Tabs
Silo Song
from the album Driving North
Tab by Matt Morrow
Capo III
Em7 C G
-----------][---------------][--------------][-------------][-----------------]
-----------][---------------][--------------][-------3-3-3-][--3/5--0---------]
-------0-0-][---------0-0-0-][---------0-0--][-------0-0-0-][----------0--0h4-]
-------5-5-][---------2-2-2-][---------0-0--][-------------][-----------------]
--5/7------][--0h2h3--------][--3p2p0-------][-------------][-----------------]
-----------][---------------][--------------][--2/3--------][-----------------]
Em7 C G D/F#
-----------][---------------][--------------][-------3-3-3-][-------3-3-3-]
-----------][---------------][--------------][-------3-3-3-][-------3-3-3-]
-------0-0-][---------0-0-0-][---------0-0--][-------0-0-0-][-------2-2-2-]
-------5-5-][---------2-2-2-][---------0-0--][-------------][-------------]
--5/7------][--0h2h3--------][--3p2p0-------][-------------][-------------]
-----------][---------------][--------------][--2/3--------][--0h2--------]
Em7 C G
Maybe you learned it from your family
Em7 C G D/F#
Mix in a little of your Midwest seems
Em7 C G
Someone out there built a legacy
Em7 C G D/F#
Of keeping everything tight under wraps
Em7 C G
All the secrets in the silos
Em7 C G D/F#
You only whisper them to the prairie wind
Em7 C G
Now we're talking on the telephone
Em7 C G D/F#
Skimming the surface of this ocean
Em7 C G D/F#
Just skimming the surface of this ocean, oh
G D
You're drowning me in all you're not saying
Em C
Swept under the rug for so long, oh, darling
G D Em
Don't it get lonely when you're the only one who knows
C
One who knows
All the over-encrypted poetry
Unintelligible tales of the truth
It was all dripping with mystery
Enough to keep me there long overdue
So honey, honey, drop the metaphor
Honey, honey, won't you come clean
Cause you're drowning me in all you're not saying
Swept under the rug for so long, oh, darling
Don't it get lonely when you're the only one who knows
One who knows
Em G C
Well, I don't claim to be so forthright, it's not my strong point
Em G C
But your attempts are illusory and you don't even know it, you don't even know
it
So maybe you learned it from your family
Maybe that's just your best excuse
You could use some New York City
You could use your own talk show host
G Em C D
Cause I am drowning in all you're not saying
G Em C D
I wanna shake your shoulders, I wanna rip down the curtains
G Em C D
Oh, cause all I remember are these opaque conversations
G Em C D
And so much of the meaning just got lost in the translation
G Em C D
Oh, and all I remember are these opaque conversations
G Em C D
Oh, and so much of the meaning just got lost in the translation
It's a tale so ordinary
There you were with your pretty mouth closed
But darling, you should've told me the ending
G
Long before you did