Your Legs Grow Chords Guitar Tab

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"Your Legs Grow"
By Nada Surf
Tabbed by: Brandon Luckas (copperforever@aol.com)
Standard tuning
Am     G      C  C/Am
|-5------0------0---0-|
|-5------1------1---1-|
|-5------0------0---2-|
|-7------0------2---2-|
|-7------2------3---3-|
|-5------3------------|
Am          G
If you were here baby
C  C/Am      C
We would increase the dose
Am    G/B     C C/Am  F/Dm F/D7 F/Dm
|-5------0------0---0---1-----3----1-|
|-5------1------1---1---3-----3----3-|
|-5------0------0---2---2-----2----2-|
|-7------0------2---2---3-----3----3-|
|-7------2------3---3----------------|
|-5------3---------------------------|
Am           G/B
There was no fear in my room
C  C/Am F/Dm F/D7 F/Dm
When we got  close
C7   C7(II) Am(I)* C/F
|-----10-|   |-9-------|
|-----X--|   |-5-----1-|
|-----X--|   |-5-----2-|
|-8---8--|   |-7-----3-|
|-7---7--|   |-0-----3-|
|-8---8--|   |---------|
*I am really not too sure about this chord.
C7                C7(II)
Call me anytime
Am(II)       C/F
You've got a ghost
Am    G(?) C/F  C
|-5----7----1----0-|
|-5----8----1----1-|
|-5----0----2----0-|
|-7---------3----2-|
|-7---------3----3-|
|-5----------------|
Am                      G(?)
You are the only person in the world
C/F            C
I feel that way about
Am              G(?)
When you move off to the side
C/F        C
I get swept back out
Am                G(?)
Where it's cold but not that deep
C/F  C
Cause your legs grow
Am                G(?)
Cold but not that deep
C/F      C
Cause your legs grow
C (just palm mute the 3 fret of the A string)
There is a light that rouses up
from the bottom of the lake
and its beam hast me hard
Now I'm wide awake.
Where it is cold but not that deep
Cause your legs grow
Cold but not that deep
Cause your legs grow
Cold but not that deep
Cause your legs grow
If you were here baby
We would've increased the dose
There was no fear in my room
When we got close
End with X32013.

Source: GuitarMasta.net
http://www.guitarmasta.net/n/nada_surf/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Average	#1 by Riqu - at Dec 23, 1970 at 9:03 AM EST
	Where it's cold but not that deep, cause your legs grow is implying that someone is scared to do something at first, but once they try it they realize that they could do it all along. I don't know if that was a good way to explain it but think of it as when you think about jumping in the water at a young age and you're scared but once you're in you realize that you're fine.

No Picture Marks Average	#2 by Marks at Mar 31, 1980 at 3:38 PM EST
	To me, this song represent faith. To be able to have fatih even though everything is falling apart, about that feeling of calmness you have even though your realtionship is chaos, a calmness that you can't shake off, because you just know that no matter how you treat each other or how everything may seem on the outside, there's still this thing between you that can't be broken... When you feel that it doesn't matter what happens or who we'll become, because you know that there will always be something deeper between the two of you that will bind you together. God... Messy post. But hey, feelings are... Messy.

No Picture Derek Average	#3 by Derek Lamberty at Aug 28, 1985 at 9:40 AM EST
	rockchalk, i think you got it dead on. i've been listening to this song non-stop since it came out on the "Future Soundtrack of America" comp and i'd always been puzzled by the chorus. A couple weeks ago my friend and i were having a heart to heart and she was going through a bad time and said, "well hopefully my legs will grow and get me out of this shit"...and all of a sudden it clicked. so to you, rockchalk, good job at figuring that out and beating me to the punch on posting the meaning. beautiful, beautful song nonetheless. and the version on "The Weight is a Gift" is purely incredible.

No Picture nate Average	#4 by nate eastman at Feb 14, 1989 at 5:38 AM EST
	this is one of nada surf's most personal songs, i think. its beautiful. check plus plus plus exclamation point

No Picture rockman Average	#5 by rockman the sequel at Apr 6, 1993 at 6:42 AM EST
	"cold but not that deep, cos your legs grow" what does that mean? great song regardless.

No Picture Marks Average	#6 by Marks at Oct 2, 2001 at 10:42 AM EST
	I was at a Nada Surf gig just yesterday, and with announcing the song he said: "the next song is a metaphorical song, it's about your legs growing to the bottom of the sea". With that he started playing. So my guess is you being able to stand in the middle of the stone cold ocean is the same metaphor as "the weight is a gift".

No Picture Håvard Average	#7 by Håvard Banne at Mar 8, 2006 at 5:51 AM EST
	What a sweetly beautiful song. Nada Surf's definitely the only band that can make a song like this that sort of sounds haunting but that still sounds so beautiful. And when he says "You're the only person in the world" you can totally hear and feel the like longing in his voice. Well-crafted yet simple.

No Picture chris Average	#8 by chris ovari at Oct 3, 2007 at 6:43 PM EST
	What I got out of it is that he and a person went through some tough times together, and got through it with the help of each other, and now that person is gone, but he wants them to know that if they are ever in need, he will be there with the line "call me anytime you've got a ghost" "And if you move off to the side, I'll get swept back out " I think that it just a metaphor describing a rip current, because in rip currents when you swim to the sides of it, you become free. I think it has a lot to do with how he and that person went through some major event together and now that that person got out of it, he feels sort of helpless. "Where it's cold but not that deep, cause your legs grow." I think that's about the new place the person is in, even though they have gotten out of the current, they are still a tough situation. However he assures them that though it may seem hard, he knows it's not enough to hold the person back. the whole "your legs grow" line I think refers to how strong he sees the person as, that they can persevere over it and in a way, mature from the situation to overcome the situation. "

No Picture Dr. Jack Average	#9 by Dr. Jack at Oct 8, 2007 at 4:19 AM EST
	I have no idea what it means... someone enlighten us.. it's a great song though.. " If you were here, baby we'd increase the dose. There was no fear in my room when we got close. Call me anytime you've got a ghost. You're the only person in the world I feel that way about."

No Picture Mike Average	#10 by Mike at Oct 8, 2007 at 6:13 AM EST
	I think this song is about when you know someone who is either gone having a really hard time, and you care about them so much but there is nothing you can do to make everything right. "And if you move off to the side, I'll get swept back out Where it's cold but not that deep, cause your legs grow." To me, this means that if the other person is unreachable, then he will get lost, "swept out to the ocean" where it is cold and uncomfortable. But as humans, we cope to uncomfortable situations, we do what we need to do to keep going, our legs grow, even if we think they can't. ps ""In my room is, I think, a reference to a side project that Matt Caws did called 'in my room'" this band is so effing adorable its not even funny

No Picture mike Average	#11 by mike duncan at Oct 10, 2007 at 3:31 AM EST
	I was at one of their shows too, and he explained it like this: It's kind of like when you're in too deep in something, and you thing you're gunna drown, and then all of a sudden your legs grow, and it gets you out of the mess you are in. Once you get the meaning, the song is so touching and means so much more. Everyone can identify with it.