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CARRION - British Sea Power
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Tabbed by: Jonathan Migliori
Email: stratman13@gmail.com
A beautiful song, with some close, but not quite there tabs. I hope you enjoy it.
Tuning: Standard
Guitar I: Lead (Noble)
Guitar II: Rhythm (Yan)
Chords (I prefer the open chords, but barre chords can be used as well)
[G] [D] [Bm] [C] [Cmaj7] [Em]
e|------3-------2-------2-------0--------0-----------0-----------------------|
B|------0-------3-------3-------1--------0-----------0-----------------------|
G|------0-------2-------4-------0--------0-----------0-----------------------|
D|------0-------0-------4-------2--------2-----------2-----------------------|
A|------2---------------2-------3--------3-----------2-----------------------|
E|------3--------------------------------------------0-----------------------|
Main Riff:
[C] [G] [Em]
e|------------------------------ ------------------7-5-----------------------|
B|------------------------------ --------------5-8-----8---------------------|
G|---4^5~4^5~4^5~4^5~4^5~-2--0-- x6 --/7-4-7-4-7----------------------------|
D|------------------------------ --------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------ --------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------ --------------------------------------------|
The first phrase is played over a different chord after every repeat. First over C, then
then G, then Em, then C, then D
Verse 1:
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7 (hyphen means quick change)
Carrion, inside of your heart
[G]Under the brine[D], [Bm]you won't notice the d[C-Cmaj7]ark[C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7]
[G]Can stone and steel[D], and horses' he[Bm]els ever explai[C-Cmaj7]n the way[C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7] you feel
[G]From Scapa Fl[D]ow to Rotherh[Bm]ithe, I felt the la[C-Cmaj7]pping of [C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7]an ebbing tide
Bridge:
[G] [D] [Bm] [C]
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------4^5------4^5------4^5-2-0-----------------------------------|
D|--0h2------0h2------0h2-------------0-4^5----0-4^5-----0-4^5-4/5/7|
A|----------------------------------2-------2---------2---------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7 (Notes and chords change together)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-5-4--5-4--5-4-----------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus:
[C]Oh the heavy water, [D]how it enfolds
[G]The song, the spray, the gorgeous [Em]undertow
[C]Always, always, always the[D] sea
[G]Brilliantine mort[Em]ality
Main Riff (Repeat first phrase only twice)
Verse 2:
[G]So irrigate your [D]heart [Bm]until you know you're [C-Cmaj7]complete[C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7]
[G]And your draped in k[D]elp, [Bm]below by 8,000 [C-Cmaj7]feet[C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7]
[G]"My soul," she crie[D]d, "I thought you'd [Bm]died amid fumes of [C-Cmaj7]formaldeh[C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7]yde"
[G]You have been [D]gone for so [Bm]long. I felt the l[C-Cmaj7]apping of[C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7] an ebbing tide
Bridge 2 (with lyrics):
[G] [D] [Bm]My love, I felt th[C]e lapping of an ebbing tide!
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------4^5------4^5------4^5-2-0-----------------------------------|
D|--0h2------0h2------0h2-------------0-4^5----0-4^5-----0-4^5-4/5/7|
A|----------------------------------2-------2---------2---------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7 (Notes and chords change together)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-5-4--5-4--5-4------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus
Main Riff
Solo:
e|-----7/12-12-12-12-12-10-10-10-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------------|
B|-----5h8-5h8-5h8/10^11^11^11^11^11^11^11|
G|----------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------|
Interlude:
[C]When this corpus christic i[D]sle became a [G]landed ocean [Em]blue
[C]Again she cried, "You turne[D]d my eye"
[G]At mentions of "no ma[Em]tter why"
(First phrase of Main Riff repeated for the rest of Interlude and First Chorus)
[C]And in the end an [D]August sun
[G]Of one by one it [Em]blew
[C]Until the devil screamed in the ev[D]ermore
[G]In envy of the grace [Em]we saw
[G]The sound? (Chorus starts here making the rest of the Interlude lyrics unintelligible)
Chorus:
[C]Oh the heavy water, [D]how it enfolds
[G]The song, the spray, the gorgeous [Em]undertow
[C]Always, always, always the[D] sea
[G]Brilliantine mort[Em]ality
[C]Oh the heavy water, [D]how it enfolds
[G]The song, the spray, the gorgeous [Em]undertow
[C]Always, always, always the[D] sea
G (Guitar stops)
Brilliantine mortality
In summation:
Main Riff
Verse
Bridge
Chorus
Main Riff (Shortened)
Verse
Bridge 2
Chorus
Main Riff
Solo
Interlude
Chorus (x2)
Note: There is a quick chord from Guitar I after the first and third lines of the
I don't know what it is. Also, The lyrics of the interlude are hard to distinguish, so those
my approximations. Enjoy.
| ^ bend
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
