Recovering the Satellites

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:59:24 -0800

From: "Michael A. Mazur" mmazur@WPI.EDU

Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "Recovering the Satellites"

Tab: "Recovering the Satellites," Counting Crows

Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)

All guitars are tuned down 1/2 step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)

Intro: guitar 1, slight distortion

A G D

e|--------------------------|--------------------------|
B|-----2--x-----------------|-----3-----3-----3--3-----|
G|-----2--x--2-----0--------|--0--0--x--2--2--2--2--2--|
D|--2--2--x--2--2--2--2-----|--0--0--x--4--4--4--4--4--|
A|--0--0-----0--0--0--0--0--|--------------------------|
E|--------------------------|--------------------------|

A D

e|--------------------------|--------------|
B|-----2--x-----------------|--3--------3--|
G|-----2--x--2-----0--------|--2--------2--|
D|--2--2--x--2--2--2--2-----|--4--------4--|
A|--0--0-----0--0--0--0--0--|--------------|
E|--------------------------|--------------|

Verse: guitar 1 plays the A D progression with the same

rhythmic feel as in the intro (without the G)

A D

Gonna get back to basics

Guess I'll start it up again

I'm fallin' from the ceiling

* - Gtr. 2 enters w/ wah, plays fill 1

You're falling from the sky now and then

e|--9--\----|
B|--10-\----|
G|-------\--| Fill 1 (guitar 2 plays this where marked by the *)
D|-------\--|
A|----------|
E|----------|

From this point on, throughout the verses, gtr. 2 plays this

over the A D progression:

e|--------------|-----------|
B|--------2-----|-----3-----|
G|-----2-----2--|--------2--|
D|--------------|--0--------|
A|--0-----------|-----------|
E|--------------|-----------|

Maybe you were shot down in pieces

Maybe I slipped in between

But we were gonna be the wildest people they ever hoped to see

Just you and me

Guitar 1 plays A D twice more, while guitar 2 plays this:

e|--9------9------9h10h12--|--9------9------9h10h12--|
B|-----10-----10-----------|-----10-----10-----------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------| Fill 2
D|-------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-------------------------|-------------------------|
e|--9------9------9h10h12--|--10h12--12--12--12--12--12p10p9--|
B|-----10-----10-----------|----------------------------------|
G|-------------------------|----------------------------------|
D|-------------------------|----------------------------------|
A|-------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|-------------------------|----------------------------------|

Chorus:

E D E D

So why'd you come home to this sleepless town

It's a lifetime commitment

Recovering the satellites

All anybody really wants to know is...

when you gonna come down

Fill 3, played by gtr 2, while gtr. 1 plays A D

e|--10h12--10--9----------|---------------------------|
B|----------------12--10--|---------------------------|
G|------------------------|--12--11--9--7--7h9/11--9--|
D|------------------------|---------------------------|
A|------------------------|---------------------------|
E|------------------------|---------------------------|

NH

e|-- 5 ---NH--|
B|------- 5 --|
G|------------| Guitar 2, just before second verse
D|------------|
A|------------|
E|------------|

Your mother recognizes all your desperate displays

and she watches as her babies drift violently away

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