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Farrar Straus And Giroux Tab

by Destroyer


Destroyer is Dan Bejar, one of the New Pornographers (usually referred to as "indie
supergroup New Pornographers" and then followed by a mention of Neko Case). There aren't
any chords/tabs for Destroyer songs online, which is just ridiculous; the man can write
rock songs (or, in the case of "Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Sea of Tears)," melancholy
pop/country songs) like nobody's business, and who doesn't like to rock out, now and
again, in the grand indie style? Having said that, I hope I've been rocking (or popping)
appropriately to this song. 




			
It was back amongst the living
		
Your smile was giving 
	
Me a thrill
		
Enough to come so close
		
To closing the deal

The steal of the century

A century stolen from our hearts 
		
To a house on the hill


			
But if that is what it takes
			
If that is what it takes
				----
If that is what it takes
	
To be a stone


			
A stone's throw from your throne
		
No man has ever hung 
			    
From the rafters of a second home
		
No man has ever hung
			
From the rafters of a second home






	
It's true 
	   
I needed you more
		
Back when I was poor
				
The wealthy dowager, the patroness

She guessed it

The answer wasn't yes

But her maxims were fine
			
The ethos that flew about her mind
	
Like swallows in search
		
Of a burnt-down bell tower church
	

			
But if that is what it takes
			
If that is what it takes 
				----
If that is what it takes
	
To be a stone


			
A stone's throw from your throne
		
No man has ever hung
				
At the temporary age of twenty-four
				
(With) both feet on the floor
					
Listening to the bona fide stasis of sound

The eaves dripping
				
Yesterday's ill-timed August rain
						
If there is such a thing as ill-timed August rain 





--- (x2)