• Song:

    A Lifetime Acoustic

  • Artist:

    Better Than Ezra

My first tab, yay!

"A Lifetime" - Better Than Ezra - Acoustic Version
**CAPO 2**

Chord Variations
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C (x32010@1)     x32010
G (320003@1)     320003
D/F#m   200232
Cadd9   x32033
G*      320033
Dsus2 (xx0230@1) 200233      
D (xx0232@1)     xx0232
Am (x02210@1)    x02210
Am7     x02010
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C (x32010@1)            GAllie (320003@1)woke up 8AM
D/F#m
Graduation day.
Cadd9
Got into a car,
G*                 Dsus2And (xx0230@1)crashed along the way.

C (x32010@1)                  GWhen (320003@1)we arrived late to the wake,
Dsus2
Stole the urn while they looked away,
Cadd9
And drove to the beach
          G*                 D/F#m
'Cause I knew you'd want it that way.

Am (x02210@1)                         Am7And (x02010@1)you were standing on the hood of the car
C (x32010@1)                    D/F#m
Singing out loud when the sun came up.

*CHORUS:*
      C (x32010@1)                  GAnd (320003@1)I know I wasn't right,
                Dsus2But (xx0230@1)it felt so good.
Cadd9 (x32030@1)                      G*
And your mother didn't mind,
                    D/F#m
Like I thought she would.
         C (x32010@1)          GAnd (320003@1)that REM song was playing 
       DIn (xx0232@1)my mind.
     Am (x02210@1)                 Am7 (x02010@1)  CAnd (x32010@1)three and a half minutes
DFelt (xx0232@1)like a lifetime...
                     C (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)  D/F#m
It felt like a lifetime

*BRIDGE*         
                   C (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)   D/F#m
And you move like water (yeah...)
                Cadd9 (x32030@1)  G*      Dsus2I (xx0230@1)could drown in you.  
               C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)    D/F#m
And I fell so deep once, (yeah...)
                   Cadd9 (x32030@1)  G*     Dsus2Till (xx0230@1)you pulled me throoough (ohh ohh...)
  Dsus2 (xx0230@1)     
You would tell me
Am (x02210@1)                  Am7 (x02010@1)      
"No one is allowed to be so proud
C (x32010@1)                             D/F#m
They never reach out when they're giving up."
       C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)          
And I know I wasn't right,
                Dsus2But (xx0230@1)it felt so good.
         Cadd9 (x32030@1)             G*
And your mother didn't mind,
                   D/F#m
Like I thought she would.
         C (x32010@1)           GAnd (320003@1)that REM song was playing
Dsus2
In my mind.
Am (x02210@1)                   Am7 (x02010@1)  CAnd (x32010@1)three and a half minutes
DFelt (xx0232@1)like a lifetime...

C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)           D/F#m
Are you sitting in the lights?
                Cadd9 (x32030@1)        G*
Or combing your hair again,
               Dsus2And (xx0230@1)talking in rhymes?
Cadd9 (x32030@1)  G*           Dsus2D/F#m (xx0230@1)Are you sitting in the liiiights?

(softly...)
C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)     
When I got home, heard the phone,
         DYour (xx0232@1)parents had arrived.
C (x32010@1) 
And your dad set his jaw
G (320003@1)                      DYour (xx0232@1)mom just smiled and sighed.
(getting louder...)
C (x32010@1)                      GBut (320003@1)they left soon and I went to my room.
D/F#m
Played that disc that you'd given me,
       Cadd9 (x32030@1)      G*
And I shut my eyes
                     Dsus2Swear (xx0230@1)I could hear the sea...

Am (x02210@1)                         Am7When (x02010@1)we were standing on the hood of your car
C (x32010@1)                        DSinging (xx0232@1)out loud when the sun came up.
     
*CHORUS*
       C (x32010@1)              GAnd (320003@1)I know I wasn't right,
                Dsus2But (xx0230@1)it felt so good.
       Cadd9 (x32030@1)              G*
And your mother didn't mind,
                   D/F#m
Like I thought she would.
          C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)          DAnd (xx0232@1)that REM song was playing in my mind.
Am (x02210@1)                  Am7 (x02010@1)      CAnd (x32010@1)three and a half minutes,
Dsus2 (xx0230@1)     Am7 (x02010@1)      CThree (x32010@1)and a half minutes,
D (xx0232@1)          GFelt (320003@1)like a lifetime.
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