Death Cab for Cutie – Wheat Like Waves (Guitar)

Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E) Video Lesson
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From the album "Asphalt Meadows" (2022) Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/2I3ZdIFXnRn1PSAdMC4w71?si=ead39c1b5ab54744 [Intro] | Dsus2 D | Dsus4 D | A G | Em G | [Verse 1]
Dsus2      D        Dsus4  D
Wheat like waves, Canadian plains

        A     G     Em             G
Were an ocean wide, flowing to the sky

     Dsus2   D     Dsus4   D
With Prefab Sprout echoing out

        A      G             Em         G
Of your 90's accord with the mismatched doors

 Dsus2        D         Dsus4      D
Away from the wives for just a few days

           A           G         Em       G
Traveling 'cross the divide my delusions ablaze

      Dsus2         D       Dsus4  D
But a homesteader's life at 45

           A        G                 Em         G
Was just a fleeting dream, there's no way I'd survive
[Bridge]
    G                           Dsus2  D  Dsus4  D
The winters in Saskatchewan are so cold
[Instrumental] | A G | Em G | [Verse 2]
    Dsus2          D       Dsus4            D
You talked of your kid how frightened you'd been

         A      G         Em            G
When she almost died with tears in your eyes

      Dsus2        D    Dsus4    D
But I could not pretеnd to comprehend

              A            G         Em        G
The dеpths of that kind of love as a childless man

            Dsus2     D             G        D
And there's so little time, so many miles to drive

           A        G     Em          G
Before the endless sleep eventually arrives

      Dsus2          D            G           D
But I never would've thought that life was so long

             A       G         Em       G
That we'd be growing old with stories untold
[Chorus]
         G                           A
You were kindled by the dials on the dashboard

     G                                 D/F#  D
Your tattoos like the stamps upon your passport

 G                                 A
Speeding like we thought we were escaping

     G                                 D/F#  D
From everything we feared that we were breaking

   Em
By trying to hold them in our hands
[Instrumental] | Dsus2 D | Dsus4 D | A G | Em G | | Dsus2 D | G D | A G | Em G | [Chorus]
         G                           A
You were kindled by the dials on the dashboard

     G                                 D/F#  D
Your tattoos like the stamps upon your passport

 G                                 A
Speeding like we thought we were escaping

     G                                 D/F#  D
From everything we feared that we were breaking

   Em
By trying to hold them in our hands
[Outro] | Dsus2 D | G D | A G | Em G |