The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road (Guitar)

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The Handsome Family - "Far From Any Road" from their album "Singing Bones" (2003) Also the official theme song of HBO series "True Detective" [Intro] | Am | % | % | % | [Verse 1]
Am             E        Dm             Am
From the dusty Mesa her looming shadow grows

Am             E              Dm          Am
Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote

    C
She twines her spines up slowly

  G
Towards the boiling sun

    Dm
And when I touched her skin

   F
My fingers ran with blood
[Interlude]
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(two bar pause)
| Am | % | [Verse 2]
Am             E            Dm             Am
In the hushing dusk under a swollen silver moon

Am             E                Dm               Am
I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom

  C                              G
A strange hunger haunted me, the looming shadows danced

  Dm                                F
I fell down to the thorny brush and felt a trembling hand
[Interlude]
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(two bar pause)
| Am | % | % | % | [Verse 3]
Am                 E
When the last light warms the rocks

    Dm                Am
And the rattlesnakes unfold

Am                  E      Dm             Am
Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones

    C
And rise with me forever

 G
Across the silent sand

        Dm
And the stars will be your eyes

        F
And the wind will be my hands
[Outro] | Am | % | (bass only, Am implied)