Why I dont Believe in God
So Much For The AFterglow
Music By Everclear
Lyrics By Art Alexakis


Intro - For those of you who know harmonics, 
the intro is played by harmonics on the right 
bar of the fret.

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Repeat 4x but on the last time dont do 
the little riff at the end
(Main Riff)
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Break into this>
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I heard the truth about you...

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and it doesn't really read at all like the whipping stick you raised me with

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Scared woman in a private hell hushed voice like electric bells

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Strange talk about Edgar Cayce and the long lame walk of the dark 70's

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Strange talk about Edgar Cayce and the long lame walk of the dark 70's

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I heard the truth about you, yeah you

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Aww Momma they woke me up I was deep in an idiot sleep

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I was just 8 years old, heard big words with a horrble sound

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Why'd they have to call my school, tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown?

Repeat 4x
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I wish i believed like you do

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In the myth of a merciful god, In the myth of a heaven and hell

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I hear the voices you hear sometimes

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Some times it get so much, i feel like letting go

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Sometimes it gets so hard, i feel like letting it go

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Sometimes it gets so goddamn hard I feel like letting it all go

Solo (Try a Slide) Second Guitar play main riff
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I ran Away went looking for you back to Culver City and the old neighborhood

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Need to know if you were really gone, Need to know if you were gone for good

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I ran through the projects at night hide in the dark from my friends in the 
light

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Hide from my brother in law, Hide from the things he'd say

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Ya said you werent losing your mind, he said you just needed a rest

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Said you'd be coming home soon

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Said the doctors there would know whats best, he said that maybe i could
go live with them for a while....

Play a "C"
(Stop Music)
I know the truth about you...
i know the truth about you...

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I know the truth about you
I know the truth
I know the truth 
I know the truth 
I know the truth
I know the truth about you

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Momma they woke me up I was just 8 years old
Sometimes it get so hard
I feel like letting it go

Sometimes it gets so hard 
i feel like leting it all go

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Letting it all go

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Letting it all go

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Letting it all go

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Yeah letting it all go.........