Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound Cifras

Artist: The Mars Volta
Title: Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound
Album: Noctourniquet
Tuning: Standard
 
Tabbed by: chatlo77
 
I've sort of reharmonized the chorus to make it more acoustic friendly and I think it's fairly accurate.
I think it sounds more interesting to use sus2 voicings and just play hammer-ons throughout to make it sound
a bit better on acoustic. Here are some of the chords and voicings I use:
 
Am: x02210
Asus2: x02200
A7sus4: x02033
B5: x244xx
Bm: x2443x   or x24030
C: x35550 or 81010988
C5: x355xx
E5: 022xxx
F: 133211  or x8756x
G: 320030
G6add2: 300430
G6sus2:  300030
Gsus2: 300230 or 300033
 
 
[Intro]
 
Am G x2
 
     Am                                              G
If I trust in the wind, she will pave me a different road
       Am                                                   G
I will try and start over, but I think I must choose someone else
     Am                                                          G
I am pulled from the pages where the letters lack the pigment of trust
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
        F                         G
Must be on my way, I've gotta get home
         F                         G
Won't be back someday, so let it unfold
 
 
Am G x2
 
[Verse 2]
      Am                                             G
I've abandoned the outcome in search of the rest I deserve
        Am                                                  G
You can do what you will with my body, but I won't ring the bell
      Am                                       G
I've omitted the chapters that bow and admit defeat
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
        F                         G
Must be on my way, I've gotta get home
         F                         G
Won't be back someday, so let it unfold
 
 
[Chorus]
 E5  Gsus2  Asus2    C5   Bm
Hi - gher   than      mountains
E5   Gsus2 Asus2 Bm  C5 Bm       Bm Asus2
Of   ca  - ver- nous people
G            Gsus2    Asus2*    Gsus2                * -  You can play Am or A7sus4 here to mix it up
Searching for a lighthouse in the fog
 E5  Gsus2  Asus2    C5   Bm
Hi - gher   than      mountains
E5   Gsus2 Asus2 Bm  C5 Bm       Bm Asus2
Of   ca  - ver- nous people
G            Gsus2     Asus2     G
Searching for a lighthouse in the fog
 
Am  G x2
 
[Verse 3]
       Am                                                  G
Of the flowers that grew from the cracks in the ground you paved
           Am                                                     G
Didn't you think he would warn me through the thorns of my waking dreams?
         Am                                          G
When the riddles connected the dots of this constellation
 
[Pre-Chorus]
        F                          G
Must be on my way, I've got to get home
         F                         G
Won't be back someday, so let it unfold
 
[Chorus]
 E5  Gsus2  Asus2    C5   Bm
Hi - gher   than      mountains
E5   Gsus2 Asus2 Bm  C5 Bm       Bm Asus2
Of   ca  - ver- nous people
G            Gsus2    Asus2*    Gsus2
Searching for a lighthouse in the fog
 E5  Gsus2  Asus2    C5   Bm
Hi - gher   than      mountains
E5   Gsus2 Asus2 Bm  C5 Bm       Bm Asus2
Of   ca  - ver- nous people
G            Gsus2     Asus2     G
Searching for a lighthouse in the fog
 
Bm   C x2
 
[Bridge]
Bm                                      C
I found a reason to leave you with this love
Bm                                  G
All I can do is forgive your broken heart
Bm                                         C
Trapped in this town made of amber for too long
Bm                                  G
All I can do is forgive your broken heart
 
Bm    C x2
 
[Chorus]
 E5  Gsus2  Asus2    C5   Bm
Hi - gher   than      mountains
E5   Gsus2 Asus2 Bm  C5 Bm       Bm Asus2
Of   ca  - ver- nous people
G            Gsus2    Asus2*    Gsus2
Searching for a lighthouse in the fog
 E5  Gsus2  Asus2    C5   Bm
Hi - gher   than      mountains
E5   Gsus2 Asus2 Bm  C5 Bm       Bm Asus2
Of   ca  - ver- nous people
G            Gsus2     Asus2     G
Searching for a lighthouse in the fog
 
 
 
 
Hope this is is useful to some people. It's really a beautiful song and a hidden gem on a less-favoured Volta
album. Please add corrections if necessary and love eachother.
 
chatlo77
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