• Song:

    Everyones A Junkie

  • Artist:

    Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace - "Everyone's A Junkie"
From the Album "Spiritual Machines"
Eb tuning
tabbed by jjhand


First Verse - No guitar until 0:13

Lyrics:
"I'm not waiting for the answers   on a Sunday afternoon 
I'm just too drunk to remember   why I always slip through"


  Short part (0:13 and 0:19)
eb|-------------|            
Bb|-------------|            
Gb|-------------|            
Db|-7-----7-----|            
Ab|-------------|            
Eb|----5--------|            

  "The drugs and fake ambition Have been helping me to hide
   But it's the endless television That has kept me inside"




Prechorus (0:25) - Add Distortion
|-------------------------------------|--------|
|-------------------------------------|--------|
|--------------x-5-5-5-5----x-5--5\---|--------|
|-x-7-7-7-7----x------------x---------|--rest--|
|-x------------x-3-3-3-3----x-3--3\---|-4beats-|
|-x-5-5-5-5---------------------------|--------|
"Where does it stop? Where does it end? 
Where do we go? Why am I always complaining?"

|-------------------------------------|----------------|
|-------------------------------------|----------------|            
|--------------x-5-5-5-5----x-5--5--5-|----------------|            
|-x-7-7-7-7----x------------x---------|-7-----7--7-7-7-|
|-x------------x-3-3-3-3----x-3--3--3-|----------------|            
|-x-5-5-5-5---------------------------|----------5-5-5-|            
I can be good, I can be bad, I can be loved But everything's gone"




Chorus - play this 2x

strumming pattern in eighths (e) and sixteenths (s) is shown

   s s s s e  s s  s s s s s s e    e  s s e  s s s s s s s s s s
e|-3---------------------------0--|-0-------------3---------------|
B|-3---------------3--------------|-0-------------3---------------|
G|-0---------------2--------------|-2-------------5---------------|
D|-0---------------0--------------|-2-------------5---------------|
A|-2------------------------------|-0-------------3---------------|
E|-3------------------------------|-------------------------------|
   Gb              Db_sus2           Ab_sus2       Bsus2

  "Black      You're looking for that sun      You're looking for that"

   s s s s e  s s  s s s s s s e    Q      Q      Q      e.    s
e|-3---------------------------0--|----------------------0-----0-|
B|-3---------------3--------------|----------------------3-----3-|
G|-0---------------2--------------|-0------0------0------2-----2-|
D|-0---------------0--------------|-3------3------3------0-----0-|
A|-2------------------------------|-3------3------3--------------|
E|-3------------------------------|-1----0-1----0-1--------------|
   Gb              Db_sus2          Esus2                

  "light       Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way" 



Verse 2 - No Guitar except random guitar feedback

Lyrics:

"I'm not asking for forgiveness
For the things that I don't know
But I'm really not that different
You just made me think so"


Prechorus 2 - 
|-------------------------------------|----------------|
|-------------------------------------|----------------|            
|--------------x-5-5-5-5----x-5--5--5-|----------------|            
|-x-7-7-7-7----x------------x---------|-7-----7--7-7-7-|
|-x------------x-3-3-3-3----x-3--3--3-|----------------|            
|-x-5-5-5-5---------------------------|----------5-5-5-|            
 "I can be good, I can be bad, I can be loved But everything's gone"



Chorus 2 - Same as Before, but end chorus with:

   s s s s e  s s  s s s s s s e                      
e|-3---------------------------0--|----------------------------|
B|-3---------------3--------------|----------------------------|
G|-0---------------2--------------|-0------0------0------0-----|
D|-0---------------0--------------|-3------3------3------3-----|
A|-2------------------------------|-3------3------3------3-----|
E|-3------------------------------|-1----0-1----0-1----0-1---0-|
   Gb              Db_sus2          Esus2                

  "light       Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way" 




Then...

Guitar Feedback with lyrics "Big green monkey, everyones a junkie"


Bridge (1:56) play 2x
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-7----7----7-feedback--|
|-----------------------|
|-5----5----5-----------|


Repeat Lyrics:
"Big Green Monkey, everyones a junkie (oh oh oh)"  with guitar feedback




Play Chorus as was done in Chorus 2, but add a bar like this:


   s s s s e  s s  s s s s s s e                      
|-3---------------------------0--|----------------------------|
|-3---------------3--------------|----------------------------|
|-0---------------2--------------|-0------0------0------0-----|
|-0---------------0--------------|-3------3------3------3-----|
|-2------------------------------|-3------3------3------3-----|
|-3------------------------------|-1----0-1----0-1----0-1---0-|
  Gb              Db_sus2          Esus2                

 "light       Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way"


|---------------------------|
|-3----3-3----3-3----3-3--3-|
|-5----5-5----5-5----5-5--5-|
|-5----5-5----5-5----5-5--5-|
|-3----3-3----3-3----3-3--3-|
|---------------------------|
  Bsus2
 "And I'll remember this someday"


Repeat Chorus 2 again



Ending
|--------------------|
|-3------------------|
|-5------------------|
|-5------------------|
|-3------------------|
|--------------------|

         "Big green monkey, everyones a junkie"



Key
| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| x  Mute note
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