The Tragically Hip – Leave (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# SONG: Leave BAND: The Tragically Hip ALBUM: In Violet Light (2002) TABBED BY: Ross Guertin ([email protected]) E, F#, E, F#, E, B
D
'Do you mean the attack is routine?'

  E               B
A bird asked of a bird

    D
'In this context, a concave nest,

E                  B
How do we learn to hurt?'
D, E, B
D
'Do you mean there's no variation?'

         E              B        D
Watching a dog charge a flock of birds
Exploding in congregation
E                  B
'Why plan; when we stop?'

D
'I dunno... but why suppose

     E                     B
It's not the way it should be?

            D
When you can fly above
The great waiting list,'
       E
As the crow implies,

    B
'We won't be missed,

       D         E
We can leave.'
G, D, F#m, G
A
It's a routine flight for this bird tonight
There's more worms than earth in the afterlife Where the blind feed the blind,
                        F#m           G
Whispering things like 'On the money' and 'Bullseye'

A
She picks up the little leaves
Where human wrecks are left to seed Left to repaint their deities
    F#m                G
And plaster away at their villainies

              E           B
Where there's love, there's hope

        D
'And do you hope those earthbound poets

      E                        B
Could learn to sing as good as us?

D                        E
So we can sit back and enjoy our illusions

B
And our quietus?'

      D
'Well I don't know... but why suppose

     E                     B
It's not the way it should be?

             D
When you can squawk
And wait for word from above
    E                    B
And change yourself into something you love

         D         E
When you leave?'