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Defeater - But Breathing                D standard tuning (DCGFAD)

This is my first tab so i hope it is 100% correct. It sure sounds it to me.

G     D/F    Em    Cadd9    Am   When you listen to the song there's one higher
   |3|    |3|    |3|    |3|     |3|  note when he plays the "G" 
   |3|    |3|    |3|    |3|     |3|  and the "Em." To get that pull of on the 2nd
   |0|    |2|    |0|    |0|     |2|  fret Cstring (x32010@1)of the Gand (320003@1)go to 
   |0|    |0|    |2|    |2|     |2|  the 2nd fret Fstring. (133211@1)With the Empull (022000@1)off 
   |2|    |0|    |2|    |3|     |0|  the 2nd fret Gstring (320003@1)and go to
   |3|    |2|    |0|    |0|     |0|  the 2nd fret Fstring. (133211@1):) You can fit it in
                                     yourself. (all D/Fare (100232@1)really Dsus4/F#.)

INTRO:
G D/F Em D/F
G D/F Em D/F (End on G)

GUnwanted, (320003@1)but breathing
                        
In the next room, sleeping
D/F   Em
My mother, shes crying
                           
And my fathers been drinking
D/F (100232@1)  GIn (320003@1)our run-down apartment

Where the roof is still leaking
D/F  Em
Hes cursing and cussing

Its just the whiskey talking

D/F (100232@1)        Cadd9 (x32030@1)               EmAnd (022000@1)Ive got lots of memories like this one
   Cadd9 (x32030@1)                               GOf (320003@1)empty days and nights spent tired and lonesome
       AmWhen (x02210@1)I think back to all of it
     Cadd9Its (x32030@1)all too much

Oh its all too much when youre just a little kid

MID-BRIDGE:
G D/F Em D/F (End on G)

GMy (320003@1)little brother, just a newborn baby
D/F (100232@1)  EmIn (022000@1)the image of my mother, says hes a blessing
D/F (100232@1)G (320003@1)
But not to my father, oh how he hates him
 D/F (100232@1)  Em (022000@1)An undeserving mistake, He calls him a burden

D/F (100232@1)        Cadd9 (x32030@1)               Em (022000@1)And Ive got lots of memories like this one
   Cadd9 (x32030@1)                          GOf (320003@1)picking sides and picking fights between them
       Am (x02210@1)   
When I think back to all of it
           Cadd9Well, (x32030@1)its all too much

Well, its all too much when youre just a little kid

G (320003@1)        Cadd9 (x32030@1)        G (320003@1)            Cadd9 (x32030@1)          G (320003@1)  
And when I wake up in the morning it all feels like a bad dream
         Cadd9 (x32030@1)         G (320003@1)               Cadd9One (x32030@1)that follows you and haunts you endlessly
                          GYeah, (320003@1)haunts me endlessly oh

Well, broken and beaten from the abuse and the cheating
D/F Em
The addiction, and the lying and the promise of leaving
D/F (100232@1)     GWhile (320003@1)my old man was a bastard, I admired and loved him
D/F (100232@1)   EmAnd (022000@1)us two kids, we were born in to a family, not a fortune, no

OUTRO:
G D/F Em D/F
G D/F Em D/F (End on G)
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