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Not A Robot But A Ghost
Andrew Bird
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"Not a Robot, But a Ghost"
by Andrew Bird
Album- Noble Beast (2009)
This song has a lot of tricky timing, a key change or two, strange section lengths, etc...
so listen closely to the song to hear all of that, because I've only given you the basics here.
Additionally, some parts are based more on the movement of different complex instrumental and
melodic lines than simple chords, so a few chord sections here are simply loose representations.
Feel free to correct them if you find a better fit.
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INTRO
|: Bm6 |C#7b9 |F#m |N.C. :| REPEAT X4
VERSE 1
Bm C#7 F#m F#7
I run the numbers through the floor
Bm C#7 F#m F#7
Here's how it goes, I crack the codes, I crack the codes that end the war
(Fig. 1)
E|---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|---4---4--7--7----6---6---6--4--2------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|---2---2--5--5----4---4---4--2--0------|
E|---------------------------------------|
I crack the codes that end the war
(Fig. 2)
E|---------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------6--7------|
G|---4---4--7--7----6---6---6------------|
D|-----------------------------3--4------|
A|---2---2--5--5----4---4---4------------|
E|---------------------------------------|
Bm
The hour
F#m
The hour
Bm
The hour
F#m
The hour
VERSE 2- Fig.1 and Fig.2 throughout
Bm C#7 F#m F#7
I pushed a note under your door
Bm C#7 F#m F#7
Here's how it goes, things come to blows, but we don't want this anymore
Bm C#7 F#m F#7
No we don't want this anymore
Bm C#7 F#m F#7
We don't want this anymore
Bm C#7 F#m
I crack the codes you end the war
A C# D F#
A C#
I hear the clockwork in your core
D F#
Time strips the gears till you forget what they were for
A C#
I push the numbers through your pores
D F#
I crack the codes I crack the codes that end the war
F#maj7 G# C#
How's my living
F#maj7 G# C#
You can call
F#maj7 G# C#
Encrypted numbers on
F#maj7 G# C#
Bathroom stalls, there's
F#maj7 G# C#
Something burning, it
F#maj7 G# C#
Casts a pall, it's
F#maj7 G# C#
Melting numbers right
F#maj7 G# C#
Off the wall
INTERLUDE- Bm F#
Bm F#
I run the numbers through the floor
Bm F#
Here's how it goes, I crack the codes, I crack the codes, you end
Bm F#
The war
OUTRO- Repeat and fade
Bm
The hour, the hour, the hour, the hour,
F#
The hour, the hour, the hour, the hour...