Soot And Stars

Song: Soot + Stars Tuning: Standard Notes on the Tab: *For the sake of time I didn’t really lable the chords and just named them by the base in the diagrams that is how I play them and they are always played in that order. *The notes in (x) are ones that I decide to play on whims to mix it up a little since it a long song. *Obviously this is a much simplified way of playing the song and even more so it is my of playing the song so change the chord figerings and plunkings to whatever you want. **This song is meant for a piano yet this tab is for a guitar. **This tab is really just because I like playing the song yet can’t play piano. Listening to the song should help you get the strumming. Verse e|--0--0--0--0-(3)-0--0--0--| b|--0--0--3--0-(3)-3--0--1--| g|--2--0--2--0--0--2--0--2--| d|--2--2--0--2--2--0--2--2--| a|--0--2-----3--2-----3--0--| E|-----0--------0-----------| Chorus e|--3-(2)(3)-0--| b|--0--3-(1)-1--| g|--0--2--0--2--|    X 2 d|--0--0--2--2--| a|--2-----3--0--| E|--3-----------| e|--3-(2)-0-(3)-| b|--0--3--1-(1)-| g|--0--2--2--0--| d|--0--0--2--2--| a|--2-----0--3--| E|--3-----------| e|--3-(2)(3)-0--| b|--0--3-(1)-1--| g|--0--2--0--2--| d|--0--0--2--2--| a|--2-----3--0--| E|--3-----------| C* (the last chord) e|--3--| b|--0--| g|--0--| d|--2--| a|--3--| E|-----|                  the words flow decisions made idea’s mine but the inspiration not dreams of hangers-on dreams of getting well spells of esmeralda amarose fortold splinters in the eye        sentiments remain         bones are never asked where are we going to it was never up to me and yet i pushed until it broke                  i love the open road and all that it suggests wheelwagon dust weeds and infidelities and always swore our love never questioned why in a wooden house immovable and silent and drinking strawberry wine     forever lost in town      and through the sleeping streets nightbound and heavy wheels in a spoke just a spoken foreign sound                  know my gates are high my friends even higher forgotten in my mind yet the scars still lingering cloud the blue skies i’m jealous of you birds was the only truth in a world full of words hear the prairie sound       in a friend called neil      the heart is pointed down but my spirit pointed up his voice the siren of greek mythology i pause with my pen i begin to defend every action taken every moment sealed when i was quick it coursed through open veins the will to live the urgency to move behind a panel door sealing cherry stain i played my guitar and lived those lonesome notes like a dog that’s down       in a corner just aside       waiting to be called waiting to be yours ghosts of a machine without purpose or will                  i’ll often speak of you but the you was always me ’cause when i speak of me it’s me i ask of you   so let there be no truth just trickery in rhymes time the only thing waiting still is death i hope for resolution        pray one defining moment     pause without restraint barren without child a child is who i was a child is who i’ll die (bar played with no lyrics) a child is who i’ll die soot in my hair and stars in my hands soot in my hair and stars in my hands soot in my hair and stars in my hands