The Spill Canvas - Black Dresses
Tuning: Standard
Note: An X below the tab's notes means you need to palm mute that note. An X ON the tab
means you just do not play that not during the strum.
Chords:
EBCAAD
e|-0--0--0--0---0--0--|
B|-7--0--0--8---0--0--|
G|-0--7--0--0---4--0--|
D|-5--0--7--10--2--9--|
A|-7--5--x--0---0--0--|
E|-0--7--8--x---x--10-|
Intro:
Sweep/strum these
V V V
e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|----7-7/8\7p0------------------------------------|
G|------0---------7-7/9\7p0---------------0h7------|
D|------5-----------0---------7-7p0--7p0-----9-----|
A|------7-----------5-----------x------------------|
E|--00--0-------77--7-------88--8--88---88---------|
xx xx xx xx xx
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----7-7/8\7p0--------------------------------------------------|
G|------0---------7-7/9\7p0---------------0h7--------------------|
D|------5-----------0---------7-7p0--7p0-----9~--7~--4/5\4/5/7~~~|
A|------7-----------5-----------x--------------------------------|
E|--00--0-------77--7-------88--8--88---88-----------------------|
xx xx xx xx xx
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
B = hammer-on
p = pull-off
Intro strumming:
EBCAEBCCEBCAEBCC
Verse:
EBCAEB
In muddy grass we stand side by side
CA
with our knuckles interlocked
EBCAEB
Black dresses flood the c emetery
CA
in this cliche tragedy
AA
Just do as you're instructed and....
CDA
Take this razor and cut your palms
EBC
I'll do the same until a river of crimson begins to flow
DA
Now drip your ruby red over the casket
EBA
A funeral for my once loved youth
Pre-chorus:
EBC
My secret is fatally gorgeous
AA
I'd die for you
EBC
But in this Bonnie and Clyde kind of romance
AA
tell me what would you do?
EBC
My secret is fatally gorgeous
AA
I'd die for you
EBC
But when your precious life is at stake
ABC
tell me would you die for me too?
Chorus:
EBC
The quivering liquids in your stomach
A
will eat away at the bad habits that have made you
EBC
a real character in the story of your now distant life
A2A2
Goodnight and goodbye, quickly
The rest of the song is pretty much just these things repeated (the verse, pre-chorus,
chorus). Listen to the song and I??m sure you can figure it out. You can also watch my