The Shins

Accords et partitions

New Slang

C G F Am C7

Pas de barré*

Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth. Only, i don't know how they got out, dear. Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met. I was happier then with no mind-set.

Simple Song

D A G Bm

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Well this is just a simple song To say what you've done I told you about all those fears

Caring Is Creepy

G Em D A Bm F#m

I think i'll go home and mull this over Before i cram it down my throat At long last it's crashed, the colossal mass Has broken up into bits in my moat.

Australia

E F#m A C#m B G#m

Born to multiply, born to gaze into night skies, All you want's one more Saturday. But look here, until then They're gonna buy your nice time So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters

Phantom Limb

D E A F#m Bm F#

Frozen into coats, White girls of the North, Fire past one, fire the one, They are the fabled lambs, A Sunday ham,

So Now What

E D F#m A Bm

I had this crazy idea Somehow we’d coast to the end Change lives in every direction tonight Guess we’ll just begin again

Sleeping Lessons

E A B

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Go without Til the need seeps in You're low anymore Collect your novel petals for the stem And glow, glow, melt and flow

The Rifle's Spiral

F#m B E D Abm A

Dead lungs command it. You pour your life down the rifle's spiral And show us you've earned it The cleric's fog will recede right before your eyes

It's Only Life

C F G Em Am

Youve been talking for hours you say time will wash every tower to the sea And now you got this worry in your heart When I guess its only life its only natural We all spent a little while going down the rabbit hole The things they taught you lining up to haunt you

Name For You

Bb F C Am G Dm

[Verse] My girl if you’re lucky one day Rolling down the ancient high street you’ll find In the mirror reflects a woman in her prime Can you make your way out

Gone for Good

C C/G G F Am

Untie me, I've said no vows The train is getting way too loud I gotta leave here my girl Get on with my lonely life Just leave the ring on the rail

Kissing the Lipless

D E F#m G

Called to see If your back was still aligned And your sheets Were growing grass all on the corners of your bed But you've got too much to wear on your sleeves That has too much to do with me and secretly I want to bury in the yard The grey remains of a friendship scarred

Saint Simon

D G E F C Am

After all these implements and texts designed by Intellects we're vexed to find evidently there's Still so much that hides. And though the saints dub us divine in ancient Fading lines their sentiment is just as hard to

Pink Bullets

D Em A G C F

I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole You held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold Oh what a contrast you were To the brutes in the halls My timid young fingers held a decent animal.

Turn on Me

C G F Am Dm

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You can fake it for a while Bite your tongue and smile Like every mother does an ugly child But the stars are leaking out Like spittle from a cloud

A Comet Appears

D A G

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One hand on this wily comet, Take a drink just to give me some weight, Some uber-man I'd make, I'm barely a vapor.

Mildenhall

C F G7 F7

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At fifteen we had to leave the States again Dad was stationed at an RAF base they called Mildenhall Black moss on a busted wall The cobblestones made it hard to skate I thought my flattop was so new wave

Heartworms

A B E D G#m F#m

Verse 1 Well I guess I'm just here to test your patience Cause you're so smart my tricks don't work at all Is it my lack of education? Just tell me why you never call

40 Mark Strasse

D E A C#m F#m G

Is it all so very simple And horribly complex? You suffer in a thimble And there's nothing coming next

The Fear

F C G

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[Verse 1] Fear, I feel the fear Of all the stupid things, a man could feel While his freedom rings, he squanders the deal What am I lying, what took me this long

The Past And Pending

Aadd9 E E7sus4 A Em G

As someone sets light to the first fire of Autumn We settle down to cut ourselves apart. Cough and twitch from the news on your face And some foreign candle burning in your eyes

So Says I

D Am E F C G

[Verse] An address to the golden door I was strumming on a stone again Pulling teeth from the pimps of gore when hatched (run*)

No Way Down

C# Ab F# Ebm Bbm

Meet the son of a Government man And a pillar of salt I was born with blood on my hands and Have all signs of a bleeding heart

Young Pilgrims

D A G Bb F C

[Verse 1] A cold and wet November dawn And there are no barking sparrows Just emptiness to dwell upon.

