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The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss

Whitehorse
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
{capo: 5}
{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
{section: Intro}
...
[I don't have much but I got the good stuff
...
I keep it tucked away where you can find it if you've got the guts
...
I got a girl from the 'burbs who won't talk
...
(I don't know why but you make me sweat
...
When trouble comes calling, I'm packing my bags for the west
...
I'll let it cool if you light my fire
...
Bumper shine my way home)
{section: Chorus 1}
...
[I don't have much but I am a rich man
...
I got a woman down from the Park Ridge who is finer than sand]
A second-hand gypsy is no fading flower
Fingers are frozen in furious power
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire
Cold, cold sweat on the back of my knees
The future runs in on the Assiniboine breeze
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire
All the square pegs and all the round holes
Couldn't fit all of the stories you told
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire
...
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire [Am7M]
DEVIL'S GOT A GUN
{section: Intro}
Am-E--Am-
{section: Chorus}
I'm never going home
I'll be the only one
With daylight on my tail
And Heaven on the run
Rain is jumping up into the clouds
A girl has ceased to make her father proud
Lovers wrapped up in cellophane
The bitter fruit has fallen from its prey
{section: Chorus}
Hold me, I know not who I am
If I'm a woman, you're a creature, not a man
The eyes of a lover- they look like any other to me
It's down to the second hand
The tick-tock is more than you can stand
The grinders and the wheels they never see
We're fighting to the bottom of the deep
{section: Chorus}
Daylight on my tail
And Heaven on the run
MISMATCHED EYES (BOAT SONG)
{sot}Simplified intro/verse:
e|0-------|0-------|
B|--3/2-3-|--3/2-3-|{eot}
[Is it the [A]list and the sway
...
Is it the roll and the pitch]
...
Or he seven-year itch)
[I hear the [A]mating calls of fireflies
...
Some celestial blues]
...
And that's something I can use)
...
And it's falling from my face
[It is the [G]face] (It is the face)
...
[It is the face] (It is the face)
[Will I remember to remember
That without I'm a shadow]
(Of a drifter and a barfly
And whatever else you had to be)
[It's true I've come around
Now I can even touch my toes]
(And all the running and the talking-
Yeah, now everybody knows)
[You never] speak but I can hear you
As you sing out from your mismatched eyes
[They are the eyes] (They are the eyes)
[They are the eyes]
I will to die with
[We're on a boat out on the ocean
And there's nothing more to share]
(We've gone from one wave to another
And back again a where)
[We go where guitars are hung over
And the songs are fast asleep]
(I feel the flesh wounds in my heart
But they are mine for me to keep)
[In your] pocket or your fist
Or in your mind but they come to you [by your ears]
(They are the ears) [They are the ears]
(They are the ears)
That I will sing to
{section: Intro}
Am--F--Dm--C-G-
I keep my eye upon the Bluejay flying
From your collar to your hipbone baby
I don't expect it to be on you always
But surprise me with it one day maybe
The way you did when I came in from the cold
And nothing on you but a devil-wide grin and
I don't imagine I could tire of the act but/echo
What a lonely, lonely road it's been
{section: Chorus}
Is my punk flame burning out?
{section: Chorus}
I been eyeing up a coalmine baby
I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and
I been listening to the radio sometimes...
A5 0022X0 (or power chord)
D5 X00235 (or power chord)
{section: Intro}
{section: Chorus}
(It's been a) cold
Cold July
(Breeze past the corridor
Radiator on the fritz)
We walked down to see the melted mess
Snow to slush at the Charleswood Lagoon
(Frozen dry)
{section: Chorus}
(CHORUS)
Since this song is electronic, these chords are approximations.
{section: Intro}
...
Jane, she gets so close
...
You can have her
...
It don't matter
Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you know, you're gonna get caught
Jane don't lose your jam
Don't underestimate your hand
Play the ace, don't show it on your face
