb
Then Labor day came and went
Dm C Bb
And we shed what was left of our summer skin
Dm C Bb F C Bb (x2)
Dm C Bb
On the night you left I came over
Dm C Bb
And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders
Dm C Bb
Our brand new coats so flushed and pink
Dm C Bb
And I knew your heart I couldn't win
Dm C Bb
Cause the seasons change was a conduit
Dm C Bb
And we left our love in our summer skin
Dm C Bb F C Bb (let ring)
Different Names For The Same Thing"
D Bb G D
D Bb G D
Alone on a train aimless in wonder
D Bb G D
An outdated map crumbled in my pocket
D Bb G D
But I didn't care where I was going
Bm Bb G D
'Cause they're all different names for the same place.
D Bb G D
The coast disappeared when the sea drowned the sun
D B G D
And I knew no words to share with anyone
D Bb G D
The boundaries of language I quietly cursed
Bm F G D
And all the different names for the same things
Bm F# G D
D (for what seems like an eternity)
Bm F G D
There are different names for the same things
There are different names for the same things...
B F# G A (x3)
B F# G D (x3)
B F# G A
B F# G D
"I Will Follow You Into The Dark"
Intro: Dm F Bb F F/E Dm F C Dm F A7 Dm C Bb Dm F
F Dm
Love of mine some day you will die
Bb
But I'll be close behind
F C
I'll follow you into the dark
F Dm
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Bb
Just our hands clasped so tight
F C
Waiting for the hint of a spark
Dm F
If Heaven and Hell decide
Bb F F/E
That they both are satisfied
Dm F C
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
Dm F
If there's no one beside you
A7 Dm C
When your soul embarks
Bb Bbm F
Then I'll follow you into the dark
F Dm
In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
Bb F C
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
Bb Dm
And I held my tongue as she told me
Bb
"Son fear is the heart of love"
F C
So I never went back
Dm F
If Heaven and Hell decide
Bb F F/E
That they both are satisfied
Dm F C
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
Dm F
If there's no one beside you
A7 Dm C
When your soul embarks
Bb Bbm F
Then I'll follow you into the dark
F Dm
You and me have seen everything to see
Bb
From Bangkok to Calgary
F C F
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
Dm
The time for sleep is now
Bb
It's nothing to cry about
F C
Cause we'll hold each other soon
Dm Bb
The blackest of rooms
Dm F
If Heaven and Hell decide
Bb F F/E
That they both are satisfied
Dm F C
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
Dm F
If there's no one beside you
A7 Dm C
When your soul embarks
Bb Bbm F
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Bb Bbm F (let ring)
Then I'll follow you into the dark
"Your Heart Is An Empty Room"
Intro: C
C Em Am Em F
Burn it down till the embers smoke on the ground
C Em Am Em F
And start new when your heart is an empty room
Am Em F
With walls of the deepest blue
C
C Em Am Em F
Home's face: how it ages when you're away
C Em Am Em F
Spring blooms and you find the love that's true
Am Em F
But you don't know what now to do
Am Em F
Cause the chase is all you know
Am Em F
And she stopped running months ago
C
F C
And all you see
F A
Is where else you could be
Em F
When you're at home
F C
Out on the street
F A
Are so many possibilities
E F
To not be alone
A Em F (x4)
Em
C Em A Em F
The flames and smoke climbed out of every window
C Em A Em F
And disappeared with everything that you held dear
Am Em F Am Em F
And you shed not a single tear for the things that you didn't need
Am Em F
'Cause you knew you were finally free
C
F C F Am Em F
'Cause all you see is where else you could be when you're at home
C
F C F Am Em F
Out on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone
C
F C F Am
And all you see is where else you could be
Em F
When you're at home
C
F C F Em F
There on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/death_cab_for_cutie/plans_crd.html ]
C (let ring)
"Someday You Will Be Loved"
Intro: Gm
Gm Bb
I once knew a girl
D# Gm
In the years of my youth
Gm Bb
With eyes like the summer
C
All beauty and truth
Gm Bb
In the morning I fled
D# Gm
Left a note and it read
Gm Dm Gm
Someday you will be loved.
Gm Bb D# Gm
I cannot pretend that I felt any regret
Gm Bb C
Cause each broken heart will eventually mend
Gm Bb D# Gm
As the blood runs red down the needle and thread
Gm Dm Gm
Someday you will be loved
Gm Bb
You'll be loved you'll be loved
D# Gm
Like you never have known
Gm Bb
The memories of me
C
Will seem more like bad dreams
Gm Bb
Just a series of blurs
D#
Like I never occurred
Gm D# Gm
Someday you will be loved
Bb D# Gm Bb C Gm
Gm Bb D# Gm
You may feel alone when you're falling asleep
Gm Bb C
And everytime tears roll down your cheeks
Gm Bb D# Gm
But I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meet
Gm Dm Gm
Someday you will be loved
Gm Bb
You'll be loved you'll be loved
D# Gm
Like you never have known
Gm Bb
The memories of me
C
Will seem more like bad dreams
Gm Bb
Just a series of blurs
D#
Like I never occurred
Gm D# Gm
Someday you will be loved
F#5 F E5 D#
Gm Bb
You'll be loved you'll be loved
D# Gm
Like you never have known
Gm Bb
The memories of me
C
Will seem more like bad dreams
Gm Bb
Just a series of blurs
D#
Like I never occurred
Gm D# Gm
Someday you will be loved
Gm D# Gm (let ring)
Someday you will be loved
"Crooked Teeth"
Capo on 1st Fret
F Bb C# G# F Bb C# G#
It was one hundred degrees, as we sat beneath a willow tree,
F Bb C# G# F Bb C# G#
Who's tears didn't care, they just hung in the air, and refused to fall, to fall.
