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Not Your Savior - Joey Cape (acoustic version)
From the album; Joey Cape and Tony Sly acoustic

Standard tuning : EADGBe

Note that there's a little variation in the G chord :   3-2-0-0-3-0

Intro(2x) C Em F G

e|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
G|-12(3x)-----12(3x)------12(2x)------|-12(3x)-----12(3x)-----12(2x)-----|
D|-------10(3x)-----10(3x)------10(2x)|-------9(3x)------9(3x)------9(2x)|
A|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|

e|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
G|-10(3x)-----10(3x)-----10(2x)-----|-12(3x)-----12(3x)-----12(2x)-----|
D|-------7(3x)------7(3x)------7(2x)|-------9(3x)------9(3x)------9(2x)|
A|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|

Verse 1 :
C (x32010@1)     F (133211@1)       C (x32010@1)Cadd9 (x32030@1)                         C (x32010@1)       Cadd9 (x32030@1)name="chord_x02210@1">Am
Unlucky seventeen,         already handed plans for the future
C (x32010@1)        F (133211@1)                G (320003@1)                     CGlamour (x32010@1)obsessed, told how to dress, and shown how to think
              F (133211@1)      C (x32010@1)name="chord_x32030@1">Cadd9                           C (x32010@1)   Cadd9 (x32030@1)AmAnd (x02210@1)I don't have a job,        but I can show you how to be a slob
C (x32010@1)     F (133211@1)              GSo (320003@1)many days, wasted and glazed
              C (x32010@1)  Cadd9 (x32030@1)    FSometimes (133211@1)I laugh aloud as I think about,
     C (x32010@1)                       DYou (xx0232@1)asking me "Please can you help?"
               FCan't (133211@1)help my self

Chorus 1 :
G (320003@1)             C (x32010@1)                  GI'm (320003@1)not your savior, I'm not who you want me to be
     F (133211@1)                             G (320003@1)                          CA (x32010@1)cowardly mistake I've made so many times before, refusing to break
             Em (022000@1)                              FCut (133211@1)my losses ties them with you, like a good boy I'll pretend
Fm (133111@1)                       C (x32010@1)   Cadd9 (x32030@1) Am (x02210@1)G (320003@1)F (133211@1)G (320003@1)CAnd (x32010@1)promise not to do it again


e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---9 -------9-7--------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------9---10---9--------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------10---7---10-------------8---7------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|


Verse 2 :
         F (133211@1)        C (x32010@1)Cadd9 (x32030@1)                      C (x32010@1)        Cadd9 (x32030@1)name="chord_x02210@1">Am
Do you remember when,        life was so simple and permanent?
C (x32010@1)        F (133211@1)                   G (320003@1)             CEveryone's (x32010@1)changed, "Everyone's cool", Everyone sucks
Cadd9 (x32030@1)     F (133211@1)                C (x32010@1)                          DBut (xx0232@1)I can't seem to complain, Exciting and new is just not there
                FYou're (133211@1)getting scared


Chorus 2 :
G (320003@1)              C (x32010@1)                GI'm (320003@1)not your savior, never thought I was anyway
       F (133211@1)                         GI'm (320003@1)a void with empty promises that backs out late
                 C (x32010@1)                   EmNever (022000@1)said I'd change, taking back the words that we spoke
          F (133211@1)                 Fm (133111@1)                          CLike (x32010@1)a fuel tank running dry,     you'll believe it when I choke
Em (022000@1)name="chord_133211@1">F G (320003@1)                       C (x32010@1)   you'll believe it when I choke

Em F G C Em F G C .....(Same pattern as the intro for both guitars and it goes on and on 
fading out!)

P.S. I'm still beginning at writing tabs so do not hesitate correcting it!

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