Keep the jack
You're the queen
Take the chips
To the cash machine
Jane you hurt so good
Like all the B-movie harlots would
Play the part, take the body, not the heart
Face down in the mire
Hidden with the hearts for hire
Everybody knows
But you and it shows
{sot}Actual verse parts:
A|--------2-------|--------2---3---|
E|0-----0-----3---|0-----0---------|{eot}
{sot}D|2-----2-1-----1-|0-----0---------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|--------4-----4-|0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~--0-1-2-------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|--3---------3---|{eot}
She went down
With a heavy load
But who is this fading flower?
Mm-mm)
{section: Chorus}
from your [F7M]sting
You should know
In like lamb
Out like a lion
(I came in)
Like a lamb
Out like a lion
We grew up
So we were told
Time just leaves us
Out in the cold
Seasons change
I'm getting warm
A feline in mohair
Mm-mm
{section: Chorus}
(CHORUS)
(I came in)
Like a lamb
Out like a lion
(x2)
{section: Intro}
(Got no Ambien, no Secondal, no genie in a lithium bottle
Just a first aid kit and a suicidal lingerie model
Keep the trunk locked up, rev the engine, hammer the throttle)
{section: Chorus}
There's no getting out of this one
There's no getting out of this
You got a camouflage lover
And a bulletproof kiss
(Way up on the escarpment, on a good day you can see the smokestacks
Down below St Joe's spilling over with heart attacks
Down the east steps Fitzcaraldo covers up your tracks)
{section: Chorus}
And a bulletproof kiss
{section: Intro}
[[E5]You've got those far away eyes
And I've got these radiator blues
Baby, what am I to do?]
{section: Chorus}
[[A]Let's not talk about much tonight
...
Just move to the silence in the lone starlight
...
Hold me by the hands and bring your body closer
Please put your body in my bed
And your pretty little head
Whisper me things you'd never dare
I can take you there
I been waiting too long for the this
The touch of your fingers and your sweet, sweet kiss
Hold me in your gaze until my mind is weak
You are the medicine that I seek
But I won't ever leave you cold
[You've got those far away eyes
Baby, far away eyes
And I've got these radiator blues
Baby, what am I to do?]
([CHORUS])
{section: Intro}
It's a part of this town I despise
But if it should yield but one small, snow-white flower
And one happy tear in your eye
Then let it come down, let it fall, give us rain
And I'll thank the almighty powers
'Cause one precious drop from those glorious pools
You call eyes is all I require]
{section: Chorus}
Annie Lu, Annie Lu
Won't you save me from you
'Cause that's a whole lotta love for one little boy
I'll love you until no more loving can be
Annie Lu, Annie Lu, Annie Lu
[If you should ever just up and go
Won't you spare me the agony of watching you leave?
'Cause my heart might go off like a pistol
And make a dead man out of me]
{section: Chorus}
Annie Lu, won't you bring back my heart?
They're sinking battleships at midnight
We change the channel on a dime
When they break to a commercial
Dress rehearsal in our catatonic prime/crime
They're digging ditches in Zuccoti
We're getting famous by the hour
All our pirates are Johnny, not Somali
trading bad seeds for flowers
Everybody's got a ticket and a backstage pass
Everybody's going somewhere someday
Even the mighty- they won't last-
Night I had a dream
You were there
Weaving through the burrows/burroughs
They're busting unions in Toronto
I'm coming down
From wishful thinking and the like
I'm sober as a judge
They're busting unions in Wisconsin
And praising Jesus in the schools
They keeping science in the basement
{section: Intro}
With her head just so
Turned up unaware
That you're standing there watching her dream
Something frightfully beautiful
I wonder why
It scares me to death
You tell me everything you ever thought about
Love was a lie
(I should be struck dumb)
Happily insane
But the man in my head recommends against
Paving my history
Why can't I take this car
And drive it to Mexico?
We'll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe
Why can't I take this bird
And fly her to Jupiter?
Pit stop in Venus, stare back at the Earth
While she catches her
Sweet soft breath
Why can't I take this car...
Why can't I take this bird...

