Destroyer - Blue Flower / Blue Flame Tabs

Blue Flower / Blue Flame by Destroyer
Trouble in Dreams, 2008


Play with Capo on 4th fret. All chords and tabs relative to tuning.

Chords:
F - 133211
G - 355433
E - 022100
A – x02220
D – xx0232
C – x32010

VERSE 1:
F       G              E              A
  Okay, fine, even the sky looks like wine,
    F                 D 
And everywhere I turn there’s 
F               G    E                 A
  A new face in town, stuck inside the well – 
F                  D
  Fresh hells to attend to...

CHORUS: (play with following RIFF in background:)
  F        C        F        C
e|8-7-5-3-|--------|0h1-0---|--------|
B|--------|----1---|--------|----1---|
G|--------|0h2-----|--------|0h2-----|
D|--------|--------|--------|--------|
A|--------|--------|--------|--------|
E|--------|--------|--------|--------|
     F           C          F  C
Blue Flower / Blue Flame – 
  F                C                    F  F
A woman by another name is not a woman.

VERSE 2: 
F            G   E           A
  Don't know why, don't know when, 
    F                   D 
a cathedral sick of the sky again says to it – 
F                 G                  E                 A
  "Oh, please not now! Will you just look at the time - it's standing still!” 
F                        D
Somewhere applause falls dead on the hillside...

CHORUS:
     F           C           F                C
Blue Flower / Blue Flame – a woman by another name is not a woman. 
     F               C             
I’ll tell you what I mean by that.  
F                    C                 G F
Maybe not in seconds flat, maybe not today...

BRIDGE:
G E F
E F
G G F (strum muted strings) G G F (strum muted strings) G G

SOLO: (play on acoustic piano in octaves; play over VERSE 1 chords)
  F        G        E        A        F        D
e|0-1-3-0-|--1-3---|--------|--------|--------|--------|
B|--------|------0-|--1-3-0-|2-0-----|--------|--------|
G|--------|--------|--------|----2---|--------|--------|
D|--------|--------|--------|------2-|0----2-0|4-------|
A|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
E|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
  F        G        E        A        F        D
e|0-1-3-5-|--0-1---|--------|--------|--------|--------|
B|--------|------0-|--1-3-0-|2-0-----|--------|--------|
G|--------|--------|--------|----2---|--------|--------|
D|--------|--------|--------|------2-|0----2-0|--------|
A|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|0-------|
E|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

CHORUS:
     F           C           F                C
Blue Flower / Blue Flame – a woman by another name is not a woman.  
     F               C             
I’ll tell you what I mean by that. 
F                    C               
Maybe not in seconds flat, maybe never. 
F              C                      F             
  A gray ashen sadness rises like the sun, oh well. 
       C                 F            C      F         C
It was time I decided to try this hotel: her world...

F C F C

CHORUS:
F                     C                         F           C
  (Tulip has an inner animal, she’s in it for a good time.   
F                 C               F                 C
I was on the outs for a while but now things are all right. 
  F             C                 F             C
I gave you a flower because foxes travel light 
      F                          C
And a penny for your thoughts was never enough – 
F                C
  Your head gets filled with that stuff
F                C                F          C
  Your head gets filled with that stuff...)

OUTRO: (play with RIFF)
F C x8

End on: F