Smoke Signals - Phoebe Bridgers

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Capo: Fret 1
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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Based off this live version: https://youtu.be/Ul4DV8LKj18
Phoebe plays this song using an alternate tuning, this is a simplified version for standard tuning.
If you want the chord names to be relative to the capo transpose +1.
I used slash chord names for some of the chords for convenience as it makes sense in this context, better 
fitting ones are in the brackets.

Capo: 1st fret 

Bb/F:   0 x 2 2 2 x
Gm7:    2 x 2 2 2 x
Bb/C:   x 2 2 2 2 x  (C9sus4)
Bb/Eb:  x 5 2 2 2 x  (Ebmaj7sus2)
Bb:     x 0 2 2 2 x
Bb/D:   x 4 2 2 2 x

There are riffs she occasionally adds during the verses and instrumental parts:
Between Bb/F and Gm7, play 0-4-2 on the low E string.
Between Bb/C and Bb/Eb, play 2-4-0 on the A string.


[Intro]
      
      

[Verse 1]
  
I went with yo

u up to
    
The place you 

grew up in
          
We spent a wee

         
k in the cold

Just long enou

gh to

walden it with

 you
          
Any longer, it

              
 would have go

  
t old
        
Singing "Ace o

f Spades" when

 Lemmy died
           
But nothing's 

              
changed, L.A.'

        
s all right
          
Sleeping in my

              
 bed again, an

  
d getting in m

y head
          
And then walk 

           
around the res


ervoir

[Chorus]
       
You - ou, you 

          
must have been

         
 looking for m


e
          
Sending smo - 


oke signals
       
Pelicans circl


ing
           
Burning trash 

       
out on the bea


ch

[Interlude]
      

[Verse 2]

One of your ey

es is

Always half-sh

ut
          
Something happ

              
ened when you 

       
were a kid
  
I didn't know 

you then
         
And I'll never

 understand
          
Why it feels l

      
ike I did
          
"How Soon Is N

           
ow" in an '80s

 sedan
          
You slept insi

         
de of it becau

se your dad
          
Lived in a cam

              
pground in the

 
 back of a van
          
You said that 

              
song will cree

          
p you out unti


l you're dead

[Chorus]
       
You - ou, you 

          
must have been

         
 looking for m


e
          
Sending smo - 


oke signals
       
Pelicans circl


ing
           
Burning trash 

       
out on the bea


ch

[Interlude]
      

[Verse 3]

I want to live

 at
    
The Holiday In

n
          
Where somebody

              
 else makes th

  
e bed

We'll watch TV

 while
    
The lights on 

the street
          
Put all the st

       
ars to death
          
It's been on m

y mind since B

owie died
           
Just checking 

              
out to hide fr

    
om life
          
And all of our

           
 problems, I'm

 gonna solve '

em
          
With you ridin

            
g shot-gun, sp

/
eeding, 'cause

 fuck the cops

[Chorus]
       
You - ou, you 

          
must have been

         
 looking for m


e
          
Sending smo - 


oke signals
       
Pelicans circl


ing
           
Burning trash 

       
out on the bea


ch

[Interlude]
      

[Verse 4]
  
I buried a hat

chet
     
It's coming up

 lavender
    
The future's u

nwritten
    
The past is a 

corridor
          
I'm at the exi

  
t looking back

 through the h

all

You are anonym

ous

I am a concret

e wall

[Outro]
      
      

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