Songnotes
the hand-crafted music library of @davidpots
Intro
C ... Em ... F ... G ...Verse
C You told us that Em We were too young F Now that night's closing in G And in the half light... we run Lock us up safe And hide the key But the night tears us loose And in the half light... we're free Strange how the half light Can make a place new You can't recognize me And I can't recognize you C We run through the streets Em That we know so well F And the houses hide so muchRefrain 1
Dm We're in the half light G None of us can tell G7 C G They hide the ocean in a shell G C G ...The ocean in a shellRefrain 2
F ...Our heads are just houses Dm ...Without enough windows F They say you... hear human voices G7 C G But they... only... echo C G They only echo C G They only echo C G ...Only echo C We are not listening... G ...We are on the streets C We are not listening... G ...We are on the streets
Here are two different ways to play each of the chords used in this song. It is up to you to put them together in a way that does the song justice.
e-|---0----3---|---0----7-----|---1----8-----|---3----3----|---1---5----- B-|---1----5---|---0----8-----|---1----10----|---0----3----|---2---6----- G-|---0----5---|---0----9-----|---2----10----|---0----4----|---3---7----- D-|---2----5---|---2----9-----|---3----10----|---0----5----|---0---7----- A-|---3----3---|---2----7-----|---3----8-----|---2----5----|-------5----- E-|------------|---0----------|---1----------|---3----3----|------------- C Em F G Dm
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| Dm . . . | . . . . | G . . . | G7 . . . | | C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . | | C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . |
| F . . . | . . . . | Dm . . . | . . . . | | F . . . | . . . . | G . . . | G7 . . . |
| C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . | | C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . | | C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . | | C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . |
| C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . | | C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . | | C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . | | C . . . | . . . . | G . . . | . . . . |
Song: Half Light I
Artist: Arcade Fire
Album: The Suburbs
Year: 2010
Label: Merge
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Here's a list of the 173 songs I've added to the site since December 2012. Each song was added by me personally.
Songs are grouped by the year they were released.
My name is David Potsiadlo, and I created Songnotes to share my collection of guitar tabs, chords, and lyrics for my favorite songs.
Since I started playing guitar over 10 years ago, I've often been frustrated by the preponderance of mediocre and incomplete song tabs littered across the internet. To combat this, I started keeping my own collection of notes for each song I learn -- always taking the extra time to make sure accuracy and completeness are never compromised. Years later, my collection grew to the point where I knew I had to share it online with fellow aspiring musicians.
In December 2012, I began designing & developing a website that became Songnotes. Here, I share my personal collection of hand-crafted music notation with all those online. I hope you enjoy.
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