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Life and Times — Life and Times — chord + lyric charts

Track 09 (Tragic Boogie) charted from the FROMAUDIO pass (Moises htdemucs_6s stems). Other LP tracks have stems but the lyrics folder contains songs from the 'Tragic Boogie' LP (2012), not the debut — only Tragic Boogie appears on both. Alignment is timestamp-approximate — verify fine placement by ear. · Built 2026-06-12 14:06

About these chord names. The chord shown is the composite chord — what the rhythm guitar, lead, keys, and bass sound together. The guitar is frequently a power chord or suspension; the upper voicing or the vocal supplies the tone that decides the chord quality. Use the toggle to read in letters, Nashville numbers, or Roman numerals relative to each song's key.
Chord notation

Life and Times — 09 Tragic Boogie

key: Bm
Source: Moises chord analysis from htdemucs_6s stems. Key: B minor, 5:03.
Verse: Bm – D (i – bIII). Bridge: F (bV) — tritone from B, the defining tension chord.
Other tracks on the LP have stems but no matching lyrics in this folder.

Chord Vocabulary

Key: B minor. Scale: B, C#, D, E, F#, G, A

  • **Bm** = i (tonic minor — the anchor; every section returns here; "doomed astronauts" lands here)
  • **D** = bIII (relative major — the verse partner; borrowed warmth against the minor tonic)
  • **G** = bVI (borrowed flat sixth — "drive to work another way" opens here)
  • **F** = bV (tritone below B — the most dissonant chord in the song; arrives in the bridge passage at 2:28, held for 6 bars)
  • **B** = I Picardy (tonic major — the intro Picardy flash before the minor sets in)

    • The F chord is the song's harmonic risk. A tritone away from B, it shouldn't work in a rock song — but Life and Times uses it at the exact moment of "we're doomed astronauts / we're flying in rings around my eyes," which is also the moment of maximum lyrical drift. The harmony and the lyric reach for the same unreachable place.

    [Intro — 0:00]
B    Bm    B
(clean guitar, Picardy flash before minor tonic locks in)

[Verse 1 — 0:22]
Bm                     D
My suit for spaceflight will shield me from light
Bm                            D
So we stare straight at the sun, gun set for stun
Bm                             D
And as we circle my eyes they count the days
Bm                                  D
So we blast out into the night and aim for the light

Bm
We're floating in space in search of our home with no radio
Bm
In rockets we sleep and hope it's a dream forgotten when we awake

[Chorus — 1:10]
G               Bm
Drive to work another way
G               Bm
Drifting deeper into space
G               D
Fall asleep at traffic lights
D               Bm
Drift and dream of some new life

[Verse 2 — 1:45]
Bm                        D
So we race satellites and I run and play
Bm                    D
And we dance 'cause we're lost, we're doomed astronauts
Bm                            D
We're flying in rings around my eyes
Bm
We count the days

[Bridge — 2:25]
F    F    F    F
(F held — tritone tension, 6 bars)
F    F
(the most dissonant passage on the album — no resolution)

[Chorus 2 — 2:55]
G               Bm
Drive to work another way
D               Bm
Drifting deeper into space
G               D
Fall asleep at traffic lights
Bm
Drift and dream of your new life

[Extended Outro — 3:30]
Bm   D   Bm   D
(guitar solo over the verse chords)
Bm
(fade on Bm — no arrival, just drift)