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Arrangement source for The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss by Whitehorse

{capo: 5}
{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
{section: Intro}
[Am]

...
[I don't have much but I got the good stuff
...
I keep it tucked away where you can find it if you've got the guts
[Dm]Walk with me, walk with me, walk with me, walk
...
I got a girl from the 'burbs who won't talk
I don't have [Am]much but I got the good stuff]

...
(I don't know why but you make me sweat
...
When trouble comes calling, I'm packing my bags for the west
[Dm]I'll give you nothing for nothing if that's what you desire
...
I'll let it cool if you light my fire
[Am]Bumper shine my way home
...
Bumper shine my way home)

{section: Chorus 1}
[C]All the square [G]pegs and [D]all the round [A]holes
[C]Couldn't fit [G]all of the[D] stories yo[A]u told
The [C]pull of a moth to the [G]fire
Your Achilles' de[Am]sire

...
[I don't have much but I am a rich man
...
I got a woman down from the Park Ridge who is finer than sand]
[Dm]Fall with me, f[Dm7M]all with me, fa[Dm7]ll with me
[Dm6]Fall through th[Dm]e waist of [Dm7M]the hourgl[Dm7]ass, f[Dm6]all
[Am][I don't have much but I am a rich man]

A second-hand gypsy is no fading flower
Fingers are frozen in furious power
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire

Cold, cold sweat on the back of my knees
The future runs in on the Assiniboine breeze
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire

All the square pegs and all the round holes
Couldn't fit all of the stories you told
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire

...
The pull of a moth to the fire
Your Achilles' desire [Am7M]

I don't have [Am]much

                             DEVIL'S GOT A GUN

{section: Intro}
Am-E--Am-

[Am]Look out, this thing is gonna [E]blow
I heard it from the people in the [Am]know
There's trouble in the tenements be[E]low
There's fire where the flowers used to [Am]grow

{section: Chorus}
[C]I'm never [G]going[Am] back
I'm running from the [C]sun
Bullets at my [F]heels
The Devil's got a [C]gun
I'm never going home
I'll be the only one
With daylight on my tail
And Heaven on the run

Rain is jumping up into the clouds
A girl has ceased to make her father proud
Lovers wrapped up in cellophane
The bitter fruit has fallen from its prey

{section: Chorus}
[C]Help me, I know not who I [G]see
I'm a [Dm]stranger to the face looking [C]back at me
When a [F]company of sisters is [C]just like any mystery to[G] me
Hold me, I know not who I am
If I'm a woman, you're a creature, not a man
The eyes of a lover- they look like any other to me

It's down to the second hand
The tick-tock is more than you can stand
The grinders and the wheels they never see
We're fighting to the bottom of the deep

{section: Chorus}
Daylight on my tail
And Heaven on the run

                             MISMATCHED EYES (BOAT SONG)

{sot}Simplified intro/verse:
  [A]        [F#m]
e|0-------|0-------|
B|--3/2-3-|--3/2-3-|{eot}

[Is it the [A]list and the sway
...
Is it the roll and the pitch]
[F#m](The drunken Gulf of Mexico
...
Or he seven-year itch)
[I hear the [A]mating calls of fireflies
...
Some celestial blues]
(And they're [F#m]bringing me around again
...
And that's something I can use)
[Now I see] [E]nothing but the water
...
And it's falling from my face

[It is the [G]face] (It is the face)
...
[It is the face] (It is the face)
I want to [D]show you

[Will I remember to remember
That without I'm a shadow]
(Of a drifter and a barfly
And whatever else you had to be)
[It's true I've come around
Now I can even touch my toes]
(And all the running and the talking-
Yeah, now everybody knows)
[You never] speak but I can hear you
As you sing out from your mismatched eyes

[They are the eyes] (They are the eyes)
[They are the eyes]
I will to die with

[We're on a boat out on the ocean
And there's nothing more to share]
(We've gone from one wave to another
And back again a where)
[We go where guitars are hung over
And the songs are fast asleep]
(I feel the flesh wounds in my heart
But they are mine for me to keep)
[In your] pocket or your fist
Or in your mind but they come to you [by your ears]

(They are the ears) [They are the ears]
(They are the ears)
That I will sing to

{section: Intro}
Am--F--Dm--C-G-

[Am]   [I been eyeing up a coalmine baby
[F]   I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and
[Dm]   I been listening to the radio sometimes
[Am]   And it's making my [G]backbone wilt]

[Am]   I been dreaming of the mighty, mighty Red
[F]   And the thatched roof hut that I'd put on it and
[Dm]   You gotta figure there's a local 'round the bend
   With a [C]shattered red barstool an[G]d my name's on it

[C]   Has the record stopped
   [Em]Spinning?
[Dm]   Has the other boot dropped?
   Is my [G]punk flame [F]burning
   [C]Out? [F]   [F]     [C]

I keep my eye upon the Bluejay flying
From your collar to your hipbone baby
I don't expect it to be on you always
But surprise me with it one day maybe

The way you did when I came in from the cold
And nothing on you but a devil-wide grin and
I don't imagine I could tire of the act but/echo
What a lonely, lonely road it's been

{section: Chorus}
[C]   Has the record stopped
   [Em]Spinning?
[Dm]   Has the other boot dropped?
         [G]          [G#] (maybe [A#])
   Is my punk flame burning out?
[C]   And has the band moved on
   And[Em] left me on the farm?
[Dm]   Is my rock 'n' roll nerve all spent
   Just a [G]flaming heart on an [F]old man's arm    [C]        [F]          [F]            [C]

{section: Chorus}
I been eyeing up a coalmine baby
I been eyeing up a Peterbilt truck and
I been listening to the radio sometimes...

