Set The Fire To The Third Bar Guitar Tab

Eyes Open Tabs:

Artist: Snow Patrol
Song: Set The Fire To The Third Bar
Album: Eyes Open
Tuning: Standard
Tabber: Calum (afirock74@hotmail.com)
Intro/Verse:
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|----4-----2---0--|
A|----5-----5---5--|
E|--7---7---5---3--|
Riff:
e|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9-10-10-10-10--|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|
Chorus:
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------------|
D|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--|
A|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--|
E|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---------------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--|
End On:
G|-----|
D|-----|
A|-----|
E|--3--|

Source: GuitarMasta.net
http://www.guitarmasta.net/s/snow_patrol/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Berenice Average	#1 by Berenice Issaris at Oct 1, 2007 at 12:30 PM EST
	"dreaming picked up from the last place we left off" ? This song is so, so pretty.

No Picture Justin - MrBlit Rhythm Player	#2 by Justin - MrBlitz - Maletta at Oct 4, 2007 at 3:54 PM EST
	So this could be far fetched, but I think the second verse is talking into the future... After I have travelled so far We'd set the fire to the third bar She is in the second bar...dreaming about being in the third bar with the one she loves, lol. Kinda far fetched I suppose...but I think that is why the song ends she is laying on the cold ground...cause she hasn't reunited with her true love again...but when she does...they will pick up where they left off...none the less very beautiful song...

No Picture by fires light Rhythm Player	#3 by by fires light she cried at Oct 7, 2007 at 3:31 AM EST
	It's an expression. Set the fire to the first bar, second bar, third bar. I think you're readin too much into it other than the possibility it refers to stepping up the passion or the SAFETY(?). I hated this the first time I heard it, but I now absolutely love it. And look, another reference to shutting your eyes and blocking out what you don't want to think about!

No Picture Sir Stuff Professional	#4 by Sir Stuff at Oct 7, 2007 at 1:53 PM EST
	With the map reference, definitely distance between two people.. I somehow hear Waiwright's voice more, maybe being female i can relate to what she is feeling more? She goes to bars but feels cold and lonely without him, and just wishes that she could be with him, in his arms. I think she is dreaming of meeting him - she imagines travelling far to be with him, and the passion will overcome her - when they say, we would set the fire to the third bar,' they are referring to this passion as a fire - it would be so 'hot' - like third degree burns, perhaps? Share each other like an island - i think they are referring to each others bodies / presence, when they will be together - that is all that will matter to them, with the wide sea (world) surrounding them. I think she then dreams of the last time they were together, physically. 'The joy you can't keep in' - could be sexual? Just my thoughts.

No Picture Erin Rhythm Player	#5 by Erin at Oct 7, 2007 at 7:36 PM EST
	Ooh, actually, I think it's; "dreaming pick up from the last place we left off" pick, not pink or picked. :))

No Picture klown Rhythm Player	#6 by klown at Oct 8, 2007 at 5:40 AM EST
	This song is easy to interprate or however the helll you spell it haha. I love it. Let me state the obvious, like many others above stated. There are two people deeply in love, but they are many miles away from eachother. They yearn to be back together again, and are devistated and lonely. Memories often haunt them. They are connected by their strong love for eachother, which like craigross said, is shown by how they both sing the exact same thing throughout the song. Hmm.. by "Bar" do they mean a bar as in like alcahol/people/place/kinda thing or like a bar bar.. like, haha im making myself sound like an idiot, but like a bar as in a bar of difficulty. Or maybe even.. a bar of wood or something? Haha Actually after making myself sound completely ignorant I see that they mean a people/alcahol/place/kinda bar. I GET IT! Then finally when they get back together they are like "screw the bars, i want you" so "set the fire to the third bar"... wow im confusing myself? lmfao xd

No Picture Nikola Rhythm Player	#7 by Nikola Supukovic at Oct 11, 2007 at 9:31 AM EST
	The lyrics to this song are pure poetry – my admiration for the writing skills of Gary Lightbody is immense. Listening to interviews he mentions that this song was written specially for Martha Wainwright. How could she resist being involved …… the poetic beauty of the first four lines, “the distance from A to where you’d B” etc to the way it builds from gentle longing all the way through to spent passion. I think its close to perfection and anyone who criticises modern music should have this song tattoed on their forehead. However, it is not the lyrics alone that make this song a classic; their quality is matched by the gentle dark melody and Wainwright’s haunting vocals that harmonise perfectly with Gary’s soft tones.

No Picture The Mexican Who Average	#8 by The Mexican Who's Living Under Satan's Wing at Oct 14, 2007 at 11:08 AM EST
	I also think that setting the fire to the third bar is just an expression. The lines which say: 'After I have travelled so far We'd set the fire to the third bar We'd share each other like an island Until exhausted, close our eyelids' This is saying to me that, well. the first part of the song is him sizing up the journey and figuring out what he must do and this part is saying to me he's travelled all this way and he's got to her residence and they've set the fire to the third bar, as in an electric heater, and he's so exhausted from the journey that they're enjoying each others company until exhaustion catches up and he falls asleep.

No Picture D-backs, 2006 w Rhythm Player	#9 by D-backs, 2006 world series champions! !! at Oct 15, 2007 at 4:45 PM EST
	um um um... i heard that martha wainwright is his daughter and he wrote this for her while he was away missing her and he sent it to her and then she sang her own version and sent it back and he loved it so much that he put it over their version and trala... i love that story.. true or false.. it'd explain alot.. and the pure young fresh quality of her voice.

No Picture Katie Wanna Be	#10 by Katie St. Michel at Oct 18, 2007 at 3:13 AM EST
	it reminds me of this girl who i really like but nothing can work out at all because one of the reasons being i'm at away at university. when i first listened to it i straightaway thought of her and it definitely touched a nerve or two. if she knew i like this song, maybe that would convince her of my loyalties! lol but yeah thats another matter altogether eh. i agree though with davidecoyote on issues he touches. i also agree with SPrule on the long distance relationship.

No Picture Rhythm Player	#11 by riotsk8team001 (jason) at Oct 19, 2007 at 7:12 AM EST
	quality, i love martha wainwright. the chorus is uplifting in a way reminiscient of "run". her voice reminds me of kate bush. great song.