Andrew Bird – Chemical Switches (Guitar)

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Beautiful song off of Andrew Bird's latest album "Are you Serious". To my ear it sounds best played with barre chords with the C and Em frequently open. Amazingly, the track on the album was recorded in a single take by Blake Mills on guitar - play around with hammer on the A and E strings to emulate his wonderful playing style. [Intro]
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(pluck the open low E string then Hammer on into a Barre G to sound like the recording)
[Whistling Bit] Am G F G Dm Em Am G F G F C [Verse]
Am               G           F
I keep hearing a vicious rumor

G                          Dm                    Em
From the back rooms, to the alleys, to the avenues

Am                G             F
That you lost your sense of humor

G                      F              C
And the first place you look is the soles of your shoes

     Am            G           F
And I watch these ice fields melt into the sea

  G             Dm          Em
Warming you're oceans to centuries

          Am        G      F
Will your saline waters bring you back to me?

         G         F          C
Oh the weight is bringing me to my knees
[Chorus]
Am          C       G            F
Chemical switches thrown in the dark

        G         Dm         C
All it takes is a spark to begin

    Am            C           G          F
And can you tell which is the one with a mark

     G                  Dm            C
That bleeds through the clothes to the skin
[Whistling Interlude] Am G F G Dm Em Am G F G F C [Verse]
Am  G  F          G            Dm        Em
Too long I keep searching the alleys and avenues

        Am        G        F
But it seems I'm doing it wrong

          G            F         C
For I've seen neither hide nor hair of you
[Humming/Singing Interlude] Am G F G Dm Em Am G F G F C [Bridge]
             F          C          G          F
And it's a short short walk from pebbles to bricks

        G             F
From stones back to sticks

         G
We're lowering the boiling point

         Am      C          G       F
And as time goes by, gets harder to fix

          G      F           G           C
It's a volatile mix, like hydrogen and oxygen
[Chorus]
Am          C       G            F
Chemical switches thrown in the dark

        G         Dm         C
All it takes is a spark to begin