#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------------# #This guitar tab is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Band: Weakerthans Song: Reconstruction Site *Capo on the 2nd Fret (II) *All tabs relative to capo *Transition after the open F# is quick to the next note Intro e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|-----4-----4-----4----4---------x2-----------------------------------------| D|------4---2-4--4--4--4-4---------------------------------------------------| A|---2----0-----2-----2------------------------------------------------------| E|-0-------------------------------------------------------------------------| strum these more than just playing them as show, but the ratio is 1:1:2 F# B7 C#7 e|---0------0--------0-------------------------------------------------------| B|---0------0--------0-------------------------------------------------------| G|---1-x4---2-x4-----4-x8----------------------------------------------------| D|---2------2--------4-------------------------------------------------------| A|---2------0--------2-------------------------------------------------------| E|---0------X--------X-------------------------------------------------------| Verse (Palm Muted) F# B7 C#7 Well I'm Lost, I'm afraid, a rope tying down a leaky boat F# B7 C#7 To the roof of car on a road in the dark and its snowing F# B7 C#7 If I'm more than a means less, last call for happiness F# B7 C#7 I'm the dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing F# B7 C#7 I'm a float in a summer parade F# B7 C#7 Up the street in a town that you were born in F# B7 C#7 With the girl at the top wearing tool, and miss somewhere F# B7 C#7 sash, waving like the queen. (medium pace slide) e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| D|------------------------------------------------7-------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| Chorus Open Chords F# B7 C#7 Well beauty's just another word, I'm never certain how it's spelled F# B7 C#7 Go tell the nurse to turn the TV back on F# B7 C#7 Throw away my misery, it never meant that much to me F# B7 C#7 It never sent a get well card e|-------------------------------3--0---3h2h0~~~-----------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| Verse (2) F# B7 C#7 And I'm broke like a bad joke somebody's uncle told F# B7 C#7 At a wedding reception in Nineteen Seventy Two F# B7 C#7 Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair F# B7 C#7 Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed F# B7 C#7 And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home F# B7 C#7 And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home F# B7 C#7 And he thought about how everyone dies someday. F# B7 C#7 And when tomorrow gets here where will yesterday be? F# B7 C#7 And he fell asleep in his brand new winter coat. e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| D|-----------------------------------------------------7--------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| F# B7 C#7 Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline F# B7 C#7 and all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms F# B7 C#7 Disassembles my dispair, never took me anywhere F# B7 C#7 It never once bought me a drink