by NADA SURF
from the album THE PROXIMITY EFFECT (1998)


Intro: B5 C5 G5 (repeat)


This riff is used on the verses below.
Deviations in verse 2 & 3 are specified.
e|---5-------3-------0-------0---------------------------------------|
B|-------------0---------------0-----1-------0-----------------------|
G|-----4---------------0---------------2-------0-------2-4-4s5-4-2-4-|
D|---------2-----2-------------------------------2---4---------------|
A|-6-----6---------3-----3-2-----2-0-----0---------2-----------------|
E|-----------------------------------------0-------------------------|

B7/Eb    Em   C             Em/B
When you walk home from the party

Am       Em          B7(addC)
Drunk on bacardi and listening

       B7/Eb       Em  C      Em/B
To the voices that lie to you nightly

Am       Em            |B5         C5 G5 (repeat)|
Make you frightened of everyone


When you walk home from the party
Drunk on bacardi and listening
To the voices that lie to you nightly
                   B7(addC)
Make you sorry for something

You go home and spend your life alone with the stereo
Watching the late show; or force yourself
Out in the night to meet your generation
                                        B   B/Bb  Eb  Abm  Eb  Abm  C#m
You feel like claymation in fluorescent light


B      B/Bb      Eb              Abm
On our knees, we made it hard to see

   Eb              Abm                     C#m
We made it hard to breathe and the air was thin


Coda: ...C#m E5 B5.