• Song:

    The First Single

  • Artist:

    The Format

  • Album:

    EP

Song: The First Single
Band: The Format
Album: Interventions & Lullabies
Tabbed By: Todd Urness




Chord Formations:

  E2   E   A  C#m  B
e|-7---0---5---4---2-|
B|-9---0---5---5---4-|
G|-9---1---6---6---4-|
D|-9---2---7---6---4-|
A|-7---2---7---4---2-|
E|-7---0---5---4---2-|





Intro/Riff 1  (Guitar 2 will play the chords next time this riff is played)


    E2                         A                E2
e|----0---0---0-----0---0-----0---0---0---4-2-0----0-2---4-2-0-0-|
B|--4---4---5---0-4---4---4-5---2---0---0-0-0-0--5-----5-------0-|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|





Verse:


    C#m                            A              E                         
  "I can't stand to think about a heart so big it hurts like hell"   


    C#m                             A                    E                         
  "Oh my God I gave my best but for three whole years to end like this"


    C#m                             A              E                    
  "Do you want to fall apart?  I can't stop if you can't start"


    C#m                   B               A                                  
   "Do you want...       ...fix what I've undone 'cause I hate what I've become"



Chorus:


    E                   B                                             
   "You know me or you think you do, you just don't seem to see"


    A                                     C#m          B                     
   "I've been waiting all this time to be something I can't define"


       E                    B                                               
   "So let's cause a scene, clap our hands and stomp our feet or..."


    A                                     C#m               B                 
   "...something, yeah something, I've just got to get myself over me"



Play Riff 1 


2nd Verse same as 1st except with Riff 1 being played throughout


Chorus


Bridge:




E    B     A      -> (While these chords are strummed repeat riff 2 over and over)

 
Riff 2:

e|---4----4-----4-|
B|-----5----5-----|
G|-4-----4----4---|
D|----------------|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|


Chorus (At the end of the chorus play C#m and B again while he repeats "Over Me Yeah, Over Me" then
        end it off with the E chord)





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