Regina Spektor – Prisoners (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

Quite similar to Oedipus, chord wise. Kind of simplified to make sure it's playable on guitar. Chords: Am x02210 G/C x30003 Dm7 xx0211 Fdim xx3101 F 133211 E 022100 E7/G# 420100 C x32010 Fsus2 133011 Fmaj7 133210 F/C x33211 G/F 1x0003 Cadd11 x32011 Dm/C x3x231 Fadd9/C x332x3 C6 x35555 D7sus2 xx0210 Am/E xx2210 [Intro] | Am | G/C | Dm7 | Fdim | | Am | G/C | Dm7 | E | | F | Am | E | E7/G# | | Dm7 | F | E | E7/G# | [Verse 1]
 Am          G/C       Dm7           Fdim
All of the prisoners serving life sentences

 Am           G/C       Dm7     E
Wait for the earth to suddenly shake

  F                         Am            E        E7/G#
For the walls to somehow suddenly come crumbling, tumbling and

  Dm7             F       E      E7/G#
For the bars to somehow magically break
[Verse 2]
 Am                             G/C
Oh, there's nothing wrong with them

          Dm7               Fdim
That a thousand bucks can't fix

 Am              G/C            Dm7  E F
That a thousand arms can't hold do- own

           Am            E         E7/G#
In the ground they're tattooing the stones with

   Dm7         F            E           E7/G#
Cusses like cavemen, "Your momma was here"
[Chorus]
                  F             Fsus2          C
But they want to run through the air with no barriers or obstacles

   F       G/F            C
Gunmen or guard dogs or priests

         F           Fmaj7         Cmaj11   F/C
And to rise from the mud and start over and over

Cadd11      Dm/C     Fadd9/C
  With the people all dead, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
[Verse 3]
    Am             G/C              Dm7            Fdim
If Hans Christian Andersen could've had his way with me

      Am                G/C                 Dm7  E
Then none of this shit would have ever gone do- own

 F        Am         E         E7/G#
In my cell, I'm tattooing myself with

  Dm7           F           E         E7/G#
Mermaids and swallows and though I do swallow

 F                  Am             E         E7/G#
My mama thinks I'm grown but I'm really just little and
[Outro]
 Am C6  D7sus2 Am/E Fmaj7  Am    E E7/G#
Someday   I    will   re   mem-  be-  er

 Am C6  D7sus2 Am/E Fmaj7 Am    E E7/G#
Someday   I    will   re   mem-  be-  er

 Am C6  D7sus2 Am/E Fmaj7 Am    E E7/G#
Someday   I    will   re   mem-  be-  er

 Am
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

 C6
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

 D7sus2
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

 Am/E
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

 Fmaj7
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

 Am
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

 E
Ah ah ah ah ah ah

 E7/G#          Am
Ah ah ah ah ah ah