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A Lack of Color

Death Cab for Cutie
TabTuningHalf-Step Down
4.9(303)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Intro/Verse

eb|----------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------|
Gb|----------------------------|
Db|--6---6---6---6---6--\2---2-|
Ab|----------------------------|
Eb|0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
eb|--------------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------|
Gb|--------------------------------|
Db|-/6---6---6---6---6---6---4---4-|
Ab|--------------------------------|
Eb|0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
eb|--------------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------|
Gb|--9---9---9---9---9---9---------|
Db|--------------------------9---9-|
Ab|--------------------------------|
Eb|9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---|
eb|------------------------------------|
Bb|------------------------------------|
Gb|------------------9---9-------------|
Db|--7---7---7---7-----------9---9---6-|
Ab|------------------------------------|
Eb|9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---0---|

And when I see you

I really see you upside down

But my brain knows better

It picks you up and turns you around

Turns you around

Turns you around

If you feel discouraged

And there's a lack of color here

Please don't worry lover

It's really bursting at the seams

From absorbing everything

The spectrum's A to Z

Ohhh's

This is fact not fiction

For the first time in years

And all the girls in every girlie magazine

Can't make me feel any less alone

I'm reaching for the phone

Chorus

eb|-----------------------------|
Bb|--0-0--0-0--0--0---0-0--0-0--|
Gb|--8-8--8-8--9--9---8-8--6-6--|
Db|--9-9--9-9--11-11--9-9--7-7--|
Ab|--9-9--9-9--11-11--9-9--7-7--|
Eb|--7-7--8-8--9--9---7-7--5-5--|

To call at 7:03

And on your machine I slur a plea

For you to come home

Bb|-0-0--0-0----|
Gb|-8-8--8-8----|
Db|-9-9--9-9----|
Ab|-9-9--9-9----|
Eb|-7-7--8-8----|

But I know it's too late

eb|--------------|
Bb|-0-------0----|
Gb|-9---13--6----|
Db|-11--13--7----|
Ab|-11--11--7----|
Eb|-9---12--5----|

And I should have given you a reason to stay

Given you a reason to stay

[Outro] (2x)

eb|--------------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------|
Gb|--------------------------------|
Db|--6---6---6---6---6---6--\2---2-|
Ab|--------------------------------|
Eb|0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
eb|--------------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------|
Gb|--------------------------------|
Db|-/6---6---6---6---6---6---4---4-|
Ab|--------------------------------|
Eb|0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
eb|--------------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------|
Gb|--9---9---9---9---9---9---------|
Db|--------------------------9---9-|
Ab|--------------------------------|
Eb|9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---|
eb|--------------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------|
Gb|------------------9---9---------|
Db|--7---7---7---7-----------9---9-|
Ab|--------------------------------|
Eb|9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9---|

Last time end on:

eb|-----|
Bb|-----|
Gb|-----|
Db|---6-|
Ab|-----|
Eb|0----|

This is fact not fiction

For the first time in years...

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