Violet Bad Astronaut
BAND: Bad Astronaut (or Joey Cape)
STANDARD TUNING: EADGBe
Key: F is a low F: 133211 (the 211's are optional to your playing)
Fh is a high F: x81010xxx (an octave up)
It sounds better to play barre chords for most of the chords except maybe the Dm.
[F] Tonight the drunks [G]are infected, [Bb]we're [C]on our w[F]ay
As if they drop [G]by to see me[Bb] un[C]invit[F]ed
Bb C Fh C Bb
And I am a wallflower, maybe a better father
This is a [C]job
[F] For seconds I [G]miss the Bentleys
To[Bb]day m[C]aybe they'll c[F]all,
You describe [G]every prison you [Bb]pass t[C]hrough them a[F]ll
[Bb] Then he [C]asked you for your [F]head and I [Aadd9]vowed to burn your bed
[Dm] Try to preten[G]d, but this is your [Bb]life,
someh[C]ow, it feels right
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bridge: (see an alternative way to play this bit at the end)
[F] I'm calling this evolution, [C]I'm falling for institution
[Dm] Warm submissio[C]n enveloping [Bb]you
D|-0-2-3--2-0-----| A|------------3-1-| (violin fill) E|----------------|
(repeat chords)
Tomorrow I'll survive the questions
Knives buried with cold indifference
My world is true rendered by you
(violin fill x2)
H[Aadd9]ere they come a[Bb]gain, I could [C]never find the w[F]ords
So I d[C]isguised them in [Bb]verse
C Fh
Until it comes out dumb and wrong,
The simplest s[C]ong,[Bb] if you sing a[C]long
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*bridge: alternative playing method
the way i originally learnt that bridge section:
* * #
G|-10-10-7-7-77-5-55-555-3~-| D|-10-10-7-7-77-5-55-535-3~-| A|--8--7-5-5-55-3-33-333-1~-| -then play the violin fill E|--------------------------|
*played 16 times
The Joey Cape version of the song on the Tony Sly split has an extra section to
it:
[F](Marry me Kristen, [Bb]marry me Kristen
[G]I want to [C]be the only one)
(use the "bridge" chords for this)
I'm painting a revolution
I'm falling for institution
Warm colors enveloping blue
D|-0-2-3--2-0-----| A|------------3-1-| E|----------------|
("bridge" chords again)
Shot of comfort in a warm convention
Medicinal injection
36 years ended by you
*
D|-0-2-3-2-0---5-3-2-0-3--| A|-----------3------------| E|------------------------|
*as this 3 is played, the F chord for the next section is played, so you can play
them simultaneously
[F] Tonight the drunks [G]are infected
[Bb]We're [C]on our [F]way
key:
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
~ = let ring
X = mute
just listen to the song to get the timing
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