Hey, all. This is my first tab, but I'm a music student who plays a lot of stuff by ear,
I think it'll be decent. -- I was really frustrated to find that NO ONE had posted any
or chords of this song, so I sat down and did it myself. It's not exact, but it'll get
really, really close.
Enjoy!
v = the next note is lower
^ = the next note is higher
~ = trill
m = minor
M = major
6 = first inversion; third of the chord in the bass
6/4 = second inversion; fifth of the chord in the bass
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Ani Difranco - Studying Stones
INTRO:
Melody: v ^ v ^
Chords: // /4 //
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Melody: v ^ v ^ V V ~~
Chords: cm6 // GM64 // FM //
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cm -- BbM -- AbM
AbM -- BbM -- cm(add9)
(x 2)
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VERSES:
I am out here studying stones
Trying to learn to be less alive
Using all of my will
To keep very still
(add9)
Still even on the inside
I've cut all of the pertinent wires
So my eyes can't make that connection
I am holding my breath
I am feigning my death
(add9)
When I'm looking in your direction
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'Course numb is an old hat
Old as my oldest memories
See that one's my mother
And that one's my father
(add9)
And that one in the hat, that's me
It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon
?
When I got out on the open road
?
But any more pent up emotion
? (add9)
And I think I'm gonna explode
~~~
(add9)
There's never been an endeavor so strange
As trying to slow the blood in my veins
To keep my face blank
As a stone that just sank
(add9)
Until not a ripple remains
(add9)
I am high above the tree line
Sitting cross legged on the ground
When all of the forbidden fruit
has fallen and rotted
(add9)
That's when I'm gonna come down
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'Course numb is an old hat
Old as my oldest memories
See that one's my mother
And that one's my father
(add9)
And that one in the hat, that's me
It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon
?
When I got out on the open road
?
But any more pent up emotion
? (add9)
And I think I'm gonna explode
END ON:
(add9)
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