Idlewild - American English, аккорды

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 
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:
[email protected]