Hello.... I took about 2 hours and improved the chords to this song. Everything is
more thorough, and all the chord changed are exact, I just finished listening to the song.
this helps a little better.
Credit to Yoshima for tabbing the original version of this, with some of his
still intact.
Happy jamming =) -LM
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Bright Eyes – “Act of Contrition”
The chords used in this song are relative to a capo on the 1st fret:
........../........................
e|----0-------0-------0-------1-------3------|
B|----1-------1-------1-------1-------3------|
G|----0-------0-------2-------2-------0------|
D|----2-------0-------2-------3-------0------|
A|----3-------2-------0-------0-------2------|
E|----x-------x-------x-------x-------3------|
The following pattern is played 4 times for the intro and also forms the main theme of
song; the bass notes being plucked with the thumb and the highest four strings are strummed;
.............../..............................
e|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------0-0-0------------------|
B|-------1-1-1------1-1-1------1-1-1------------------| INTRO:
G|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------2-2-2------------------| <--- 4x
D|-------2-2-2------0-0-0------2-2-2--3p2h3p2h3p2-----| <--- note that
A|---3----------2----------0--------------------------| 3p2h3p2h3p2
E|----------------------------------------------------| is copied
throughout the
WHOLE song.
This main theme is the repeated through the verse...
/
The air was all dust
3p2h3p2h3p2 / 3p2h3p2h3p2
A night so untamed
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
/
The ground opened up and swallowed, all of the rain
3p2h3p2h3p2 /
And it swallowed you too...
3p2h3p2h3p2 / 3p2h3p2h3p2
Into distance unknown
/ (let ring)
As they sat down for dinner they waited for you to get home
Yeah, they set a...place for you.
/ (let ring)
So don't...be....lieve everything that you read, in that...diary of
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
yours.
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
And this... ner – vous - ness,
3p2h3p2h3p2 / 3p2h3p2h3p2
It isn't... all your fault
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
It's just these sha - king hands won't do
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
what I want them ... to.
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
And I've tried to guess what it,
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
Is you thought about
/ (let ring)
That act of contrition that rolled off our tongues as you wept.
What are you...crying for?
/ (let ring)
Just dust...my heart and you will find
There are no fingers printed there
/ (let ring)
Just the un...touched...place that lies inside
/
3p2h3p2h3p2
Of every...lonely boy...tonight.
***If you have one, start randomly tapping a type-writer until end***
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
C Csus2/B Am 3 – 2 - 0 <--- notice this change on the D string.
.............../.............................
e|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------0-0-0-----------1------|
B|-------1-1-1------1-1-1------1-1-1-----------1------|
G|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------2-2-2-----------2------|
D|-------2-2-2------0-0-0------2-2-2--3--2--0--3------|
A|---3----------2----------0-------------------0------|
E|---------------------------------------------x------|
F (4 bars)
G (3 bars, and on the offbeat before the 4th bar: “And all.....”, so that you
on “all” with the G chord, signifying that “all” is the 4th bar
/ (let ring)
And all this o... pen ...air has caused me to choke
/
3p2h3p2h3p2
On your...new-found hope...for me.
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2
/ 3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2.
Let that last note ring out and that’s it.
THE END.