The Mountain Goats — Lakeside View Apartments Suite
This is a great song, atmospheric and somehow deep.
As this is my first tab and I'm still quite a novice myself, please don't judge too hard
about it.
I'm pretty sure about the chords, though. They sure sound fine.
Just make sure to vary in the way you play them - the song sounds better the more you
play them note by note just like the piano and bass do in the original.
One last thing about the timing: I tried to match the chords as exactly to the syllabees
as possable - still there's no way around listening to the song again and again about
it. Or just improvise.
BmBmDGBm
Downtown north past the airport
GAD
A dream in switchgrass and concrete
BmDGD
Three gray floors - of smoky windows
FDmG
Facing the street
EDBm
Michael pulls the blinds back up
EDBm
Stares blankly down at the intersection
BmAGA
Watching for the guy who's got the angel dust
F#mDE
Crystal clear connection
GA
Days like dominos
Bm
All in a line
GABm
We cheer for the home team - every time
GABmGABm
Lakeside View, Lakeside View
GABmDG
Lakeside View for my whole crew
BmBmDD
Most nights now sleep in the kitchen
GAD
Keep my face cool on the floor
BmDGD
And John, John comes by to drop off his envelopes
F#mDG
Still playing postman after all these years
E(Bm)
EDBm
Pull down my army surplus jacket
EDBm
Dig through some drawers to find the keys
BmAGA
Emerge transformed in a million years
FDmE
From days like these
GABm
Under each eye - little greasepaint smudge
(D) GABm
You can't judge us - you're not the judge
GABmGABm
Lakeside View, Lakeside View
GABmDG
Lakeside View for my whole crew
EBm
And just before I leave
EBm
I throw up in the sink
EBm
One whole life recorded
EBm
In disappearing ink
BAGBmAGF#m
And Ray left a message thumbtacked to the door
BmAG
I don't even bother trying to read them anymore
GABmGABm
Lakeside View, Lakeside View
GABmDG
Lakeside View for my whole crew
Bm