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by Emily Haines And The Soft Skeleton


Doctor Blind
Album: Knives Don't Have Your Back
(2006)


Capo 3
|----------------------------------|---------------------------------0--|
|--0------------------------------.|--0------------------------------0--|
|----0-------0-------2-------2-----|----0-------0-------2------------0--| "Lonesome lows..."
|------2---4---0---1---4---1---4---|------2---4---0---1---4----------2--|
|---------------------------------.|--------------------------3--2-0-2--|
|----------------------------------|---------------------------------0--|


(NOTE: The chords aren't played in the song until the lyric "Lonesome lows...". The tab 
is played.)
       If you have any trouble with the rhythm it's basically all downstrokes on the downbeat.

    Em             G
The lack of light, hollow sea

B
Poison beaches, limousines

Em                  G             B
Toothless dentists, cops that kill

                  Em             G                       C
My baby's got the lonesome lows, don't quite go away overnight

       C  B                      Em       Am
Doctor Blind, just prescribe the blue ones

       Em             G                 C
If the dizzying highs don't subside overnight

       C  B                      Em      Am  Em  B  E
Doctor Blind, just prescribe the red ones

[Da da da part is:]

Am  E  Em  A  Am  E  Em

                     I__________
|-------------------------------------|
|----------------------------1---0----| Repeat til "My baby's got the lonesome lows..."
|--------0------0--------2---------2--|            (and here you just play 3--2-0 on 5th string
|----2-4------0---4----1---4----------|             followed by Em)
|--------------------2--------(2)-----|
|--0--------3-------------------------|


(NOTE: The chords aren't played in the song til "Lonesome lows..." lyric. The tab above 
played.)

Em            G
Hard to hold, cold to touch

B
Fall to pieces, treat the rush

Em            G             B
In hindsight, primetime talk

Em       G           B
All your pain will end here

        Em     G             B
Let the doctor soothe your brain, dear

                  Em             G                       C
My baby's got the lonesome lows, don't quite go away overnight

       C  B                      Em       Am
Doctor Blind, just prescribe the blue ones

       Em             G                 C
If the dizzying highs don't subside overnight

       C  B                      Em      Am  Em B  E
Docter Blind, just prescribe the red ones.

[Am  E  Em  A  Am  E  Em] x2
[Am  E]



********************Non-capo version***********************


|-------------------------------|--------------------------------3--|
|--3---------------------------.|--3-----------------------------3--|
|----3----2-3------5-2----5-2---|----3----2-3------5-2-----------3--|
|------5------3--4------4-------|------5------3--4------1--0-----5--|
|------------------------------.|-----------------------------3--5--|
|-------------------------------|--------------------------------3--|

*Use all barre chords*

    Gm             Bb
The lack of light, hollow sea

D
Poison beaches, limousines

Gm                  Bb            D
Toothless dentists, cops that kill

                  Gm             Bb                      Eb
My baby's got the lonesome lows, don't quite go away overnight

       Eb  D                     Gm    (Cm)
Doctor Blind, just prescribe the blue ones

       Gm             Bb                Eb
If the dizzying highs don't subside overnight

       Eb  D                     Gm    (Cm Gm D)   G
Doctor Blind, just prescribe the red ones


Cm                         G
Da da-da, da-da da-dum, da da-da

Gm          C        Cm     G    Gm
Ah ah-ah, ah-ah da-dum, ah-da-da da


-------------------------------------------

   Gm       Bb       Eb
|--------------------------------------|
|----------------------------4---3-1---|
|----0-2-3------3-2------5-2----------.|
|-------------3--------4------(0)------|
|-----------1--------5----------------.|
|--3-----------------------------------|

Hard to hold, cold to touch


Fall to pieces, treat the rush


In hindsight, primetime talk


All your pain will end here


Let the doctor soothe your brain, dear

-------------------------------------------

                  Gm             Bb                      Eb
My baby's got the lonesome lows, don't quite go away overnight

       Eb  D                     Gm    (Cm)
Doctor Blind, just prescribe the blue ones

       Gm             Bb                Eb
If the dizzying highs don't subside overnight

       Eb  D                     Gm    (Cm Gm D)   G
Docter Blind, just prescribe the red ones


End:


Cm  G  Gm  C  Cm  G  Gm  (x2)

Cm  G