F Bb C# G#
And I knew I'd made a horrible call,
F Bb C# G#
And now the state line felt like the Berlin wall,
F Bb C
And there was no doubt about which side I was on.
F Bb C# G#
hmmm....
F5 Em D# C
Cause I built you a home in my heart,
F5 Em D# Bb
With rotten wood, it decayed from the start.
C# G# D#
Cause you can't find nothing at all,
C# G# D#
If there was nothing there all along.
C# G# D#
No you can't find nothing at all,
C# G# D#
If there was nothing there all along.
F Bb C# G# (x2)
F Bb C# G#
I braved treacherous streets,
F Bb C# G#
And kids strung out on homemade speed.
F Bb C# G#
And we shared a bed in which I could not sleep,
F Bb C# G#
At all, woo, hoo, woo, hooOoOo.
F Bb C# G#
Cause at night the sun in retreat,
F Bb C# G#
Made the skyline look like crooked teeth,
F Bb C# G# F Bb C# G#
In the mouth of a man who was devouring, us both.
F5 Em D# C
You're so cute when you're slurring your speech,
F5 Em Bb
But they're closing the bar and they want us to leave.
C# G# D#
And you can't find nothing at all,
C# G# D#
If there was nothing there all along.
C# G# D#
No you can't find nothing at all,
C# G# D#
If there was nothing there all along.
Bb C
I'm a war, of head versus heart,
F Bb
And it's always this way.
Bb C
My head is weak, my heart always speaks,
F Bb
Before I know what it will say.
C# G D# (x4)
C# G# D#
And you can't find nothing at all,
C# G# D#
If there was nothing there all along.
C# G# D#
No you can't find nothing at all,
C# G# D#
If there was nothing there all along.
C# G# D#
And you can't find nothing at all,
C# G# D#
If there was nothing there all along.
C# G# D#
There were churches, theme parks and malls,
C# G# D#
But there was nothing there all along.
"What Sarah Said"
F G Am E F G Am E F G A E F G Am E
F G Am E
And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time
F G Am E
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409
F G Am E
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today
F G Am E
As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me
F G Am E
Away from me
F G Am E
F G Am E
Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye
F G Am E
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds
F G Am E
But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
F G Am E
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself
D C Am E
'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
D F A E
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
D C A E
And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads
D F A F C
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die"
F C F G C
F G C E F
So who's going to watch you die?..
"Brothers On A Hotel Bed"
Intro: G# Cm D# G# G# Cm D# G#
G# Cm D# G# G# Cm D# G#
Bb B C Bb G#
G# Cm D# G# G# Cm D# G#
G# Cm D# G#
You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be
G# Cm D# G#
No longer easy on the eyes but these wrinkles masterfully disguise
Bb G# Cm
The youthful boy below who turned your way and saw
D# G#
Something he was not looking for: both a beginning and an end
G# Cm D# G#
But now he lives inside someone he does not recognize
Bb G
When he catches his reflection on accident
G# Cm D# G#
G# Cm
On the back of a motor bike
D# G#
With your arms outstretched trying to take flight
Leaving everything behind
G# Cm D# G#
But even at our swiftest speed we couldn't break from the concrete
Bb
In the city where we still reside.
G# Cm D# G#
And I have learned that even landlocked lovers yearn for the sea like navy men
G# Cm D# G#
Cause now we say goodnight from our own separate sides
Bb D#
Like brothers on a hotel bed
D#
Like brothers on a hotel bed
D#
Like brothers on a hotel bed
D# Bb
Like brothers on a hotel bed
G# Cm D# G#
G# Cm D# G#
G# Cm D# G#
You may tire of me as our December sun is setting because I'm not who I used to be
"Stable Song"
Intro: G C D G C Em G F#m E C G F E G
G C Am
Time for the final bout
G C Am
Rows of deserted houses
G F E C G
All our stable mates highway bound
G C Am
Give us our measly sum
G C Am G F
Getting the air inside my lungs is heavenly
E C G F E C D E C D E
Starting out with nothing but crippling doubt
C D Em B C G
We'll rest easy justified
C Am C C Am
Suffered a swift defeat, i'll endure countless repeats
G F E C
The gift of memory is an awful curse
F E C D C G A
With age it just gets much worse, but i won't mind
D C G A
I won't mind
D C G A
I won't mind
D C G C Am G
I won't mind
Chord Gallery
*All of these songs are in standard tuning.
Chord: EADGBE
A: x02220
A7:x02020
B: x24442
Bb:013331
C: 032010 or 035553
Cm:035543
C#:046664
D: x00232 or x57775
Dm: x00231 or x57765
D#: 068886
E: 022100
Em: 022000
F: 133411 or 103211
F5: 133xx1
F#: 244322
F#m: 244222
G: 320003 or 320033 or 355433
Gm: 355333
G#: 466544
