Jim Lockey The Solemn Sun
Waitress
Chords by Neil Wicker
standard tuning (whole step down to play with recording)/no capo
C - 032010
Cmaj7 - 020010
Fmaj7 - 003210
G - 320010
F - 033211 (or 133211)
Am - 002210
Riff - (this is the basic pattern for the intro and between verse parts, depending
on how you want to play the song you might be better picking out more notes
instead of strumming)
C Fmaj7
e|-------------------------------------------|
B|-----1----1--1--1---1----1--1------1--1----|
G|-----0----0--0--0---0----0--0------2--2----|
D|-----2----2--2--2---0h2--2--2---3--3--3----|
A|--3--3----3--3--3---3----3--3------0--0----|
E|-------------------------------------------|
v ^ v ^ v v ^ v ^
C G
e|-------------------------------------------|
B|-----1----1--1--1---1----1--1------1--1----|
G|-----0----0--0--0---0----0--0------0--0----|
D|-----2----2--2--2---0h2--2--2------0--0----|
A|--3--3----3--3--3---3----3--3------2--2----|
E|--------------------------------3--3--3----|
v ^ v ^ v v ^ v ^
intro: riff x2
C Cmaj7
Waitress has a look upon her face that says she’s torn
C Cmaj7
She smokes cheap menthol cigarettes, wears scars of Forgone wars
Fmaj7 G C
Away cross the enemy lines in this passenger seat.
Riff x1
F G Am
She’ll make it home in time to see you rise
F G C
She will just selfishly sit there and wait for you to save her life
e|--------------|
B|--------------|
G|--------------|
D|--------------|
A|--------0--1--|
E|--1--3--------|
Riff x1
C Cmaj7
She holds her steering wheel and drives us round this place
C Cmaj7
I know that she’s not saying much cause silence makes brave as we,
Fmaj7 G C
Listen to radio news about how England’s lost its faith
Riff x1
C Cmaj7
She’ll spend her days avoiding preachers on the street she’s that
C Cmaj7
Unholy radical, nameless body breached in this,
Fmaj7 G C
Unfriendly action of avoiding things that she don’t wanna know
riff x1
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/jim_lockey_the_solemn_sun/waitress_crd.html ]
F G Am
She’ll make it home in time to see you rise
F G C
She will just selfishly sit there and wait for you to save her life
riff x1
F G Am
Your eyes are dead, you’re body just divides home, so cold
Cmaj7 F G C
And you wait, you’re so much colder and this is the evening we’ve spent
F G C
And I’ll never know what she meant
F G C Cmaj7 Am F
But bodies of water and old cold beds and this is the evening
riff x2
C Cmaj7
She’ll spend her days avoiding preachers on the street she’s that
C Cmaj7
Unholy radical, nameless body breached in this,
Fmaj7 G C
Unfriendly action of avoiding things that she don’t wanna know
Riff x2
Solo part:
e|--------------|--------------|------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------|--------------|------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------|--------------|--------------12--------------12----------------|
D|--------------|--------5--8--|--11--14--11------11--14--11------11--14--11--9-|
A|--------0--1--|3s5--8--------|------------------------------------------------|
E|--1--3--------|--------------|------------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------|--------------|--------------|
B|----------------------------------|--------------|--------------|
G|--------5s--9---------------------|--------------|--------------|
D|--5--8---------12--9--5--8--5-----|--------------|--------------|
A|-------------------------------7--|--------0--1--|--------0--1--|
E|----------------------------------|--1--3--------|--1--3--------|
F G Am
She’ll make it home in time to see you rise
F G C
She will just selfishly sit there and wait for you to save her life
F G Am
Your eyes are dead, you’re body just divides home, so cold
Cmaj7 F G C
And you wait, you’re so much colder and this is the evening we’ve spent
F G C
And I’ll never know what she meant
F G C Cmaj7 Am F
But bodies of water and old cold beds and this is the evening
riff x2
