Big Thief – Simulation Swarm (Guitar)

Capo 1
Key
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Chords

This version tries to sound similar to the original studio version but without the need of changing tuning and playing relatively easy voicings and positions. It's made from and for an intermediate player but I tried not to make an over-simplification (like the tab by @lenavd06, which is a little too easy (for me) and therefore less accurate to the original. However, I did over-simplify the instrumental/guitar riff part. [CHORDS] (relative to capo) E--A--D--G--B--e C6 { x 3 2 2 0/1 x } C6* (actually C6/9) { x 3 0 2 0/1 0 } C6/F { 1 (3) 2 2 0/1 x } C6/F* { x 3 0 2 0/1 0 } C6/G { 3 (3) 2 2 0/1 x } C6/G* { x 3 0 2 0/1 0 } Cmaj7 { 8 10 10 0 0 0 } Am(add9) { 5 7 7 5 0 0 } G6 { 3 5 5 4 0 0 } Fmaj7(#11){ 1 0 2 2 1 0 } Dm6/9 { 10 12 12 10 0 0 } [Intro] C6 C6/F C6/G C6/F X4 [Verse 1]
C6           C6/F
  I tried to tell you

  C6/G               C6/F
I didn't know how to stay

       C6           C6/F
You believe she can see through

C6/G                  C6/F
Cutting at the silent clay

     C6          C6/F
A relief, beckon deep blue

 C6/G                 C6/F
Fettered in the magnet sun

        C6        C6/F
Eat the gun as it feeds you

C6/G              C6/F
Spitting up the oxygen

        C6  C6/F  C6/G  C6/F
Once again

        C6  C6/F  C6/G  C6/F
Once again
[Verse 2]
       C6          C6/F
Once again, empty horses

C6/G                      C6/F
Gallop through the violet door

        C6            C6/F
Follow red, crooked courses

C6/G                   C6/F
Shadows on the moonlit floor

       C6           C6/F
O my stars, winged creatures

C6/G                 C6/F
Gathering in silken height

          C6         C6/F     C6/G  C6/F
Like the last human teachers
[Verse 3]
       C6            C6/F
Once again, we must bleed new

C6/G               C6/F
Even as the hours shake

          C6          C6/F
Crystal blood like a dream true

    C6/G                  C6/F
A ripple in the wound and wake

       C6*       C6/F*
You believe, I believe too

     C6/G*               C6/F*
That you are the river of light

       C6*         C6/F*
Who I love, that I cling to

       C6/G*            C6/F*
In the belly of the empty night
[Chorus]
        Cmaj7 Am(add9)      G6         Fmaj7
From the 31st floor of the simulation swarm

          Cmaj7     Am(add9)               G6           Fmaj7
With the drone of fluorescence, flicker, fever, fill the form

        Dm6/9            Am(add9)           Cmaj7         Fmaj7
With a warm gush, now I wanna touch like we never could before

    Cmaj7      Am(add9)            G6            Fmaj7
I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war

        Cmaj7          Am(add9)              G6             Fmaj7
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms and walk you to the shore
[Verse 4]
C6     C6/F
   I remember

 C6/G               C6/F
building an energy shield

        C6            C6/F
In your room, like a temple

C6/G                     C6/F
Swallows in the windless field

       C6            C6/F
Very thin, with your mother

C6/G                C6/F
Tall as a pale green tree

      C6             C6/F
Very wild, bright as winter

       C6/G           C6/F
Rising with a prism key

       C6        C6/F
And a child to deliver

 C6/G                   C6/F
Taken with the blood and vine

        C6          C6/F    C6/G  C6/F
As the first little angel

[Instrumental]
   Cadd9-C  Am9-Am7   Fmaj7
e|----------------------------------|
B|-----3-1-----1--------0-----------|
G|-----0-------4-0-----2------------|
D|----2-------2--------2-----0-0-2b-|
A|--3--------0----------------------|
E|-------------------1--------------|
[Verse 5]
C6       C6/F
  Little Andy

C6/G                 C6/F
soft in your newborn skin

      C6         C6/F
Only one, little Andy

C6/G             C6/F
will you return again?

  C6             C6/F
I believe we can renew

  C6/G                C6/F
And you could be my brother

       C6          C6/F
Once again, fall asleep with

   C6/G                 C6/F
our backs against each other

      C6*         C6/F*
You believe, I believe too

     C6/G*                C6/F*
That you are the river of light

       C6*         C6/F*
who I love, That I sing to

       C6/G*              C6/F*
in the belly of the empty night
[Chorus]
        Cmaj7 Am(add9)      G6         Fmaj7
From the 31st floor of the simulation swarm

          Cmaj7     Am(add9)               G6           Fmaj7
With the drone of fluorescence, flicker, fever, fill the form

        Dm6/9            Am(add9)           Cmaj7         Fmaj7
With a warm gush, now I wanna touch like we never could before

    Cmaj7      Am(add9)            G6            Fmaj7
I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war

        Cmaj7          Am(add9)              G6             Fmaj7
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms and walk you to the shore

        Cmaj7          Am(add9)              G6             Fmaj7
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms and walk you to the shore

    Cmaj7      Am(add9)            G6            Fmaj7
I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war

        Cmaj7          Am(add9)              G6             Fmaj7
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms

[Instrumental]
   Cadd9-C  Am9-Am7   Fmaj7
e|----------------------------------|
B|-----3-1-----1--------0-----------|
G|-----0-------4-0-----2------------|
D|----2-------2--------2-----0-0-2b-|
A|--3--------0----------------------|
E|-------------------1--------------|
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