This is a great song but i couldn't find any tabs for this so i just tabbed it out
myself and i'm pretty sure this is 100% accurate so check it out.
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Standard Tuning: EADGBe
Capo: 3th Fret
Chords: (written as used without capo)
C9 G D C
e | -3---- | --3--- | --2--- | --0--- |
B | -3---- | --3--- | --3--- | --1--- |
G | -0---- | --0--- | --2--- | --0--- |
D | -2---- | --0--- | --0--- | --2--- |
A | -3---- | --2--- | --0--- | --3--- |
E | -x---- | --3--- | --0(2) | --3--- |
Okay, so the most 'tricky' part
(as far as you wanna call it tricky)
is the rhytm of the Cadd9 and the G chords..
The rhytm of these two particular chords
is used troughout the whole song except
for the chorus..
C9 G
e | -------3----3--333--
B | -------3----0--000--
G | -------0----0--000--
D | -----2-2----0--000--
A | ---3---3----2--222--
E | -------x----3--333-- (repeated)
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[Intro:] (guitar kicks in just before the laughing part)
C9 , G , C9 , G ,
C9 , G , D , C (repeat 2x times)
[Verse:]
C9 G C9 G
You live out where the street ends
C9 G D C
in a basement apt. with one of your friends
C9 G
and the tap drips all night
C9 G
water torture in the sink
C9 G
The furnace is burning
D C C9 G
but it's still cold i think ___
C9 , G , C9 , G , D , C
C9 G
I can smell the bleach
C9 G
that they use in the hall
C9 G D C
but it can't clean the dirt off of me
C9 G
It's seeping under the door
C9 G
in across the floor
C9 G
it's starting to hurt
[Chorus:]
( D ) ( C ) C9 G C9
Everytime I breatthe__ |
G C9 G D C
Everytime I try to leave__ |
C9 G D C
Everytime I breathe_____ |
[Verse:]
C9 G
Now the toaster sticks
C9 G
and the empties are piled
C9 G D C
I haven't been up the stairs in awhile now
C9 G
I gotta wash the sheets on my bed
C9 G
gotta watch the things that go unsaid
C9 G D C
God I wish we'd leave it at this____ |
[Repeat Chorus] (except the beginning D & C
chords wich are already
played at the end of verse)
[Verse]
D
And every evening you open the door
C
You come down
D C
There's nothing like watching tv all night on the ground
D C
and no one is watching me slide
D
below street level
C (pump up this chord, get ready for the chorus)
barely alive
[Instrumental] (chords from the chorus)
[Last verse]
C9 G C9 G
Now we live out where the street ends
C9 G C9 G
in a basement apt. just like our friends
C9 G
We always said that we were different
Cadd0 G
but you know now that we weren't
C9 G
'cause there's holes in all the bottles
D C
and my lungs hurt___ |
[Repeat Chorus]