Sufjan Stevens – The Owl And The Tanager (Guitar)

This is a guitar transcription of this piano song the A string) Key of Bb minor

Chords:
      Bbm    Cm   Fm    Ab
 e|--------------------------|
 B|--------------------------|
 G|--------------------------|
Db|- --5------7----0-----2---|
 A|----6------6----1-----3---|
 E|----6------8----1-----4---|
He arpeggiates these triads in the beginning and later on during the build-up you can 
strum them.

The melody that plays in some verses (first at 1:11):
 e|-------------------------|
 B|-------------------------|
 G|-------------------------|
Db|--9-11h12-9--9-11h12-9---|
 A|-------------------------|
 E|---------------------6---|

the melody that plays between some of the verses (first at 1:30):
 e|------------------------------------------------------------|
 B|------------------------------------------------------------|
 G|---------------------6--------------------------------------|
Db|-7h9-7--9-7---7h9-7-9--9p7---7h9-7-9-7----------------------|
 A|-----------------------------------------9-8-6--------------|
 E|------------------------------------------------9-8-6-8-9-6-|

lyrics:

Bbm           Cm
    All I had hoped for

                     Fm
I kept inside your car

                    Ab
The rabbit in the barn

Bbm               Cm
   Most of all I wait

                      Fm                       Ab
I wait beside the door; I wait beside the door

etc Oh! I was wrong! trembling in the cage I was diamonds in the cage In seven hours I consider death And your father called to yell at me You little boy, you little boy Found out you cheated me I ran behind the barn and cut my hands somehow Blood in the meadowlark I punched your ears instead I punched you in the head You only laughed and laughed and laughed How I was wrong! tingling from the kill Tickle me until you devil bird you evil still Slept on my arms, I was sleeping in the sill I was sleeping in the room with you You little boy, you little boy How could you run from me now? The loneliest chime in the house The loneliest chime in the house You let it out you let it out Come to me Calvary still I'm weeding and raking until I'm bleeding in spite of my love for you It bruised and bruised my will Counting alluvial plains The breathing inside of the range You touched me inside of my cage Beneath my shirt your hands embraced me Come to me feathered and frayed For I am the ugliest prey, For I am the ugliest prey The owl, the reckless reckless praise You said you'd wait for me Down by the Tannery Creek Far out by the clothesline where we used to kiss behind the sheets Wrapped in a blanket of red The Owl and the Tanager said The Owl and the Tanager said One waits until the hour is death Apollo