cavetown – Night Knuckles (Guitar)

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Here's a link to the original song https://cavetown.bandcamp.com/track/night-knuckles (All palm muted unless specified.) (All chords are played on the E string as bar chords {except for E obviously!}) [Intro]

(Harmonics)
e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------| x4
A|-----<7>---------<7>-----|
E|-<9>-----<7>-<9>-----<7>-|
(This repeats for most of the song so just listen for when to play it.)

A5 B5 A5 B5 x4 E A C#m A x2 [Verse]

E           A
Welcome to midnight

C#m            A
Screams when I open my eyes

E            A
Premeditated isolation

        C#m        A
and it still bites

E           A
Welcome to real life

C#m                     A
Time doesn’t matter and you’re gonna die

E                             A
Drip drop it goes through the holes in your skull

       C#m
In the night time they grow

       A
In the night time they grow

[Instrumental] (Not PM) E A C#m A x2 [Verse] (Gradually crescendo from nearly full PM to half PM)

E           A
Leave if you’re sure

        C#m                    A
When it comes to this you know better than you think

          E
And don’t tell me it’s fine

      A
don’t tell me I’m wrong

            C#m
Because the faker the hope,

         A
the more painful the song

[Chorus] (Half PM)

E
Get it in your thick skull

   A
Of course it won’t be easy

              C#m                        A                   E
It’s just the way it is deal with it I’m tired of whining

                             A
These are just things that I hammer into my skin

       C#m
in the night when the sky looks like my

A
knuckles and my eyes

e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------| x3
A|-----<7>---------<7>-----|
E|-<9>-----<7>-<9>-----<7>-|

e|-----------------X-X-|

B|-----------------X-X-|
G|-----------------X-X-|
D|-----------------X-X-|
A|-----<7>---------X-X-|
E|-<9>-----<7>-<9>-X-X-|

[Bridge] (Not PM) A F# E A

A                            F#
These are just things that I hammer into my skin

       E
in the night when the sky looks like my

A
knuckles and my eyes

A F# E A

A                            F#
These are just things that I hammer into my skin

       E              F#
in the night when the sky looks like my

A                          E
knuckles and my eyes