Tom: D
"Another Bag of Bricks”
From the album Drunken Lullabies
Tabbed by Eric Bonkowski
Intro:
chorus riff
D G
D C D
D
T’was in the early evenin’
Near the presence of the moon
You told me you would meet me here
Well now is not too soon
G
This dagger twisting in my back
D
Tells me I never should
G
Have trusted everything to fall
F A
From beggar to the fool
D
I see your face like every race
A serpent with two arms
Devouring me while rains the sun
With dreams in foreign lands
G
This cold and dark tormented hell
D
Is all I’ll ever know
G
So when you get to heaven
F A
May the devil be the judge
(with chorus riff)
With another bag of bricks
D
I scratch your name across these walls
And with my blood turns red
Then drips upon my killing floor
Where now I call my bed
G
No precious light to harbor
D
Like so many here before
G
And every drop of life you shed
F A
Now breathes a thousand more
(with chorus riff)
With another bag of bricks
A
Temper filled with blindness
Leads this lost and lonely man
Dragged around your whipping tree
A scourge you can’t command
D
So deafen me with silence
Drown me with your roar
Scowl me with your hollow eyes
Still burnin’ to the core
G
No door will go unanswered
D
Like so many closed before
G
No vagabond to knock upon
D
This tired and beatin’ war
G
When all return to exile
D
Free from all once bound
G
Decline and brawl old parasites
F A
The truth will yet be found
(with chorus riff)
With another bag of bricks
instrumental interlude:
quickly:
D D D D |
D D D D |
D D D G G
D D D D |
D D D D |
D D D G G
Then
D over the accordion solo
N.C.
This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I’ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge
A
Temper filled with blindness
Leads this lost and lonely man
Dragged around your whipping tree
A scourge you can’t command
D
So deafen me with silence
Drown me with your roar
Scowl me with your hollow eyes
Still burnin’ to the core
G
No door will go unanswered
D
Like so many closed before
G
No vagabond to knock upon
D
This tired and beatin’ war
G
When all return to exile
D
Free from all once bound
G
Decline and brawl old parasites
F A
The truth will yet be found
(with chorus riff x3)
With another bag of bricks
instrumental outro:
quickly:
D D D D |
D D D D |
D D D G G
D D D D |
D D D D |
D D D G G
NOTE:
The
F to
A move at the end of each verse sounds
much better when
A is played barred, rather than
in the open position. Also the reoccurring
D may
sound better as a D, though it is definitely not
a Dm.
and sometimes at the end of certain verse lines,
the violin/accordion slide this little bit in:
And for any mandolin or violin players,
those few riffs look like this:
and
Have fun. Email questions/corrections to
F