Diatonic Harmonica Tabs

 3     5   5   -4    4
We're not the same, dear

-2” 4  4   3  5
As we used to be

 3   -6  6   5     5
The seasons have changed

-1   4  5   -4
And so have we

  3    3  -4 5   5   -4    -4
There was little we could say

-3” 4  4    4   4    2   -2
 Even less that we could do

-2  -2  -2  -6   6    6  5    -4 4
To stop the ice from getting thinner

1 4    4 -3” 3  -4  4
Under   m-e-e  and you

3   5 5    5   -4
We buried our love

1  4  4 4 -3"  5
In a wintery grave

3  -6  6   5   5
A lump in the snow

 4   4   -1   5  -4
Was all that remained

 3  3    5    5  -4   -4
But we stayed by its side

-1  4   4    4     3    3
As the days turned to weeks

 3   3  -6   6    6  5    -4 4
And the ice kept getting thinner

-1    4 4  4 -3” 3  1    -4    4   
With every wo-r-d  that we'd speak

 1   4    4    4     3  3
And when the spring arrived

-1  1    4 4  4   1 -4’
We were taken by surprise

 4    5   -5   5 -4  -4  -3’ -3” 3
When the floes under our fe-e-t

 3   5 -4 4  4   -2”
Bled in-t-o the sea

-2 -2   -2   -5
Nothing was left

-1  -3  -3  4
For you and me

 3     5   5   -4    4
We're not the same, dear

 2  4    4   3  5
And it seems to me

  3     -6  6   6   5  5
There's nowhere we can go

 1    4  4     4 5 -4    
With nothing underneath

 3  3   -4 5   5  -4  -4
And it saddens me to say

-1   4   4    4    3   3
What we both knew was true

 3    3  -6  6    6  5    -4 4
That the ice was getting thinner

1 4  4 -3” 3  -4  4
Under me-e-e and you

 3  -6  6    6  5    -4 4
The ice was getting thinner

1 4  4 -3” 3  -4  4
Under me-e-e and you
Harmonica Tabs Song Info
Title The Ice is Getting Thinner
Artist Death Cab For Cutie
Key C
Harp Type Diatonic

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