Smoke Signals - Phoebe Bridgers

Version 5 of 8
Capo: Fret 3
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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This song relies a lot on bass notes. So here are some tips to follow: 
there’s a walk down on the first string (bass E string, for standard tuning) from 3 to 2 to 0.
If you listen to the original song, you can get the rhythm from there. 
For the ending, just start to fade out around (x3) of the Outro. 
Also, I pretty much wrote this tab by ear because I didn’t like how the other tabs sounded, 
so let me know if there’s a chord I should change.

[Intro]
        (x2)

[Verse 1]
            
I went with yo

            
u up to the pl

ace you grew u

p and
        
We spent a wee

         
k in the cold
            
Just long enou

      
gh to Walden i

t with you
        
Any longer, it

              
 would've got 


old
         
Singing "Ace o

f Spades" when

 Lemmy died
            
But nothing's 

              
changed, L.A.'

       
s alright
            
I'm sleeping i

              
n my bed again

       
, and getting 

in my head
          
And then, walk

            
 around the re

        
servoir

[Chorus]
         
You..., you mu

          
st've been loo

        
king for me
            
Sending smoke.


.. signals
       
Pelicans circl


ing
            
Burning trash 

       
out on the bea

ch

[Post-Chorus]
      

[Verse 2]
            
One of your ey

      
es is always h

alf-shut
          
Something happ

            
ened when you 

       
were a kid
            
I didn't know 

             
you then and I


'll never unde

rstand
        
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'll creep 

        
you out until 

you're dead


[Chorus]
         
You..., you mu

          
st've been loo

        
king for me
            
Sending smoke.


.. signals
       
Pelicans circl


ing
            
Burning trash 

       
out on the bea

ch

[Post-Chorus]
      

[Verse 3]
             
I want to live

       
 at the Holida

y Inn
        
Where somebody

              
 else makes th

  
e bed
             
We'll watch TV

           
 while the lig

hts on the str

eet
        
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 shotgun, spe


eding, 'cause 

fuck the cops

[Chorus]
         
You..., you mu

          
st've been loo

        
king for me
            
Sending smoke.


.. signals
       
Pelicans circl


ing
            
Burning trash 

       
out on the bea

ch

[Post-Chorus]
      

[Verse 4]
            
I buried a hat

            
chet, it's com

ing up lavende

r
        
The future's u

              
nwritten; the 


past is a corr

idor
            
I'm at the exi

   
t, looking bac

k through the 

hall
        
You are anonym

     
ous, I am a co

ncrete wall...

[Outro]
       (x4)

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