Sea Legs

F G D Bb C a

[Verse 1] Of all the churning random hearts, under the sun Eventually fading into night These two are opening now, as we lie I touch you under fuller l-i-g-h-t

Fantasy Island

F G C Em Am

Verse 1 Long in tooth Olives and vermouth I dine like an aging pilot Where are they now

Port Of Morrow

F G E Dm A C

Under my hat it reads "the lines are all imagined" A fact of life I know to hide from my little girls I know my place amongst the bugs and all the animals And it's from these ordinary people You are longing to be free

Half A Million

Em G D C Am F

Verse 1 I make myself a promise Then break it every night I'm feeling loose and life don't make no sense I use my brains to build a fence

Girl Inform Me

A D E F#m C#m C

[Verses] Girl inform me all my senses warn me Your clever eyes could easily disguise Some backwards purpose It's enough to make me nervous.

Dead Alive

G D Em A C E

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[Verse 1] On a walk in a fragile state Weird angles coming over the wire Back home we got girls in braids They're on roller skates, and they roll any way they like

Know Your Onion

B E A C G# G

The ground work for this comes from the previous tab, but I've fixed some bits and Added little touches here and there that were left out. It should be noted that James Mercer plays this song high up on the neck, so he uses a 5th root E barre Chord and the B on the same fret. It also sounds much better this way.

Cherry Hearts

A D G C F Bm

Verse 1 You're not wanting anybody wanting in you I get it, all is fair But I've been biting all my cherry hearts in two And you don't even care

Red Rabbits

G F C Em D Am

Ode to the center of the earth again The place where it's hot love You know it hurts to breathe in On the watershed you balance on he's begging in Well did he ever know ? Will he ever know ?

September

A D G C F#m E

Into this strange elastic world Pont us kindly gave up a pearl His eternal stone and mud But ain't she lovely bone and blood

For A Fool

G C F Am Dm Bb

Young and bright, but now just a dim light Off in the distance A falling stone, following the path Of least resistance

Those To Come

D6 Em7 A7

[Verse 1] Eyeless in the morning sun you were Pale and mild, a modern girl Taken with thought, still prone to care Making tea in your underwear

Rubber Ballz

G F C Dm Am Em

Ba dum, ba dum, ba dum, ba dum Ba dum, ba dum, ba dum, ba dum Ba dum, ba dum, ba dum, ba dum Ba dum, ba dum, ba

Girl Sailor

E D A C#m F#m G

The gutter may profess its love Then follow it with hesitation But there are just so many eyes You have different

Painting A Hole

A5 G5 D C E7 Ab

[Verse] The tycho don't you know Nothing? The doors on the Oven wide enough to make us all Kin Psychotic

Spilt Needles

G Bm Em D Bm7

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I've done myself an impossible crime Bm G D Asus Had to paint myself a hole and fall inside If it's far enough in sight and rhyme Bm G D Asus G

Girl On The Wing

G Bm D A E Bbm

One wound-up punch of intuition, lays Flat my whole take on us. You're the girl on the wing of a barnstormer, The tidal rabbit who came of Age before her time.

Mine's Not a High Horse

D A G C E

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After that confrontation You left me wringing my cold hands We shared some information We might not recover from

Celebate Life

D A G E

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D Dsus4 A Asus4 The dust from a four-day affair is now landing A Asus4 D All over the floor and your brown legs Dsus4 A Asus4

Fall Of 82

A D E C#m G F#m

I do relate to you in so many ways But I didn't go through what you must have in those early days You had to be strong at such a very young age A new life on Ilima Lane

One By One All Day

A E G D B a

I worked this out (with help from the previous version and the fantastic tab) by Listening to James Mercer play it acoustically. I'm 100% certain that this is Right. It sounds lovely with open chords, with the obvious exception being the F#, Which is easiest (and sounds best) played at 2nd fret. I initially thought that the chord after the second E in the verse was E7sus4

Fighting in a Sack

D G Em A C Bm

Just last night I woke from some unconscionable dream And it nailed to my forehead again To keep this boat afloat There are things you can't afford to know So I save all my breath for the sails

Bait And Switch

E A B F#m D

Hide from my psychic derailer Drive this car to the sea Spend this night as high as I can Up a towering hemlock

Pressed In a Book

D E G A C C#m

Doted on like seeds planted in rows The untied shoelaces of you life Nurtured all year then pressed in a book Or displayed in bad taste at the table Problems arise and you fan the fire

Weird Divide

B A D G F E

Several days a month you made The mile to my house, And had me do A stroll with you.

