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The World Is Alive Tab

by Ezra Furman And The Harpoons


It's a simple song, so I'll let you work out the strumming. The timings aren't 
100% accurate, I've mostly timed the chords by the vocal line. 

Ezra plays the chords as follows, in standard tuning:
:   320033
: 332010 (though don't stress the low G too much)
:  022000
: x20033
: x00232 (I know you probably just think of this as a D chord, but technically it's D/A)

  x 4
                      
There is life on this planet
                        
And I know because I've seen it
                                     
It is waiting in the slimiest of Saturday nights
                        
There's a white haunted moon
                    
Hanging over the lagoon
                                
It was made for a moment just such as this
                                       
There is love in the eyes of the birds and bees
                                
There are plastic bags in suburban trees
                    
Keep your eyes open all the time
                                 
And I think you'll find there's no place to hide
                
And the world is alive

(Between the verses, strum a few times with all the strings muted with your left hand)

                        
There are sailors on the ocean
                        
Little kids with crazy notions
                                    
And their heads are gonna spin like a tornado
                      
There's a Bible by the TV
                          
And the curtains blowing freely
                                 
In this hotel room make my heart do flips
\                                    C/ 
There's a bush that burns but is not consumed
                                  
There's a glass of milk in an empty room
                                  
There's a song at the heart of it all
                            
And we all try hard just to write it down
                      
But you can't write it down

  x4
End on G