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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: ----- -12-- -11-- -12-- -10-- ----- 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