Smoke Signals - Phoebe Bridgers
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Capo: Fret 1
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
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]