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You Are A Light

Pavement

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song: you are a light
artist: pavement
album: terror twilight
tabbed by michael mcnulty


i'm not sure what tuning malkmus used in the original version of this song,
but this version is in standard tuning.  mostly just chords, with a riff 
thrown in...not sure if the chord names are 100% accurate..


D       xx0232
D+5     xx0332
Bm/D    xx0432
E7/D    xx0240
E7      020100

D7      x00212

Cadd9   x32030
G       320033
G/D     xx0033

Bb      688766
Bm-5    789777
E9      076777

riff 1

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D                               D+5
Tangled in the midst of all the trust the way you pissed inside the 

Bm/D                  E7/D
brain file technology drives.

            E7          riff 1 
Show me the dots now.

D7 
Who was it that said the world was mainly all divorces and spare change?

      G                            E7
Let's lethalize our slingshots and swallow propane.

            D  Cadd9      G           G/D       
You are the liiiight. The calm in the day.

            D  Cadd9      G
You are the liiiight. The calm in the day.

D                               D+5                             
Senior year abroad i ripped the pea out of the pod. 

             Bm/D                     E7/D
In store for three months of exile in spain.

              E7      riff 1
Where was the danger?

D7
Watch out for the gypsy children in electric dresses they're insane.

            G                        E7
I hear they live in crematoriums and smoke your remains.

            D   Cadd9     G           G/D
You are the liiiight. The calm in the day.

            D   Cadd9     G        
You are the liiiight. The calm in the day.


[solo] 
[guitar continues: D Cadd9 G G/D  (two times)]


[breakdown]
[bass: D Bb B E   D C G Bb]
[noise and stuff]


D         Bb     Bm-5           E9
I drive a stick. Gotta love it. Automatic.

D        Cadd9       G       Bb 
Oh everybody's gotta ride in something.

D          Bb     Bm-5           E9  
High life, lived, comatosed him! Bring it on in.

D         Cadd9     G          Bb
Oh        I hope it arrives by monday.

D        Bb    Bm-5                     E9
Dry ice, skid, button the strippers and ??????

D         Cadd9     G      Bb 
Oh        I have to die on sunday!

D      Bb  Bm-5                       E9
I rake in, laundry-matt spenders, and ??????

D         Cadd9          G        Bb
Oh    Who rolls with the isolater.  

      D          Cadd9    G      Bb
Gotta roll cause i am the isolater.



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