Destroyer – Farrar Straus And Giroux (Guitar)

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Destroyer is Dan Bejar, one of the New Pornographers (usually referred to as "indie supergroup New Pornographers" and then followed by a mention of Neko Case). There aren't any chords/tabs for Destroyer songs online, which is just ridiculous; the man can write rock songs (or, in the case of "Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Sea of Tears)," melancholy pop/country songs) like nobody's business, and who doesn't like to rock out, now and again, in the grand indie style? Having said that, I hope I've been rocking (or popping) appropriately to this song. D
                        F#m
It was back amongst the living

                Bm
Your smile was giving 

        G
Me a thrill

                D
Enough to come so close

                F#m
To closing the deal
The steal of the century
  Bm
A century stolen from our hearts 

                  G
To a house on the hill

                        A
But if that is what it takes

                   G
If that is what it takes

                   A       G
If that is what it takes

             D
To be a stone

                          F#m
A stone's throw from your throne

                    Bm
No man has ever hung 

                                 G
From the rafters of a second home

                    D
No man has ever hung

                                 F#m
From the rafters of a second home
Bm G
    D
It's true 

           F#m
I needed you more

                   Bm
Back when I was poor

                              G
The wealthy dowager, the patroness
She guessed it The answer wasn't yes
   D
But her maxims were fine

               F#m
The ethos that flew about her mind

     Bm
Like swallows in search

     G
Of a burnt-down bell tower church

                      A
But if that is what it takes

                   G
If that is what it takes 

                   A       G
If that is what it takes

        D
To be a stone

                           F#m
A stone's throw from your throne

                    Bm
No man has ever hung

                               G
At the temporary age of twenty-four
(With) both feet on the floor
D                                    F#m
Listening to the bona fide stasis of sound
The eaves dripping
Bm                              G
Yesterday's ill-timed August rain

                   D                         F#m
If there is such a thing as ill-timed August rain 
Bm G D F#m Bm G (x2) D