Decemberists - Cocoon
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Cocoon by The Decemberists
Transcribed by Steve Goldberg - shgoldbe@andrew.cmu.edu
To play the verse riff, hold the chord formation while picking the melody on top:
Dmaj7 Gmaj7
---------5------------------------
-7---5-7---7-5-------3------------
-6-------------7-----4------------
-7-------------------4-----------
-5-------------------x------------
---------------------3------------
Gmaj7 can also be conveniently played as:
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-12--
-11--
-12--
-10--
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Another way to play the riff:
Dmaj7 Gmaj7
-2--------------------------------
-2-----------------3--------------
-2------2----------4--------------
-0--2-4---4-2-0----4--------------
-------------------x--------------
-------------------3--------------
Intro: Dmaj7 Gmaj7 (x2)
Dmaj7this cocoon, cGmaj7aught in vesuvius' shadow
onlyDmaj7 the ashes remain
and Gmaj7i waited there for you
why couDmaj7ldn't yGmaj7ou'
Dmaj7here we lie waitiGmaj7ng for somethig to startle
to shake Dmaj7us from gravity's pull
and Gmaj7so sleeping hours are through
what cDmaj7an we dGmaj7o'
the sBmorry concluGmaj7sion, the lEm7ow dirty war, it happened before you came to
but tBmhis is soluGmaj7tion, and this is amends
the jEm7oke always tends to come true
but tChere on your AmwindowsiEll over the unmoving platoon
wCritten Amin paperbEack, view to the quarterback's room
unGder waning moon
D/F# Dm/F Em
this quiet serves only to hide you
prBm/F#ovide yEmou
what I Gknew,Gm what I knewDmaj7, it'd Gmaj7come back to you
Dmaj7 Gmaj7
take this palm, follow the lines here are written
and script out the rest of your life
and feel your fingers falling slack and all folding back
the tainted election, the hole in the sky
command what is tried, what is true
but without solution, with feet on the ground
it won't make a sound 'til you're through
so loosen your shoulderblades
this is your hour to make due
because there on the timberline
deep cold november shines through
soft and absolute
this quiet serves only to hide you
provide in you
what I knew, what I knew, it'd come back to you