IDLEWILD - AMERICAN ENGLISH (best version here)
I first heard this song when i saw them live at Brixton
Academy supporting the Hives. I fell in love with this song.
Anyways - enjoy it. This is the best tab of this song on here,
the rest are so rubbish I had to tab it myself.
This is my first tab - hope you think it sounds ok!!!
Have fun
Chords to use:
B - 799877
Abm- 466444
E - 022100
F# - 244322
Intro: (this is played 3 times before the chords + vocals kick in)
Guitar 1 plays this throughout every verse.
e-----------------
B-13--------------
G---12------------
D------15---14----
A-----------------
E-----------------
Verse 1
B Abm
Songs when they're true, are all dedicated to you
E
In this invisible world I choose to live in
B Abm
And if you believe that for now I understand
E
Why words mean so much to you
B
They'll never be about you
Verse 2
B
Maybe you're young without youth
Abm E
Maybe you're old without, knowing anything's true
B
I think you're young without youth....
Pre Chorus - drums begin, riff stops.
F# E
Then you contract the American dream
Abm F#
You never look up once
F# E
You've contracted American dreams
Abm F# (slide up to B)
I require you to stop and look up.
Chorus
B F# Abm
Sing a song about myself
E B
Keep singing a song about myself
F# Abm E
Not some invisible world
(guitar 1 plays riff again)
Verse 3 - same chords as above
Constantly searching to find something new
But what will you find when you think that nothing's true?
Maybe it's that nothing is new
Verse 4
So you let me hear songs that were written all about you
Because songs weren't written for you
They'll never be about you
Pre Chorus
Chorus x 2
Middle Bit
F# E Abm F#
And I won't tell you what this means, cause you already know
And I won't tell you what this means, cause you already know.......
So - Sing a song about myself
Keep singing a song about myself
Not some invisible world
B F# Abm E
You came along and found the weak spot - that you've always wanted
B F# Abm E
Let yourself be everything that youve always wanted (While this is sung - the chorus is sung with it)
B F# Abm E
It doesnt have to be so silent - that you've always wanted
B F# Abm E
no need for explanations - that you've always wanted
Ending
B F# Abm E
You'll find, what you find when you find theres nothing x 2
End on a B
Tabbed by Liam - Norwich, Norfolk, England.
If you have any comments, or improvements - email me:
Conservative_me@hotmail.com
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