A5      0022X0 (or power chord)
D5      X00235 (or power chord)

{section: Intro}
[A] [D]

([A]Cold snap apathy
[D]Killer hypothermic heart)
I [A]read you like calloused Braille
[D]Hieroglyphics in the snow [E]
(We'll get [D]by)

{section: Chorus}
(It's been a) [A]cold [A7]
Cold Ju[D]ly
(It's been a) cold
Cold July

(Breeze past the corridor
Radiator on the fritz)
We walked down to see the melted mess
Snow to slush at the Charleswood Lagoon
(Frozen dry)

{section: Chorus}
[A5](January, February) [Snow drop pickups and _]
[D5](Spring forward, keep me warm) [Sleigh bell forest fire]
[Bm](April shower[E]s fall back down) [In your garden then it'll _ an alibi]
[D](Love letters in the snow)

[A] [A7M]

[F#m]Oh, for the [D7]love of it[F#m]
Or just the [D7]hell of it [F#m]
Just sink your [F#m6]claws in it
[A]Set me on [D]fire

(CHORUS)

Since this song is electronic, these chords are approximations.


{section: Intro}
[E5]

[Em]Jane, she gets so close
...
Jane, she gets so close
[Em]Jane, you [Em7]know, she'll[Em7] never le[Em6]t go

If you [Am]want her
...
You can have her
...
It don't matter
She's a wrecking [Em]ball

Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you get so hot
Jane, you know, you're gonna get caught

[C]One more last clean [Em]slate
[F]Count your pennies, [G]say your[G#] prayers
[C]Everybody [Em]burns
[F]Crawl through all the [G#]endless layers

Jane don't lose your jam
Don't underestimate your hand
Play the ace, don't show it on your face

Keep the jack
You're the queen
Take the chips
To the cash machine

Jane you hurt so good
Like all the B-movie harlots would
Play the part, take the body, not the heart

Face down in the mire
Hidden with the hearts for hire
Everybody knows
But you and it shows

{sot}Actual verse parts:
A|--------2-------|--------2---3---|
E|0-----0-----3---|0-----0---------|{eot}

{sot}D|2-----2-1-----1-|0-----0---------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|--------4-----4-|0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~--0-1-2-------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|--3---------3---|{eot}


(I'm not y[C]ours
You are m[E]ine
Let that sink [Am]in [F7M]
Like the Mary [C]Rose [G]
She went down
With a heavy load
But who is this fading flower?
Mm-mm)

{section: Chorus}
Come to [C]life
In the [E]spring
I was [Am]shaking
from your [F7M]sting
You should know
In like lamb
Out like a lion
(I came in)
Like a lamb
Out like a lion

[C]---

We grew up
So we were told
Time just leaves us
Out in the cold
Seasons change
I'm getting warm
A feline in mohair
Mm-mm

{section: Chorus}
(CHORUS)

(I came in)
Like a lamb
Out like a lion
(x2)


{section: Intro}
[Em] [G] [A] [C]

(There's no [Em]glamour in the [G]hammer but they[A] sell it at th[C]e Big 'n' Tall
[Em] [G] [A] [C]
They'll fit a [Em]king like a [G]prince in a[A] joker's pair of covera[C]lls
[Em] [G] [A] [C]
When your [C]motorchair stalls tell the [G]cop you've seen it all)[B]

There's no getting out of [Em]this one [Em7]     [Em6]
There's no [C]getting out of [Em]this [Em7]     [Em6]         [C]

(Got no Ambien, no Secondal, no genie in a lithium bottle
Just a first aid kit and a suicidal lingerie model
Keep the trunk locked up, rev the engine, hammer the throttle)

{section: Chorus}
There's no getting out of this one
There's no getting out of this
You got a camouflage lover
And a bulletproof kiss

[Am]--[D]-[F]-

(Way up on the escarpment, on a good day you can see the smokestacks
Down below St Joe's spilling over with heart attacks
Down the east steps Fitzcaraldo covers up your tracks)

{section: Chorus}
And a bulletproof kiss


{section: Intro}
[E5] [E]

[[E5]You've got those far away eyes
Baby, far away [E]eyes
And I've got these radiator blues
Baby, what am I to do?]

