Chord/Tab song: Blood for Poppies

Song: Blood for Poppies (2012)
Album: Not Your Kind of People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Your_Kind_of_People
Written: Garbage
URL's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v8D1PCQteutE,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_for_Poppies
Style: Moderato
Author: Tab annotated by rikigo ([email protected])

Tuning: Standard

Chords:

Gm 355333
Dm XX0231
Bb X12221
F 133211
Eb XX1343
Cm X35543
Ab 688766

Intro:
| Gm Dm | Gm Dm |

Verse 1:
[Gm]Salute the sun,
I've been sitting here all night [Dm]long.

Hauling rock over Buddha with the Longhorn,
[Gm]Got a hole, so rip a pocket off my uniform.
[Dm]With the Blackwatch Boys,
Get your heads down.
[Gm]Oooh.....[Dm]Ooh

Verse 2:
[Gm]Duty calls, but it's way too late,
I'm too far [Dm]gone.

Waiting for Godot, 'hell with my pants down.
[Gm]Cracked the stash,

Sent me crying in the midday sun.
[Dm]I miss my dog and I miss my freedom.
[Gm]Oooh.....[Dm]Ooh
[Gm]Oo-oh....[Dm]O-oh

Chorus 1:
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]They know I'm here just [Eb]out of sight.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]He's by my side and I [Eb]know I'm right.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]They know I'm here just [Eb]out of sight.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]He's by my side and I [Eb]know I'm right.

Bridge 1:
| Gm Dm | Gm Dm |

Verse 3:
[Gm]I hate the things I think about you,

When I'm all alone.
[Dm]I know you're tough,

But I've been gone for so long.
[Gm]I play the memories of you,
Inside my [Dm]head.

So all these pictures of us,
Burn and [Gm]radiate... [Dm]
[Gm]Watch the clouds and I'm falling,
Falling through the [Dm]cracks

Head beats and my heart is pounding fast.
[Gm]Off the ground into the starry [Dm]dark,
Into your arms, I'm f[Gm]alling.....[Dm]Ooh
[Gm]Ooo-h.....[Dm]Oo-h

Chorus 2:
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]They know I'm here just [Eb]out of sight.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]He's by my side and I [Eb]know I'm right.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]They know I'm here just [Eb]out of sight.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]He's by my side and I [Eb]know I'm right.

Chorus 3:
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]They know I'm here just [Eb]out of sight.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]He's by my side and I [Eb]know I'm right.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]They know I'm here just [Eb]out of sight.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]He's by my side and I [Eb]know I'm right.

Verse 4:
| Cm | Eb Bb |
[F]My brain, my body's fried,
[Cm]I've got to stay alive.
[Eb]I've gotta take a chance and [Ab]keep on moving,
[F]Keep on moving.

Chorus 4:
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]They know I'm here just [Eb]out of sight.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]He's by my side and I [Eb]know I'm right.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio,
[Gm]They know I'm here just [Eb]out of sight.
[Bb]I don't know why they are [F]calling on the radio, (I see your light from miles way.)
[Gm]He's by my side and I [Eb]know I'm right. (I see your light from miles way.)

Outro:
[Gm]I see your light from [Dm]miles way.....[Gm]Ooh.
[Gm]I see your light from [Dm]miles way.....[Gm]Ooh.

[(End)]


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Alternate Version:

Capo 3

Gm Em
Dm Bm
Bb G
F D
Eb C
Cm Am
Ab F

Notes:
1. "The song is meant to feel sort of like an abstract dream," Garbage singer
Shirley Manson recalled. "The inspiration came from a story I had read in Los
Angeles Times about the opium trade and also from watching the documentary
Restrepo. It's not literal in any sense whatsoever but it's a song about
disorientation and delusion and the human struggle to stay sane in the face of
insanity."