Nobodys Empire Chords

Tabbed by nilsus
 
Belle & Sebastian - Nobody's Empire
 
Capo on 5th fret. (Easiest way to play it...)
Transpose +5 for original without capo
 
 
Intro: C  G  Am  F    x4
 
C                     F       C
Lying on my bed I was reading french
          Am        G            F  C
With the light too bright for my senses
C                                F       C
From this hiding place, life was way too much
         Am      G              F  C
It was loud and rough round the edges
      G                     F
So I faced the wall when an old man called
        G                   F    C
Out of dreams that I would die there
       G                      F
But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings
         G              F  C
And you had a different idea
 
C                         F        C
I was like a child, I was light as straw
         Am       G      F   C
When my father lifted me up there
C                             F          C
Took me to a place where they checked my body
    Am       G           F   C
My soul was floating in thin air
   G                      F
I clung to the bed, and I clung to the past
      G                    F    C
And I clung to the welcome darkness
            G                          F
But at the end of the night, there's a green green light
           G              F  C
It's the quiet before the madness
             Dm
There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell
      F                                               C                      G
She put out her arm and she touched me when I was in hell      when I was in hell
 
C                         F      C
Someone sang a song and I sang along
         Am       G            F    C
Cause I knew the words from my childhood
C                        F      C
Intellect, ambition they fell away
      Am       G          F   C
They locked me up for my own good
      G                     F
But I didn't mind cause the silence was kind
         G             F   C
And you spoke to me in whispers
                G                       F
There was the sound of the wind in the cold cold dawn
         G             F   C
And the quiet hum of a business
        Dm
Let me dangle a while in this waiting room
        F                                            C
I don't need to go I don't need to know what you're doing           
    G
to know what you're doing
 
 
C   G   Am   D/F#   F    F    C    G   x2
 
C                         F      C             Am       G        F   C
Lying on my side you were half awake and your face was tired and crumpled
C                     F        C                Am    G         F   C
If I had a camera I'd snap you now cos there's beauty in every stumble
        G               F
We are out of practise we're out of sight
        G               F  C
On the edge of nobody's empire
       G                    F
If we live by books and we live by hope
          G                   F   C
Does that make us targets for gunfire?
 
C                          F         C
Now I look at you you're a mother of two
          Am    G   F  C
You're a quiet revolution
C                               F         C
Marching with the crowd singing dirty and loud
        Am        G    F  C
For the people's emancipation
      G            F
Did I do ok, did I pave the way
      G                    F  C
Was I strong when you were wanting
       G                      F
I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke
         G               F   C
Who was stern but never daunting
        Dm
And he told me to push and he made me feel well
        F                                           C                        G
And he told me to leave that vision of hell to the dying        oh to the dying
 
C   G   Am   D/F#   F    F    C    G   x2
 
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