Defeater - But Breathing

D-Standard tuning (D-G-C-F-A-d)

Constructive criticism welcome!

    G/B    A2/Dsus  D/F#    Em7     Cadd9
d|---3-------3-------3-------3-------3---|
A|---3-------3-------3-------3-------3---|
F|---0-------2-------0-------0-------0---|
C|---0-------2-------0-------x-------x---|
G|---x-------0-------x-------2-------3---|
D|---3-------x-------2-------0-------x---|


INTRO
G/B - A2/Dsus (x3)
G/B - D/F#
Em7 - A2/Dsus (x3)
Em7 - D/F#


VERSE 1
G/B              -                     -
Unwanted, but breathing in the next room, sleeping
(D/F#)  Em7      -                     - 
 My  mother, she’s crying and my father’s been drinking
(D/F#)    G/B    -                     -
In our run-down apartment where the roof is still leaking
(D/F#)     Em7   -                     -
He’s cursing and cussing it’s just the whiskey talking


CHORUS

(Em7)       Cadd9        -     (Cadd9)   Em7       -
And I’ve got lots of memories like this one
(Em7)   Cadd9            -      (Cadd9)   Em7      -
Of empty days and nights spent tired and lonesome
(Em7)      A2/Dsus       -
When I think back… to all of it
   A2/Dsus    -          -             -                 -
It’s all too much oh it’s all too much when you’re just a little kid

INTRO (x1)

VERSE 2

G/B            -               -
My little brother, just a newborn baby I
(D/F#)   Em7   -               - 
In the image of my mother, says he’s a blessing
(D/F#)  G/B    -               -
But not to my father, oh how he hates him
(D/F#)    Em7  -               -
“An undeserving mistake,” He calls him a burden


CHORUS

(Em7)       Cadd9        -     (Cadd9)   Em7       -
And I’ve got lots of memories like this one
(Em7)   Cadd9            -      (   Cadd9)   Em7   -
Of picking sides and picking fights between them
(Em7)      A2/Dsus       -
When I think back… to all of it
   A2/Dsus    -          -            -            -
It’s all too much oh it’s all too much when you’re just a little kid



BRIDGE
Cadd9     A2/Dsus  Em7     Cadd9        A2/Dsus    Em7    Cadd9
And when I wake up in the morning it all feels like a bad dream
        A2/Dsus  Em7      Cadd9
One that follows you and haunts you endlessly
Cadd9                        G/B
Yeah, haunts me endlessly


VERSE 3
G/B                -               -
     Well, broken and beaten from the abuse and the cheating
(D/F#)   Em7       -               -
The addiction, and the lying and the promise of leaving
(D/F#)     G/B     -               -
While my old man was a bastard, I admired and loved him
(D/F#)   Em7       -               -
And us two kids, we were born in to a family, not a fortune, oh


OUTRO

G/B (x3)
G/B - D/F#
Em7 (x3)
Em7 - D/F#
(x2)
(End on G/B)