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Bloodless Tab

by Tom Mcrae


Can’t believe this song hasn’t been tabbed before! It’s a truly amazing song, one of
which I frequently cover. This is my first tab I’ve banged up on here - pretty big
stuff - haha, so dunno if it’s completely accurate, but it sounds fine to sing to and
with the recording:

Tom Mcrae - Bloodless 

(1st verse: hit strings once per chord – let ring)
				    
This train don’t stop, at the stations of the cross
   		     
No reasons left to believe
    			      
You try to stay awake, gave yourself a caffeine headache
   		      …(let ring)
To hide the taste of sleep


(2nd verse: strum every chord. Listen to recording for exact rhythm)
    			    
In choosing to forget you cut away the safety net,
			        
that holds your heart, holds your heart
				     
And you go in search of youth, touching up your empire roots
	  			     
But these days, we don’t know how to march


(pre-chorus: strong, single strum for each chord – let ring)
      			     
Satisfied with a knife in your spine
	D (strum out)
You’re bloodless


(Chorus: strum away)
	    		     			
So tell me again what am I feeling you know me so well
	      			      		        
So what am I feeling and how can you tell, I’ve got a feeling
	  D (strum few times, then let ring)
You don’t know



We think that we’re the ones 
We’re the bright unconquered suns
				     
Wait a while, we’ll watch the light grow stale
	
And we smell so very clean 
	      
But we’re the oil in this machine 
	      
And this machine
		      
This machine is going wrong


				        
So choose your sides when it comes to the fight	
        
You’re bloodless


(Chorus)
	    		     			   
So tell me again what am I feeling you know me so well
	      		          		 
So what am I feeling and how can you tell, I’ve got a feeling
	   
You don’t know

(Bridge)
			      		     
You choose your side but in the fight I see your blood run white, 
     	
Your blood run white
     	  	     (let ring)
And I-   ve seen it all before…
		
…and I see it again

	    		     			   
So tell me again what am I feeling you know me so well
	      			      		        
So what am I feeling and how can you tell, I’ve got a feeling
	   
You don’t know	

	    		     			   
So tell me again what am I feeling you know me so well
	      			      		        
So what am I feeling and how can you tell, I’ve got a feeling
	   
You don’t know

    		          		       
So tell me again what am I feeling you know me so well
	      			      		        
So what am I feeling and how can you tell, I’ve got a feeling
	  G (let ring)
You don’t know





Hope it helps.