ACCELERATE: SING FOR THE SUBMARINE

   It's entirely possible that this is the first song where Michael is really thinking about legacy leading into their final album. Starting with the 'Auctioneer' style sound and following through with the name dropped older tunes including 'Electron Blue,' 'Feeling Gravitys Pull,' 'ITEOTWAWKI.' and 'High Speed Train' and then placing us in the futuristic world of Blade Runner with the mention of Tyrell's Mechanical Owl he's placing those tracks in a recognizable world. The visualization of which is the city Michael designed as the album art and the feeling of the song is of a distinctly different personality in an artist pulled in two directions. Here's the Michael who oversees all of the art direction of the band, and here's the singer, so the submarine becomes the way to compartmentalize, but also a time capsule for the future. A brilliant song really. And some amazing sounds here for the band, Mike's vocalized harmonies are transcendent, Peter's play on Radiohead is smooth as hell, and let's acknowledge Scott and Bill as the backups here--some very cool and thematic things happening. It's sad that the last two songs don't really build on the idea of this song, but it makes me wonder what comes out of these guys if they spend another month writing.





SING FOR THE SUBMARINE

It feels in dreams that everything’s there for you
The city breathes and pulses
It's fuel electron blue

I knew that you could see right through it
So this is where you give in to the machine
Lift up your voice feel gravitys pull
And drown out the sirens ring

Ohhhh

It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
Than we would’ve had it be
And that's the good news, my darling
It is what it's going to be, so

Sing, sing for the submarine

I tried to explain how it all begins
How it’s all destroyed and built again
I knew that you could not believe me
But now you're here and it's different
How the light shines in your eyes
In every second a century
It's then that I realized
The world as we know it, the high speed train
We'll pick it all up and start again

It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
Than we would’ve had it be
And that's the good news, my darling
It is what it's going to be, so

Sing, sing for the submarine

The city did not collapse in a shudder
The rain it never came
At least my confessions made you laugh
I know it's a little crazed
But these dreams they seem so real to me

It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
Than we would’ve had it be
And that's the good news, my darling
It is what it's going to be, so

Sing, sing for the submarine

And so this is where you trust me
That this is where it begins
It's all a lot less frightening
We’re here in the interim
Tyrell and his mechanical owl
A moth disguised as a leaf

Don't tell me what tomorrow brings
We climb into the hidden machine and
Sing sing sing

Sing sing sing
Sing sing for the submarine

   Some marvelous overlays here, but nothing too fancy. Simply otherworldly. I don't have much more to say except it's a cool mix of Auctioneer and Around The Sun style chords (that is to say, there's a Dm). Love the walkdown at the end of the Chorus.

SING FOR THE SUBMARINE

Verse (Guitar 1)

e|----0------0---|----0----|

B|-----0------0--|-----0---|

G|-4-4--4-4-4----|-3-3-----|

D|-4----4-4------|-4-------|

A|-2----2>3------|-4-------|

E|-----(repeat)--|-2-------|

Verse (Guitar 2)

e|--------------------------------|

B|--------------------------------|

G|-4---5---7---9---4---5---7---5--|

D|-x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x--|

A|-2---3---5---7---2---3---5---3--|

E|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--|

e|---------------------------------|--(repeat)--|

B|---------------------------------|------------|

G|-4---5---7---9---4---5---7---12--|-11---9>11--|

D|-x---x---x---x---x---x---x----x--|--x---x--x--|

A|-2---3---5---7---2---3---5---10--|--9---7>-9--|

E|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0----0--|--0---0--0--|

Chorus (Am-Dm) Guitar 2

e|------------------------------17-12-----------------------------|

B|-13------------10------------------13-13-15h-13--10-------------|

G|-----------------10-10-12h-10----------------------10-10-12h-10-|

D|---10-10-12h-10-------------------------------------------------|

A|----------------------------------------------------------------|

E|----------------------------------------------------------------|

e|-12------------------------------|

B|---13------------10--------------|

G|-------------------10-10-12h-10--|

D|-----10-10-12h-10----------------|

A|---------------------------------|

E|---------------------------------|

Chorus (C-Em) Guitar 2

e|-------------------|

B|-------------------|

G|----12-9-----12-9--|

D|-10-----10-9-------|

A|-------------------|

E|-------------------|

2^nd Verse Fill

e|----------------------------------|

B|-7------7------8-7---5-7---7-5-7--|

G|----------------------------------|

D|----------------------------------|

A|----------------------------------|

E|----------------------------------|

Middle 8 Guitar 1

D|-4-4-9-8-8-12-11-11-12-14-7-4-4-9-8-8-12-11-11-12-14-12-|

A|-x-x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x--x-x-x-x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x--x--x-|

E|-2-2-7-6-6-10--9--9-10-12-5-2-2-7-6-6-10--9--9-10-12-10-|

D|-4-4-9-8-8-12-11-11-12-14-7-9---|

A|-x-x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x--x-x-x---|

E|-2-2-7-6-6-10--9--9-10-12-5-7---|

Middle 8 Guitar 2 (End)

e|--------------9---12-14-13-14---|

B|--------------------------------|

G|-9^-10^-11^---------------------|

D|--------------------------------|

A|--------------------------------|

E|--------------------------------|

End on Am