{section: Chorus}
[[A]Let's not talk about much tonight
...
Just move to the silence in the lone starlight
...
Hold me by the hands and bring your body closer
I want the heat, I want the [B]roller coaster]

Please put your body in my bed
And your pretty little head
Whisper me things you'd never dare
I can take you there

I been waiting too long for the this
The touch of your fingers and your sweet, sweet kiss
Hold me in your gaze until my mind is weak
You are the medicine that I seek

[G]Where have you been, baby?
[C]Off to the far side and [D]sitting on the beach
In some [Em]faraway land that never
[C]When [Ends]you [G]coming back, baby?
[C]I got the radiator [D]blues
            [Em]             [C]--[D]-[D#]-
But I won't ever leave you cold

[You've got those far away eyes
Baby, far away eyes
And I've got these radiator blues
Baby, what am I to do?]

([CHORUS])

[D]* (Dsus2/5+)   XX0330

{section: Intro}
[D] [Gm] [D] [D]

[The[D] clouds- they moved[Gm] in on th[D]e hou[D]r
It's a part of this town I despise
But if it should yield but one small, snow-white flower
And one happy tear in your eye

Then let it come down, let it fall, give us rain
And I'll thank the almighty powers
'Cause one precious drop from those glorious pools
You call eyes is all I require]

{section: Chorus}
Annie Lu, Annie Lu
Won't you save me from you
'Cause that's a whole lotta love for one little boy
I'll love you until no more loving can be

Annie Lu, Annie Lu, Annie Lu

[If you should ever just up and go
Won't you spare me the agony of watching you leave?
'Cause my heart might go off like a pistol
And make a dead man out of me]

{section: Chorus}
Annie Lu, won't you bring back my heart?

They're busting unions in [Am]Wisconsin
We got mojitos by the [C]pool
We got a talent for dis[Dm]traction
No reaction to the [Am]colic and the [E]cruel

They're sinking battleships at midnight
We change the channel on a dime
When they break to a commercial
Dress rehearsal in our catatonic prime/crime

Time is moving [F]on
There's no marching [C]band
Just some fuzzed out [Dm]credits, names of strangers,
And a [Am]nightcap in your [E]hair

They're digging ditches in Zuccoti
We're getting famous by the hour
All our pirates are Johnny, not Somali
trading bad seeds for flowers

Everybody's got a ticket and a backstage pass
Everybody's going somewhere someday
Even the mighty- they won't last-

Night I had a dream
You were there
Weaving through the burrows/burroughs
Down the high line with [E]daisies in your hair

They're busting unions in Toronto

I'm coming down
From wishful thinking and the like
I'm sober as a judge
But the jury's out [E]drinking toni[F]ght

They're busting unions in Wisconsin
And praising Jesus in the schools
They keeping science in the basement
Speaking tongues and making [E]fools


{section: Intro}
[Em9]  [F#]  [Am] [D] [Em]
[Em]  [F#7]  [Am] [D] [Em]

(Sometimes I [Em]just
I can't help but [F#]think
There's a par[Am]ticular way [D]
For an angel to [Em]sleep)

With her head just so
Turned up unaware
That you're standing there watching her dream
Something frightfully beautiful

[Em9]

Why can't I [G]take this car
And drive it to [D]Mexico?
We'll rob a [Am]Texaco in Santa [F]Fe
Where we'll run out of [Em]gas

[F]

I wonder why
It scares me to death
You tell me everything you ever thought about
Love was a lie

(I should be struck dumb)
Happily insane
But the man in my head recommends against
Paving my history

Why can't I take this car
And drive it to Mexico?
We'll rob a Texaco in Santa Fe
Where we'll run out of [G]gas
Why can't I take this bird
And fly her to Jupiter?
Pit stop in Venus, stare back at the Earth
While she catches her
[Em]    [D]    [G]      [E]-[Am]--[D]--
Sweet soft breath

            [Em]   [D]    [G]-[E]-[Am]--[D]--
Why can't I take this car...
Why can't I take this bird...

(End on [Am])

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