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Chords for E.M.P.T.Y. by the Clientele

posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 7:04 AM by mcfunley



I couldn't find any chords for this band anywhere online, so I figured out a few myself. This is E.M.P.T.Y. from Strange Geometry (as of right now someone has an mp3 of it up here). I am leaving out a considerable amount of flourish, which is pretty easy--just listen to the record. I am also not transcribing the solo, which I recommend you fake while halfway to drunk.
Chords:
       E  A  D  G  B   e
Bsus4: X  X  X  11 12  12
Esus4: X  X  9  9  10  X  (or XXX455)

Intro:
B E A E :|

B        E      A       E
When I'm riding home at night,

    B     E     A     E
now I get in so tired

B      E      A         E
to the saws & bows that spell out

B   E   A   E
E.M.P.T.Y.


B   E       F#m       E
But driving west now, half past

B     E          F#m
five, my skin is cut
E            B
my hands are knives
        E  F#m  E B
I could be anyone alive
    E            A   E
but I just can't fit
         B   E       A    E
and it's too late to quit


[Alternate between Bsus4 and B here]

Bsus4                              B
        When the night it comes to me
                          E
I wonder if the days I've lived through count


Bsus4                                B
        With the world strung like a rosary
                     E
through faces moving in the crowd



Esus4             E            B
      What is the colour & the number
E
when happiness begins?
Esus4         E        
     When the knight waits in the
B       A                  E
laurels hesitating


[This would be a good time to start playing
the violin if you have a third arm]

C#           B                 
   I found a clarity I'd never known
   E                     
in fag-end weeks before I left for
A          
school
    C#            
the darkness in the pylons
      B      
& the smoke & creosote
               E             A
cancelling the faces that we knew

B E A E :|

[Solo not transcribed]

[Additional verses follow the opening]

Did they forget the light inside
your eyes?
Those simple words,
those lovers' signs?
The hand is dealt, the cards are
played but I just can't fit
& it's too late to quit

I saw them & I knew them all
inside a sheet of flame
I saw them & I knew them all
inside a sheet of flame

When I'm riding home at night
now I get in so tired
to the saws & bows that spell out
E.M.P.T.Y.
E.M.P.T.Y.
E.M.P.T.Y.

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