Smoke Signals - Phoebe Bridgers
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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
Artist: Phoebe Bridgers
Song: Smoke Signals
NOTE: I've made this chord chart for myself and for the folks who
1) own a capo,
2) are gonna sing it in a lower (or higher) key,
3) don't want to use Phoebe's alternate tuning, but
4) do want easy fingering patterns.
I've studied the excelent tab version that's here in UG
(https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/phoebe-bridgers/smoke-signals-tabs-2018777),
then got the album's version into Audacity and altered the pitch half a step,
so the recording would match my guitar's tuning (Eb). I think I was able to get
everything as right as I possibly could.
You can either play it using strumming or fingerpicking. If you chose the
second option and also have your guitar tuned in D, you'd be able to
generate fairly the same notes of the original recording, without much effort.
UPDATE: I'Be just recorded this exact version, if you guys
wanna check it out: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cav08PPpjBQ
[CHORDS]
G6add11: 320010
Am: x02210
D7sus2: xx0210
F7+* (F7+omit3): xx3x10 ... F7+ (xx3210) or F7+sus2 (xx3010) also sound good
[CHORD SEQUENCES]
*:
*:
[Intro]
(x2)
*
[Verse]
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've got o
ld
Singing "Ace o
f Spades" when
Lemmy died
But nothing's
changed
L.A.'s all rig
ht
I'm sleeping i
n my bed again
And getting in
my head and t
hen
Walk around th
e reservoir
[Chorus]
You,
You must've be
en looking for
me
Sending smoke
signals
Pelicans circl
ing
Burning trash
out on
the beach
[Instrumental]
*
[Verse]
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 unde
rstand
Why it feels l
ike I did
"How Soon Is N
ow?" in an eig
hties sedan,
You slept insi
de of it, beca
use your dad
Lived in a cam
pground in the
back of a van
, you said
That song will
creep you out
until you're
dead
[Chorus]
And you,
Must've been l
ooking for me
Sending smoke
signals
Pelicans circl
ing
Burning trash
out on
the beach
[Instrumental]
* *
[Verse]
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
Speeding 'caus
e fuck the cop
s
[Chorus]
You,
You must've be
en looking for
me
Sending smoke
signals
Pelicans circl
ing
Burning trash
out on
the beach
[Instrumental]
*
[Verse]
I buried a hat
chet
It's coming up
lavender,
The future's u
nwritten, the
past is a corr
idor
I'm at the exi
t
Looking back t
hrough the hal
l
You are anonym
ous, I am a co
ncrete wall
[Outro]
(x4)