[The S-s-s-sound]

SONG: Throwing Off Glass
BAND: The Tragically Hip
ALBUM: In Violet Light (2002)
TABBED BY: Ross Guertin (<!-- e --><a href="mailto:econobuzz@hotmail.com">econobuzz@hotmail.com</a><!-- e -->)
TUNING: EADGBe


E
'Why is the world so creepy?' she asked
After a car full of haircuts drove past
B
A backseat full of 'the boys'
A
I told her that it isn't...
E B
That... that it's exquisite
A E
But like love, it has its barbarous threats

E
Still in spite of the cads
And the stoop-shouldered teens
I know I'm losing you
A
And I know what that means, yea

A G#m
I told her that it isn't
A
That it's real exquisite

But like love,
G#m E
It can have its stubbed-toe effects

C#m B
And just like after she heard
A
The word 'iridescent'
F#m E
And everything was iridescent for a while
C#m B
It wasn't long
A
Before she exalted out of nowhere,
A
'Isn't this exquisite?'

E
Once you've said 'mmm' in unison
And 'oh' in double surprise
And shared relief with a mutual 'phew'
B
And a look in each others' eyes
A
I tell her that it isn't
E B
Insisted that it isn't
B
Because like love
A E
It has too-cunning effects

B A
I told her that it isn't
E B
That it's just exquisite
Because like love
A E
It has its barbarous threats

E
'Why is the world so creepy?' she asked
After a car full of haircuts drove past
A backseat full of 'the boys'
Breaking glass
Throwing off glass