Tom: Bb
E|--------0--7-----0--3-------0-------|
B|-----3-------------------3-------3--|
G|-0----------------------------4-----|
D|------------------------------------|
Bb Eb F
[Verse]
Bb Eb F Eb Bb
Please, the ward he offers me a pack of cigarettes.
Eb F Eb Bb
They aren’t his, and yet I feel it coming on
Eb F Eb
I feel it coming on a sense of welling grief
Bb Eb F Eb
And though they‘re serving samovar, somehow I’d rather be
[Chorus]
Bb Eb
Up in an airplane above the archipelago.
Gm Cm F Bb Eb
I stuttered in my armour in an airplane above the archipelago.
Gm Cm F
Now I see where you grew up, and the murderer in me.
[Instrumental]
E|---------------2-2-----5-5--2-2--10-10--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5|
B|-----------0-0---------------------------------------------------------|
G|--0-0------------------------------------------------------------------| x2
D|-------0-0---------0-0-------------------------------------------------|
E|------------0--2-3--------------0--2-3--------2-3------------|
B|---0-------------------1-0-----------------1---------1-0-----|
G|-0----0--------------------2-0----------------------------2-0| x2
D|---------0----------0-------------------0---------0----------|
[Verse 2]
Bb Eb F
Please, the blanket and the sheets,
Eb Bb Eb F
The leaves the gardener rakes are articles of faith.
Eb Bb Eb F Eb
The company believes I’m running derelict around these foreign streets.
Bb Eb F Bb
The colonel knows I want to crack his head for taking me
[Chorus]
Bb Eb
Up in an airplane above the archipelago.
Gm Cm F Bb Eb
I stuttered in my armour in an airplane above the archipelago.
Gm Cm F
I could see where you grew up, and the murderer in me.
[Instrumental]
E|---------------2-2-----5-5--2-2--10-10--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5|
B|-----------0-0---------------------------------------------------------|
G|--0-0------------------------------------------------------------------| x2
D|-------0-0---------0-0-------------------------------------------------|
[Bridge]
(you can play chords or fingerpick here, either one)
E|------------0--2-3--------------0--2-3--------2-3------------|
B|---0-------------------1-0-----------------1---------1-0-----|
G|-0----0--------------------2-0----------------------------2-0|
D|---------0----------0-------------------0---------0----------|
Bb Eb F Eb
They said there was an ice age forty thousand years ago.
Bb Eb F Eb
Incidents of road rage warring on the streets below.
[x2]
Below... Below... Below...
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B|---0-------------------1-0-----------------1---------1-0-----|
G|-0----0--------------------2-0----------------------------2-0| x4
D|---------0----------0-------------------0---------0----------|
[Chorus]
Bb Eb
Up in an airplane above the archipelago.
Gm Cm F Bb Eb
I stuttered in my armour in an airplane above the archipelago.
Gm Cm F
Now I see where you grew up, and the murderer in me.
