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Lousy Truth - Nevershoutnever
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Tabbed by: MitchellMote
Email: mitchellmote@hotmail.com
Comments:
I am positive this is 100% correct.
Check out the music video on Youtube for the finger picking.
Pretty simple, hope you enjoy!
I tabbed this by ear, or chorded. Whatever you want to say.
I am not 100% sure about the lyrics. I wrote them all out as they sounded on the music video.
Chords
E1 C Am G7 or G
E-0 E-x E-x E-3
A-x A-3 A-0 A-2
D-x D-2 D-2 D-0
G-x G-0 G-2 G-0
B-x B-1 B-1 B-0
e-x e-0 e-0 e-1 or 3
G/B
E-x
A-2
D-0
G-0
B-1
e-0
Tuning: EADGBe
CAPO 2nd
Verse 1:
C G
Girl, I've been thinking a lot
C C
About who we could have been
G C G
If I was back home just chillin'
C
with you and all my friends
C G/B Am
But dear I'm gone
G C
and that's the lousy truth
Verse 2:
C G C
For the past 3 years
G C
I swear I've been a better man
C G C
than who I've become
G C
I know, I know, I know I let you down
C G/B Am
But I've been gone
G C
for too damn long
Chorus:
C E1 G
So if you go away right now,
then I can guarantee
C G/B Am
that I won't break your heart
E1 G
But if you go and stay,
then baby I will hope and pray
C G/B Am
that you would run a - way
G/B C G/B Am
Cause dear it breaks my heart
G C
to see you here
Verse 3:
G C G
So shine outward, not inward
C
You've been a selfish little girl
G C
For the past 3 years
G C
I've been through more than you can know
G/B Am
and God I don't
G C
want you to know
C G C
What I have been through
G C
cause you just wouldn't understand
G C G
you're just a girl with some issues
C
as bad as it might sound
C G/B Am
But you're the girl
G C
who's been driving me mad
Chorus 2:
C E1 G
So if you go away right now,
then I can guarantee
C G/B Am
that I won't break your heart
E1 G
But if you go and stay,
then baby I will hope and pray
C G/B Am
that you would run a - way
G/B C G/B Am
Cause dear it breaks my heart
G C G/B
to see you here
Am C G
So go to school in Chicago
Am C
find a new boy, a new life,
G
a whole new set of friends
Am C G
Cause all that I'll ever do is break your heart
Am G
and dear it breaks my heart
C
to see you here
C G/B Am G
Yeah, dear it breaks my heart
C
to see you here
(Silence)
But just so you know...
C G
I've been thinking a lot of
C C
who we could have been
G C
if i was back home,
G C
just chilling with you and all my friends
G/B Am
But dear, I'm gone
G C
and that's the lousy truth.
