Mistaken for Strangers Tabs & Lyrics by The National
Mistaken for Strangers
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At times you can hear the three notes of the intro chords plucked in
the pattern of low-middle-high-middle. On live versions, someone in the
band plucks that pattern for the first four lines, then plucks it an octave
higher for the two lines that go "showered and blue-blazered..."
(Note: I recommend finding a good live version. I think the live is better
than the album version, which obscures the guitar.)
I've written two ways to play the chords. The first is the easiest,
but I saw them live and it looked they played it the second way.
They sound the same. I suppose the second is nice if you want
to give your guitar a hard strum without worrying about muting
the low string.
easy live
F/A: X032XX 587XXX
F/Bb: X132XX 687XXX
F/C: X332XX 887XXX
Csus4: X330XX 885XXX
Intro: F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
F/A F/Bb
You have to do it running but you do everything that they
F/C Csus4
ask you to cause you don�t mind seeing
F/A F/Bb
yourself in a picture as long as you look
F/C Csus4
faraway, as long as you look removed
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
Dm F
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
Bb F
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery
Bb F Am Am7
citibank lights, arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
Dm F
Oh you wouldn�t want an angel watching over.
Bb F
Surprise, surprise, they wouldn�t wannna watch
Bb F Am Am7
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
F/A F/Bb
Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
F/C Csus4
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
F/A F/Bb
so you swear you just saw a feathery
F/C Csus4
woman carry a blindfolded man through the trees
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
(repeat chorus)
