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Intro: Mandolin solo
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Do this part 4 times Do this second part 2 times
At the same time in mandolin 1st part, heres guitar first part
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E C#m A9 B>
Verse 1:
E C#m A9 B
One day you'll see her and you'll know what I mean.
E C#m A9 B Cdim
Take her or leave her she will still be the same.
C#m G# A5 B
She'll not try to buy you with her time.
E C#m A9 B
But nothing's the same as you will see when she's gone.
Chorus 1:
A B C#m F#m A
It's foreign on this side, and I'll not leave my home again.
B C#m Bbdim A
There's no place to hide and I'm nothing but scared.
Verse 2: (do verse 1 pattern)
You dream of colors that have never been made.
You imagine songs that have never been played.
They will try to buy you and your mind.
Only the curious have something to find.
Chorus 2: (do chorus 1 pattern)
It's foreign on this side and the truth is a bitter friend.
But reasons few have I to go back again.
Verse 3:
Your first dawn blinded you, left you cursing the day.
Entrance is crucial and it's not without pain.
There's no path to follow, once you're here.
You'll climb up the slide and then you'll slide down the stairs.
Chorus 3:
It's foreign on this side, but it feels like I'm home again.
B C#m Bbdim A
There's no place to hide but I don't think I'm scared.
B Cdim C#m
There's no place to hide but I don't think I'm scared.
Bbdim A B E
There's no place to hide but I don't think I'm scared.
Outro: Do mandolin 2nd part pattern.
Mandolin solo
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Dan Average |
#1 by Dan Johnson at Dec 4, 1977 at 7:04 AM EST |
| I love this song. Some of the words are hard to understand, but I love the beat and the strings. | |
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ian Average |
#2 by ian mckinly at Jul 5, 1986 at 1:59 AM EST |
| To me this is a coming of age song. The first entrance into adulthood can be harder than imagined as a teenager. "It's foreign on this side and the truth is a bitter friend." But eventually you get used to it and come to love the new experiences that it brings. "It's foreign on this side but it feels like I'm home again. There's no place to hide but I don't think I'm scared." I don't think that is excactly what Sean Watkins is writing about, but that's how it fits into my life at the moment. Perhaps he is writing about his experience with becoming famous. Or perhaps it is about love. No matter what it is specifically about, it is a great song. I love his song writing. I hope the new album coming out has a good chunk of his compositions on it. | |
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jordan Porreca Lead Player |
#3 by jordan Porreca porreca at Jul 8, 1986 at 3:58 AM EST |
| my favorite song. it's not literally about being foreign, but Nickel Creek is a band up for interpretation. It's about transition, he's terrified in the beginning, and content at the end. | |
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IM A MAN WHO C Rhythm Player |
#4 by IM A MAN WHO CHANGED INTO A BEAST at Dec 13, 1991 at 3:32 AM EST |
| to me the song makes me think of moving...a lot of the lyrics apply to exactly how i feel right now. i've lived in one country my whole life, even though i'm not from that country. then i went to college and i had to leave to go to the states, which is technically where i'm from, except i've never lived there. when i come back home to visit (like right now), i listen to this song a lot because it makes me feel better. "it's foreign on this side"--i'm technically in a foreign country, even though i grew up here. "reasons few have i, to go back again"--i really don't want to go back to the states. "it's foreign on this side, but it feels like i'm home again"--that's exactly it. it just fits. i'm sure that's not what the songwriter mean when he/she wrote it, but that's just what i get out of it. | |
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kostas Rhythm Player |
#5 by kostas kouveliotis at Oct 16, 2005 at 8:03 PM EST |
| I was just in philosophy class the other day and it make me think of this song. If anyone ever reads Plato's Cave from his Republic, you will know what I mean. It says that once the person leaves the cave (which is their oblivion and ignorance), this will happen to them: "And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take and take in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him?" This reminds me exactly of: "your first dawn blinded you, left you cursing the day entrance is crucial and it's not without pain there's no path to follow, once you're here you'll climb up the slide and then you'll slide down the stairs" I guess you'd have to read the whole Cave allegory to know what I'm talking about it. But I definitely see a correlation! | |
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