Guster – Architects And Engineers chords

Intro: E  B  F#/B  E5 (strum each six times, repeat twice)


E                    BI live on the second floor
      F#/B                  E5Of an old row house down in Baltimore
E                           BWatching all the colors and the shapes
F#/B             E5Standing tall up here


(E5)My face against the window
E*  B   F#/B  E*OooooooOooOoooOoo
(E*)My face against the window
E*  B   F#/B  E*OooooooOooOoooOoo


B*


E                              BThese moments, they can never last
            F#/B            E5Like a sad old man with his photographs
E                                      BKeeps wishing for the things he cannot change
F#/B                 E5Standing tall up here


(E5)My face against the window
E*  B   F#/B  E*OooooooOooOoooOoo
(E*)My face against the window
E*  B   F#/B  E*OooooooOooOoooOoo

B*

B                        ASo the architects and the engineers
G#min                  F#Build their monuments, make their souvenirs
B*We are occupants
       AIt's a trap, this town
       G#min
We are burning up
       F#We are fading out
B*              **We are shooting stars

[that's my arrangement of how it would go chord-wise, what's really being
played during the bridge is tabbed below (strumming not shown…just follow
the progression above for guidance)]

e-------------2-|B-4---4---4---2-|G-4---4---4---3-|D-4---4---4---4-|A-2---x---x---4-|E-----5---4---2-|      ^   ^    use your thumb on the E string for these two


**This is played throughout the background of the bridge, and is most noticeable
during the 'shooting stars line. To get the riff going throughout the bridge with one
guitar just keep adding alternations between the 4th and 5th fret on B (as shown
below) to the chords used in the transcribed version of the bridge above.

e---------------|B-4--5--4--5--4-|G-4--4--4--4--4-| (etc...)D-4--4--4--4--4-|A-2--2--2--2--2-|E---------------|


E  B   F#/B   E*OooooooOooOoooOoo
E  B   F#/B   E*OooooooOooOoooOoo
E  B   F#/B  E*OooooooOooOoooOoo