I was just trying to figure out this amazing song and I figure I'd contribute my
so others can enjoy.
The strumming is done by picking down on a bass note then strumming up on the bottom
then picking down on the next bass note and then up again on the bottom strings.
For the F - F7 parts I use an open chord and switch between:
1--- 0---|
1--- 1---|
-2-- -2--|
--3- --3-|
---- ----|
---- ----|
I don't think the other chords matter.
Intro
I know a girl with cuts on her legs.
I think that she hates the way she was made,
but we never spoke of why they were there,
I just squeezed them and kissed them
‘til we both felt a bit better.
And now I’ve returned to the town where she dwells;
that small lonely cabin her grandfather built,
I suppose that’s where she’s imprisoned herself,
to write all those words she’s too scared to tell –
those sad, short stories of a girl curled up in her shell.
Night and day she tends to the bar.
She pours the drinks, they pour out their hearts.
All that sorrow and al-co-hol
weighs hard on her thoughts,
so she writes them down….
she loves them all.
And when we’d make love
she’d stare in my eyes….
I swore we had met a thousand times.
Thousands of lives, thousands of nights….
She’d written within a thousand lines.
(pause)
Night and day she tends to her bar.
She pours me a drink for my thirsty heart.
All my sorrow’s in al-co-hol…
she holds up the cup to my parched lips
for a kiss.