Artist: The Avett Brothers
Song: The Perfect Space
Album: I and Love and You
Tabbed by: Don Tago
Email: recebedou@yahoo.com



Standard Tuning


Chords used:
    EADGBe
Am: 002210
C:  032010
C5: 3355--
C/B:020010
D:  000232
D5: 5577--
Em: 022000
F:  133211
G:  320033
G5: 3554--



Intro: [C - C/B - Am - F - Am - C], play x2, then, F - Am - C - F - G - C


Verse 1 chords:
  F (133211@1)        C (x32010@1)          F (133211@1)   CI (x32010@1)wanna have friends that I can trust
     Am (x02210@1)            G (320003@1)      F (133211@1)            G (320003@1)   CThat (x32010@1)love me for the man I've become not the man I was
  F (133211@1)        C (x32010@1)          F (133211@1)         CI (x32010@1)wanna have friends that will let me be
    Am (x02210@1)       G (320003@1)    F (133211@1)      G (320003@1)       CAll (x32010@1)alone when being alone is all that I need


Interlude 1: [C - C/B - Am - F - Am - C], play x2


Verse 2: use verse 1 chords
I wanna fit in to the perfect space
Feel natural and safe in a volatile place
And I wanna grow old without the pain
Give my body back to the earth and not complain


Bridge 1 chords:
C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)       Am (x02210@1)   C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)      Am (x02210@1)
Will you understand when I am too old of a man?
    C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1) Am (x02210@1)    C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)      Am (x02210@1)  
And will you forget when we have paid our debt
           G (320003@1)                     FWho (133211@1)did we borrow from? Who did we borrow from?


Interlude 2: [C - G5 - F - F - G5 - C], play x2, then [G5 - D5 - C5], play x2


Verse 3 chords:
G5 (355xxx@1)      D5 (xx023x@1)              C5 (x355xx@1)  EmOkay (022000@1)part two now clear the house
G5 (355xxx@1)        D5 (xx023x@1)           C5 (x355xx@1)                    EmThe (022000@1)party's over take the shouting and the people, get out
G5 (355xxx@1)        D5 (xx023x@1)           C5 (x355xx@1)           EmI (022000@1)have some business and a promise that I have to hold to
G5 (355xxx@1)     D5 (xx023x@1)          C5 (x355xx@1)                      EmI (022000@1)do not care what you assume or what the people told you


Bridge 2 chords:
G5 (355xxx@1) D5 (xx023x@1)     Em (022000@1)   G5 (355xxx@1) D5 (xx023x@1)     EmWill (022000@1)you understand, when I am too old of a man?
G5 (355xxx@1) D5 (xx023x@1)   Em (022000@1)G5 (355xxx@1) D5 (xx023x@1)    EmWill (022000@1)you forget when we have paid our debts
           D5 (xx023x@1)                 CWho (x32010@1)did we borrow from, who did borrow from?


Verse 4 chords:
             G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)    G (320003@1)I wanna have pride like my mother has
    Em (022000@1)         D (xx0232@1)         C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)       GAnd (320003@1)not like the kind in the bible that turns you bad
      C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)   GAnd (320003@1)I wanna have friends that I can trust
     Em (022000@1)            D (xx0232@1)        C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)        GThat (320003@1)love me for the man I've become and not the man that I was