Fixed Up By Orange Light Cifras

Fixed Up By Orange Light by Westelaken
Taken from their album I Am Steaming Mushroom and their live performance at Sellers & Newell
Tuning: Standard, Capo on 3rd fret
Difficulty: Intermediate
 
[Intro]
Piano chord is likely:
Gmaj7(add an F# to the high e string to match)
 
e|-2---|
B|-3---|
G|-4---|
D|-4---|
A|-x---|
E|-3---|
 
[Riff] x2
You can play with hammering on and removing certain notes from the G and Am shape,
essentially playing all strings with each strum. They also form the rhythm.
 
     G                       Am/Am7         G
e|---2-------------2---------0-0------------2-|
B|---0-------------0---------1-1------------0-|
G|---0------0------0------0--2-0-0---0------0-|
D|---0-0-0h2-2p0---0-0-0h2-2-2-2---0h2-2p0--0-|
A|---2-------------2---------0-0------------2-|
E|-3-3-0---------3-3---------x-x----------3-3-| G for the rest of the bar
 
Then we get this strange variation on A. Let’s call it Avar. I play it open like this:
 
e|-0-|
B|-0-|
G|-5-|
D|-0-|
A|-x-|
E|-5-|
 
[Verse]
note that when I play the Cs, I throw a little hammer-on the middle finger (fret 2 on the D string)
 
         C
Tell me too
Em                  Am           C
Go back softly and change my attitude
Em                  Am             C
Drink my coffee and listen to the news
       Em           Am                 C
That I got off easy and I could still lose
Em      C       G*
    Every nerve ending
Em           C         G**
    Like that carcass lying
Dm                C                G
Collapsed and decomposed among the pines
Am               C            G
Still I swear I see myself in you
 
Avar
 
       C
I was born
    Em                           Am           C
And fixed up by mushrooms, fixed up by orange light
      Em                         Am           C
Fixed up by long rides, and the dimness of my mind
      Em                  Am                C
Fixed up alone, and fixed up by the flat expanse
Em          C          G*
   Where the county is heavy
Em        C         G**
   With traces of the past
      Dm                C           G
And I break myself for just single grasp
Am               C            G
Still I swear that I will be renewed
 
[Riff] x2 (same as before)
 
     G                       Am/Am7         G
e|---2-------------2---------0-0------------2-|
B|---0-------------0---------1-1------------0-|
G|---0------0------0------0--2-0-0---0------0-|
D|---0-0-0h2-2p0---0-0-0h2-2-2-2---0h2-2p0--0-|
A|---2-------------2---------0-0------------2-|
E|-3-3-0---------3-3---------x-x----------3-3-| G for the rest of the bar
 
[Bridge]
Very nifty progression here, lots getting jumbled between the violin, keys, and bass.
Here are the root notes of what’s happening:
 
D   C   B   A   G
D C G
 
[Free verse] - the band goes free-form here, but it’s held down by that first piano chord,
Gmaj7 (add an F# to the high e string).
 
There seems to be a different chord that they slam on to end the free verse,
I think the guitar is playing the Avar chord.
 
[Verse]
       C
Coming down
    Em                  Am                     C
Was so damn easy, I was already so low to the ground
    Em                          Am                     C
You came to me and held me, all space collapses and compounds 
    Em                    Am               C
You told me once I would live with just ourselves(?)
Em          G       Am                G
 And I can say that you were probably right:
Bm    Dm           Am      C     G
   It doesn’t make for an easier life
Am               C             G
Still I swear I think about it now
Am               C            G
Still I swear I see you in my house
Am               C            G
Still I swear I see myself in you
Am               C            G
Still I swear I see myself in you
 
[Riff] x2 (same as before)
 
     G                       Am/Am7         G
e|---2-------------2---------0-0------------2-|
B|---0-------------0---------1-1------------0-|
G|---0------0------0------0--2-0-0---0------0-|
D|---0-0-0h2-2p0---0-0-0h2-2-2-2---0h2-2p0--0-|
A|---2-------------2---------0-0------------2-|
E|-3-3-0---------3-3---------x-x----------3-3-| G for the rest of the bar
 
Gmaj7(add an F# to the high e string)
 
End
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*After the G chord and before the Em, play this:
 
e|---------|
B|---------|
G|---------|
D|---------|
A|----0----|
E|-3-3-3-2-|
 
**After the G chord and before the Dm, play this:
 
e|----------|
B|----------|
G|----------|
D|----------|
A|----0-2-3-|
E|-3-3------|
 
 
 
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| x  Dead note
| h  Hammer-on
| p  Pull-off
 
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