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Another Travellin Song Tab

by Bright Eyes


This is my first tab. It's not in the same key as the song but.... oh well.




Intro - G


well I’m changing all my strings
                                    
I’m gonna write another travellin song
   
about all the billion highways
                                
and the cities at the break of dawn 

well I guess the best that I can do now
                                   
is pretend that I’ve done nothing wrong
 
and dream about a train that’s gonna
                          
take me back where I belong 

now the ocean speaks and spits 
                               
and I can hear it from the interstate 
                       
and I’m screaming at my brother
                            
on the cell phone, he is far away 

and I’m sayin’ nothing in the past
                               
or future ever will feel like today 

until we’re parkin in an alley,
                         
just hopin that our shit is safe
 
                         
so I go back and forth forever
                            
all my thoughts, they come in pairs
                                     
well I will I won’t I doubt I don’t I’m not surprised
                                
But I never feel quite prepared (woo!)

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DEAD STRUMMING -- 

Now I’m hunched over a typewriter
                                    
I guess you’d call that paintin’ in a cave

And there’s a word I can’t remember
                        
and a feeling I can not escape 

And now my ashtray’s overflowin
                                
I’m still starin at a clean white page


 
And morning’s at my window 
                              
and she is sending me to bed again
 
Well I dreamed the dark on the horizon,
                                    
I dreamed a desert where the dead layed down
 
I dreamed a prostituted child
                                
touching an old man in a fast food crown
 
Oh Yeah I dreamt a ship was sinkin’, 
                                
there was people screamin’ all around 

And I awoke to my alarm clock,
                                  
it was a pop song, it was playin’ loud


 
                                
So I will find my fears and face them
                          
Or I will cower like a dog 
                                 
I will kick and scream or kneel and plead
                                              
I will fight like hell to hide that I’m giving up

Outro-