Mercury

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  • Guitar 1 is an acoustic, tuned to open Eb (Eb Bb Eb G Bb Eb)
    Guitar 2 is a mandolin, tuned down 1/2 step (Gb Db Ab Eb)
     
  • Note: Watch the time signature here. The main riff is in 14/8, which
    I think of as a measure of 6 followed by a measure of 8 (as
    I indicate below). But, the rest of the song is in 8/8, and the
  • shifts from 14/8 to 8/8 and back again are subtle.
     
    Intro and main riff:
  •  
    | |-----0-----------|----0--------------|
    | |--------0--2/3\2-|-------0-----0-----|
  • |14|-----------2/3\2-|-0--------------0--| Guitar 1 (all of guitar 1
    | 8|-----------2/3\2-|-0-----------------| is played with a slide)
    | |-----------2/3\2-|-0-----------------|
  • | |--0--------------|-0--------0--------|
    (6/8) (8/8)
     
  • Verse: (guitar 1 plays main riff over Eb)
    | |/5--------5--------|
    | |/5--5-----5--------|
  • |8|/5-----5--5--5-----| Guitar 1 plays this for the Ab chord
    |8|/5--------5-----5--| (note the change to 8/8)
    | |/5--------5--------|
  • | |/5--------5--------|
     
     
  • Eb
    She is trapped inside a month of grey
    And they take a little every day
  • Ab
    She is a victim of her own responses
    Eb
  • Shackled to a heart that wants to settle
    And the runs away
     
  • Chorus:
    Bb Ab
    | |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|
  • | |/7--7-----7--------|/5--5-----5--------|
    |8|/7-----7--7--7-----|/5-----5--5--5-----| Guitar 1
    |8|/7--------7-----7--|/5--------5-----5--| (again in 8/8)
  • | |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|
    | |/7--------7--------|/5--------5--------|
     
  • Bb Ab
    It's a sin to be fading endlessly
    Eb (guitar 1 plays main riff)
  • Yeah, but she's alright with me
     
    She is leaving on a walkaway
  • She is leaving me in disarray
    In the absence of a place to be
    She stands there looking back at me
  • Hesitates, and then turns away
    She'll change so suddenly
    She's just like mercury
  • Yeah, but she's alright with me
     
    Bridge:
  • |/12--|
    |/12--|
    |/12--| Guitar 1 plays this at the end of the chorus, and then
  • |/12--| plays the main riff over the bridge
    |/12--|
    |/12--|
  •  
    |------------------------------|
    |--7--7--7--7--9--9b(10)r9--9--| Guitar 2 (trem. picked)
  • |------------------------------|
    |------------------------------|
     
  • (Guitar 1 plays last 8/14 of main riff once)
     
    Keep some sorrow in your
  • hearts and minds
    For the things that die before their time
    For the restlessly abandoned homes
  • The tired and weary rambler's bones
    And stay beside me where I lie
    She's entwined in me
  • Crazy as can be
    Yeah, but she's alright with me
     
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