This Aint Livin Tab by G Love And Special Sauce #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 1:21:24 -0400 (EDT) From: DAVID PINIELLA "this aint livin'" by G. Love and Special Sauce from their self titled debut album main intro and verse riff variation (in preverse and a bit in the chorus) |---------------------------|----------------------------------| |---------------------------|----------------------------------| |---------------------------|----------------------------------| |-----8-----5-------6----3--|---------8--5-5--------6--3-------| |-----7-----5-------5----3--|---5/(7)--------3/(5)-------------| |--8-------------6----------|----------------------------------| ^slight palm mute========^ **************************************************************** Interlude Chords: (these are probably wrong, but they're as close as I can get 'em, and they sound okay when played along to the CD.) Gaug(no 3rd) x x 5 0 4 3 Gadd6 x x 5 4 5 3 Fadd6 x x 3 2 3 1 Ddim(no 3rd) x x x 2 3 4 **************************************************************** Lyrics ====== (g. love vox) this town's so hype it's got soul as a Philly cat I'm with the roll and the swing of my things how they work like clockwork tick tock tick tock the time always lurking in your head got to go to work and get fed that man didnt eat but he goes to sleep gets up at dawn not to see the sunrise but because it's too damn cold outside underneath the bridge they pump the city's bilge into the alley they sweep the city's filth the flowers wilt the flowers wilt dont tell me about no game cos that is a man and his family the revolution family look at the family dig the family they're living the wrong way can't get nothing dont get nothing all they wanted was something like a job--mercy mercy but its robbed--mercy mercy and there's so manny street side beggars and disabled veterans glass-eyed and peddling drunk and just meddling you conclude its their fault they like the street they must like the asphalt but that is a man woman and children the system has stalled shelter's home it's not what i call it i call it bad health some say help themselves yo if you gots it every hundred people a dollar in change every hundred people thats a dollar in change this aint living this aint living oh no [interlude] (jasper vox) You know its rough had enough of holding a cup full of spare change doctors diagnosed me as a dome full of bad brains. So, toe to toe with employers cos they're telling me no. Hooked on prescription drugs so i stay broke-ah, I'd run away but you cant run away from yourself or your health so I deal with the cards that I'm dealt tweetle-leet-leet, the morning bird's sounding sweet though I sleep on the streets I have a feeling I'm free of societies' hand picked hypocricy mercy mercy-- dont give a damn for me mercy mercy-- now what am i gonna eat? peek through the window of a restaurant, people eating caviar, fifty bucks on lunch, a hand me down meal full of God knows what put it away in my gut quick and then I wonder why I'm sick brick for brick I know the city like my handprint just a pit in the gutter of a skid row ditch but I'll survive the pain lets me know that I'm alive but I still feel that this aint livin' (g. love and jasper) check my beat, dig my rhythm, me belly full, but me hungry so me fill it. once I start gaining the taxes start taking, cos the government's perfected funk-fakin' breaking me down striking me down what goes around comes around but I keep rising, see'n through the lies and the surprise comes when I see myself, the music I felt, I'm on this aint livin this aint livin oh no ############################################################################# transcribed by dpinie01@servax.fiu.edu (david piniella) comments/corrections/requests welcome ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Intelligence is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is best." [Frank Zappa] "I keep talking just for talking." [G. Love] "...and--those who had a knack for it--lived happily ever after." [Baron Von Munchausen] I am me, these opinions not to be bought, sold, traded/exchanged or collected. ===============dpinie01@servax.fiu.edu/thatguy/uncle meat/dave===============
