Kevin Devine – No History (Guitar)

Capo 4 • Video Lesson
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This tab is based on the Acoustic performance by Kevin Devine found here: I'm not 100% on the transition between Chorus and Verse. Please feel free to add a correction to it. Enjoy! [Intro] Strum muted strings 4 times, then go right into the 1st Verse. [Verse]
Am               F
The Future was a Plane through a skylight

C               Em
Over Tribeca at 8:45

Am               F
My brother, at a conference room table

C                      Em          
Watched the future rearrange all our lives.
[Pre-Chorus]
F       C             F           C     
I was sleeping in her bed for the future

F     C     G              C
1st & 20th, five miles away

F            C                 F        C
Her roommate knocked, he was a relative stranger

F       C           G                      Em
"Kev, I need you to come out here, okay?"  "Okay."
[Verse]
Am                  F
The future was me, drunk at my desk job:

C                     Em
"Update the database, reflect the deceased."

Am                     F
Cantor Fitzgerald as a digital graveyard

C                            Em          
Next to each name, I typed a lowercase "d"
[Pre-Chorus]
F       C             F           C     
I was frightened by the face of the future

F          C        G              C
It had the teeth of perpetual war

F            C                  F       C
I called my father, he said, "I know, I see it.

F            C           G                      Em
I thought it made sense. I don't anymore."
[Chorus]
C           Am   F
The mosque on my corner

C       Am          G
The firetrucks everywhere

C        Am    F
The anger, The mourners

C           Am               G
No History, it's dead in the air
[Interlude] D G C F [Verse]
Am                  F
The future was an ad during football:

C                        Em
"We are supported by the will of the world."

Am                     F
From the floor, I felt everything tilting

C                             Em          
I watched my brother hold his 10 month old girl
[Pre-Chorus]
F             C                F            C     
Fifteen years later, and we're still in the future

F             C           G              C
The blood and money don't fix anything

F            C                 F            C
We've grown accustomed to the depths of the danger

F            C      G                 Em
This is the future: severe and always happening
[Chorus]
C           Am   F
The mosque on my corner

C       Am          G
The firetrucks everywhere

C        Am    F
The anger, The mourners

C           Am               G
No History, it's dead in the air
[Outro]
C           Am               G
No History, it's dead in the air
D G C F Am