Black Wave

G Em Bm Dm

Oooh Oooooh Oooh Oooooh Laaa Lalala Ooh Oooh Oooh

The Great Divide

F C G Am Dm E

[Verse 1] Your starlit eyes The afterglow a sign You’ve set us wandering So let me ride through night

Your Algebra

Em C B B7

[Verse 1] You may notice certain things before you die. Mail them to me should they cause Your algebra to fail.

Turn A Square

A C G E D

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She shone up bright like a knife Wearing tennis shorts made of stripes Hand in hand to the grass and we got it right Got it nice, nice, nice Just a glimpse of an ankle and I

Pam Berry

Bm E7 A C#m E Cm

This lass Some fifteen odd years Is widely known To have spat In her teacher's lap

Sphagnum Esplanade

G C Am Em F D

How lovely a find Will tend to my mind Along this mossy trail And how coyly it hides The truth about how

We Will become Silhouettes

A D

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Intro: I've got a cupboard with cans of food, filtered water, And pictures of you and i'm not coming out Until this is all over And i'm looking through the glass where the light bends

Theyll Soon Discover

G A C D Bm E

Unfolding in the currents under the waves at the bottom of the sea Well, he’s our buddy Got alotta vision His buck-teeth Cockeyed smile

Nothing At All

D A Bm G

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[Verse 1] Well there's an ideal inside of me That we're nothing at all There's nothing threatening controlling me In fact there's nothing at all

Mild Child

Dm Bbmaj7 C# C F Am11

This ten year old, smiling summer eyes Gsus4 They win, they win Their sur vival showed us how they could dance like angels There was a talking on the clouds, the sun, some young nervous head just learned to punish

When I Goose Step

Ab Bb Eb G Gb Cm

When you're riding the rails with those wide open eyes, Well there's one old southpaw you will always fight. And alone, on a worn out throne is the reigning Queen of the Questions.

Gloating Sun

E G D A

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[Verse 1] Tap on your cap There's a whispering breeze in town The trees have found a voice and You're one for fun

Baby Boomerang

E A B

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Slim lined, Sheikh faced Angel of the light Riding like a cowboy In the graveyard of the night New York Witch

Pariah King

A G Bm D F#m E

It all spans out on a plane Looking back, hardly a hill or valley still remains The boy before the pain Still longs for the womb of love as he smashes down with a cane

The Waltz Is Over

C Em G D7 F# F

[Verse 1] That hue in the sky Just a glimpse of another life Are barely missed by some stupid collection Life's random dominoes, if it'd only been more aggressive

Plenty Is Never Enough

B E F# A# C#m D#m

Cover of Tenenment Halls' song on Merge's new 20th Anniversary compilation. Popped this out pretty quick so I didn't bother with proper voicings. Most Likely using a capo. Oh, and the lyrics were copy/pasted and I don't think they Are all correct. Have fun:

My Seventh Rib

C D G A Bb E

The Shins - My Seventh Rib Submitted by Cody Armacher Tab Courtesy of http://www.nellmedia.com G riff A riff

Those Bold City Girls

G A D C Bm E

A great Shins song, not very difficult though. Listen to it to get the timing and the stroke patterns right. Have fun, CesareBorgio

Eating Styes From Elephants Eyes

E B Bb Ebm F# A

I worked this out by listening to the song from Nature Bears a Vacuum, and listening to An old concert by The Shins circa 2002. The lyrics are just taken from the internet with A couple of my own ideas thrown in. This song should be played with barre chords, using F# run up should be played with open chords, certainly sounds like that's how it's done! I hope this helps.