Through The Trees Part 2

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                             THROU
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  GH THE TDE S PT. 2 - Mount Eerie
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Tabbed by: Jeff Holland

Tuning: Standard

This is one of the most beautiful 
songs I know, both lyrically and 
compositionally.
Congrats to you for taking the time 
to learn it.

A few months ago, I sent Phil 
Elverum a letter asking him for help
 learning this song.
He responded giving me the chords. 
So I've gotten these chords directly
 from Phil. So
these chords come directly from 
Phil.

Here are all of the chords used 
throughout the song. (Note: gsome of
 the chord names are
more complex than what I've written.
 What I call C#m is actually 
C#madd9/G#, what I
call F#m7 is actually F#m7add11/C#, 
and what I call A is actually Asus2.
 I shortened them for brevity's 
sake.)

    C#m  F#m7  G#m7  A  B  F#m  E  
E|---0----0-----4----0--2---2---0-
B|---4----0-----4----0--4---2---0-
G|---6----2-----4----2--4---2---1-
D|---6----4-----6----2--4---4---2-
A|--------4-----6----0--2---4---2-
E|--------------4-----------2---0-
  G#m
E|--4-------------------------------
B|--4-------------------------------
G|--4-------------------------------
D|--6-------------------------------
A|--6-------------------------------
E|--4-------------------------------

And just to clarify: At the point 
when he says "mountains and 
websites," play the
following little thing which I will 
call "part A," for lack of a better 
name.
E|--------------------------------
B|--------------------------------
G|--------------------------------
D|---7-----7----------------------
A|---9-----6----------------------
E|--------------------------------

Intro: (play x2, but on the last 
time don't play the lil E chord at 
the end)
E|-------------------------------
B|-4-0(| let ring)---------------
G|-6-----------------------------
D|-6----6-4--------7-------7--7--
A|-----------4/7---7-------9--6--
E|-------------------------------
E|------------------------------------------|   
B|--------------------------------------------| 
G|-----------1------------------------------|   
D|6-----1----2------------------------------|   
A|4-----2----2------------------------------|   
E|-----------0------------------------------|   


Verse: (this isn't a traditionally 
structured song so I'm just gonna 
call the whole
thing a verse)
A C#m F#m7 G#m7 A

C#m                    F#m7
Misunderstood and disillusioned,
G#m7                         A   
I go on describing this place and
                              C#m
 the way it feels to live and die
The “natural world” and whatever 
F#m7
else it’s called
G#m                         A    
I drive in and out of town, 
                     C#m
seeing no edge, breathing sky
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         B                        
And it’s hard to describe without 
F#m7
seeming absurd
               E
I know there’s no other world:
             (part A)
Mountains and websites

C#m                  F#m7
Dark smoke fills the air,
              G#m7                 
Some from the fire in my house, 
           A
some from me driving around
C#m                       
I could see the lights of town 
F#m7             G#m7
through the trees on the ridge
          A
On my way home in the dark
C#m                           
I meant all my songs not as a 
F#m7
picture of the woods
              G#m7              
But just to remind myself that I 
         C#m
briefly live
The gleaming stone, the moon in the 
F#m7
sky at noon
            G#m7                 
There is no other world and there 
     A
has never been
C#m                   F#m7
I still walk, living, sleeping
            G#m7                 
Life in the real world of clouds, 
             A
clawing for meaning
C#m                              
Still when I see branches in the 
F#m7
wind
               G#m7              
The tumultuous place where I live 
              A
calls out, revealing

         C#m                 
“Can you see the river in the 
 F#m7
branches
                 G#m7
And know that it means you will die
                    A
And that pieces are churning?”
         C#m                     
“Can you find a wildness in your 
F#m7
body
                     G#m7       
And walk through the store after 
                  C#m
work, holding it high?”

                     F#m7
I’ve held aloft some delusions
     B                          
From now on, I will be perfectly 
 E
clear:
G#m                               
There’s no part of the world more 
F#m
meaningful
          E                        
And raw impermanence echoes in the 
B
sky

C#m (x4)

C#m             F#m7              
There is either no end or constant
 G#m7                   A
 simultaneous end and beginning
C#m                  F#m7
A pile of trash, the fog on the hill
G#m                        
Standing in the parking lot, 
  C#m
squinting


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| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| +   harmonic
| x   Mute note
| b   Bend
| pb  Pre-bend
| br  Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend