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Mx Missles Tab

by Andrew Bird


Seen Andrew play F#7 like this for MX Missles:
       
E--0--|  
B--2--|  
G--3--|  
D--4--| 
A-----|  
E-----|  

And plays most bar chords on those four high strings.  The album version has the capo
way up but all live versions are without.


Intro:
                            


                            
those that will judge will say you're aloof  
                                                   
but you know the truth is a seed you know what you need  
                    
is a conflagration  
                                  
cause when I see your blood and the bits of your broken tooth  
                                                        
it gives me the proof that I need it's the proof that you bleed  
                                                                 
and it's a revelation / yeah it's a revelation / it's a revelation 

                             
I thought you were a life-sized paper doll 
                                 
propped up in the hardware store  
                          
propped up on the front lawn watching the parade  
                               
of those legionnaires with two by fours  
                                 
As they're marching off to wars  
                                   
Yeah they're marching off to wars 

                              
I didn't know what you were made of  
                                 
color of your blood what you're afraid of  
                           
are you made of calcium or are you carbon based 
                                     
cause if you're made of calcium I'll have to take a taste  
                                      
'Cause listen, calcium is deadly, but tender to the tooth  
                                             
but it's one sure-fire way to know if you're mx-missile proof  
                                   
oh no, or if you're just aloof
 
                                    
and you were in the ground in late November  
                                
though the leaves and earth were damp  
                                       
did you think they would remember  
                    
how you almost made state champ  
                                              
and when you're running for the game against Alfonsus  
                                               
and you fell up on the ground and chipped your tooth  
                          
listen, that might really have surprised us 
                                                                 
to learn that maybe you weren't really mx-missiles proof

                                     
whoa, I thought you were a life-sized paper doll  
                                            
and you're propped up in the hardware store  
                                       
you were propped up on the front lawn watching the parade  
                                                     
of those legionnaires with two by fours 
                                 
as they're marching off to wars   
                                            
yeah they're marching off to wars    
                          
Ohh they're marchinnnnnggg