{"id":1092,"date":"2013-05-24T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T01:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2017-03-08T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:26:02","slug":"los-campesinos-this-is-a-flag-there-is-no-wind-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Los Campesinos! &#8211; This Is A Flag. There Is No Wind &#8211; Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-cWxcC5oRM?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an amazing song. It&#8217;s simple and raw with a lot of emotion. I found the chords at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chordify.net\/chords\/los-campesinos-this-is-a-flag-there-is-no-wind-14-romance-is-boring-meister334\">chordify.net<\/a>, but they aren&#8217;t exactly right. Here&#8217;s what I think they should be. (The climbing bass line is what gives this song a lot of its tension, so I&#8217;ve included it. I don&#8217;t really play guitar, but I just worked some of this out on a keyboard and it seems right. Let me know if there are any corrections in the comments below.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Is A Flag. There Is No Wind &#8211; Los Campesinos!<\/strong><br \/>\n[Intro] x2<br \/>\nE\/B E\/G#<br \/>\nCaug Caug\/F#<br \/>\nC#m C#m<br \/>\nA\/C# A\/C#<\/p>\n<p>E (not voiced)<br \/>\nCAN WE ALL PLEASE JUST CALM THE FUCK DOWN?<\/p>\n<p>E\/B E\/G#<br \/>\nAn analogy that makes sense to most<br \/>\nCaug Caug\/F#<br \/>\nThis opportunity it found me unmarked at the far post<br \/>\nC#m C#m<br \/>\nBut I blazed it right against the crossbar<br \/>\nA\/C# A\/C#<br \/>\nOf the pub that you had worked in since you moved here from Bath spa<\/p>\n<p>E\/B E\/G#<br \/>\nWe agreed we couldn&#8217;t trust the guy that didn&#8217;t like a single sport<br \/>\nCaug Caug\/F#<br \/>\nBut those bow-legged suitors hadn&#8217;t given me much of a thought<br \/>\nC#m C#m<br \/>\nThey said it smelled delicious but it smelt of burning flesh<br \/>\nA\/C# A\/C#<br \/>\nNot meant to be malicious but this is the cross we bear<\/p>\n<p>E\/B F#m\/C# A<br \/>\nThe story of the winter I forgot how to speak \/ my mind was<br \/>\nE\/B F#m\/C# A<br \/>\nlike a nation&#8217;s flag but my breeze was too weak. \/ How they<br \/>\nE\/B F#m\/C# A<br \/>\ndragged me to the hospital sayin&#8217; I had gone deaf, \/ but I<br \/>\nE<br \/>\nheard everything they said. It&#8217;s just I<br \/>\nA<br \/>\nhad no interest.<\/p>\n<p>[break]<\/p>\n<p>E\/B E\/G#<br \/>\nOur friends have put the two of us on suicide watch<br \/>\nCaug Caug\/F#<br \/>\nAnd every second spent away we spend watching the clock<br \/>\nC#m C#m<br \/>\nThere are photos of us holding hands outside of the frame<br \/>\nA\/C# A\/C#<br \/>\nI was there, but wonder where our fingers were all the same<\/p>\n<p>E\/B E\/G#<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like a self-restraint (It&#8217;s the size of a fingernail)<br \/>\nCaug Caug\/F#<br \/>\nAnd then we chew it down (Yeah we chew it down all the same)<br \/>\nC#m C#m<br \/>\nSad eyes for sad goodbyes<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a crime<br \/>\nA\/C#<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a crime<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a crime<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a crime<\/p>\n<p>E\/B F#m\/C# A<br \/>\nThe story of the winter I forgot how to speak \/ my mind was<br \/>\nE\/B F#m\/C# A<br \/>\nlike a nation&#8217;s flag but my breeze was too weak. \/ How they<br \/>\nE\/B F#m\/C# A<br \/>\ndragged me to the hospital sayin&#8217; I had gone deaf, \/ but I<br \/>\nE<br \/>\nheard everything they said. It&#8217;s just I<br \/>\nA<br \/>\nhad no interest.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this, please <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ussherpress\">follow me on twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an amazing song. It&#8217;s simple and raw with a lot of emotion. I found the chords at\u00a0chordify.net, but they aren&#8217;t exactly right. Here&#8217;s what I think they should be. (The climbing bass line is what gives this song a lot of its tension, so I&#8217;ve included it. I don&#8217;t really play guitar, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=1092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Los Campesinos! &#8211; This Is A Flag. There Is No Wind &#8211; Chords<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}