The National – Apartment Story (Guitar)

Capo 4
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I'm a huge fan of The National, but their songs are not easy to play or to cover (most of them at least), neither to figure out actually :). The other chords available here are based on a live show from The National and so are accurate to the way the band plays the song, but they aren't really that much fun to play on an acoustic guitar. I just tabbed my own version in about 10 minutes with pretty much only simple chords. Chords used: G: 320033 or 320003 C: 032010 C2: 030010 (don't know the name of this chord) C/E: 020010 [Verse]
G                             C                     C2               C/E    G
Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on

        C  C2  C/E
Nana na na

        G
Can you carry my drink I have everything else

      C
I can tie my tie all by myself

      G                   C         C2  C/E
I’m getting tied, I’m forgetting why

         G                          C
Oh we’re so disarming darling, everything we did believe

   G                           C   C2      C/E
is diving diving diving diving off the balcony
[Chorus]
G                               C   C2
Tired and wired we ruin too easy

G                                          C
sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave

G                                C                 C2   G
Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours

     C    C2  C/E
Nana na na

         G
While it sings to itself or whatever it does

        C
when it sings to itself of its long lost loves

       G                     C       C2  C/E
I’m getting tied, I’m forgetting why
[Pre-Chorus]
G                               C    C2
Tired and wired we ruin too easy

G                                          C     C2
sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave

G                                     C
but I’ll be with you behind the couch when they come
C2 C/E G C
  C/E
on a different day just like this one
[Chorus]
G
We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us

C
do whatever the TV tells us

G                           C        C2
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days

C/E   G
We’ll stay inside til somebody finds us

C
do whatever the TV tells us

G                           C
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz
[Bridge]
C2  C/E         G
so worry not

               C
all things are well

      C2 C/E G
we’ll be alright

             C    C2   C/E
we have our looks and perfume
[Chorus]
G
stay inside til somebody finds us

C
do whatever the TV tells us

G                           C
stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz

C2  C/E         G
so worry not

               C
all things are well

      C2 C/E G
we’ll be alright

             C         C2     G
we have our looks and perfume on