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                    SLIGHT FIGURE OF SPEECH - The Avett Brothers
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Tabbed by: Macheeoo
Email: macheeoo@yahoo.com

Tuning: EADGBE CAPO II

G x4

They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win
C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)                 GIt's (320003@1)hard to tell from where I'm sitting

They say that this is where the fun begins
C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)             GI (320003@1)guess it's time that I was quitting

Em (022000@1)     D (xx0232@1)    
A slight figure of speech
G (320003@1)       CI (x32010@1)cut my chest wide open
Em (022000@1)          DThey (xx0232@1)come and watch us bleed
G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)                 D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)           
Is it art like I was hoping now?

They said "I hope that you will never change"
C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)       GI (320003@1)went and cut my hair

They say "Don't take your business to the big time"
C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)          GI (320003@1)bought us tickets there

Em (022000@1)      DA (xx0232@1)slight figure of speech
G (320003@1)       CI (x32010@1)cut my chest wide open
Em (022000@1)          DThey (xx0232@1)come and watch us bleed
G (320003@1)   C (x32010@1)                   DIs (xx0232@1)it art like I was hoping now?

G-riff 1
e|--3-----------3--------------------------|
B|--3-----------3--------------------------|
G|--0-----------0--------------------------|
D|--0-----------0--------------------------|
A|--2-2-3-2-3-2-2--------------------------|
E|--3-----------3--------------------------|

G-riff 2
e|--3--------------------------------------|
B|--3--------------------------------------|
G|--0--------------------------------------|
D|--0--------------------------------------|
A|--2--0h2h3p2h3p2-------------------------|
E|--3--------------------------------------|

G - (Riff 1)
What did you expect
And what did you forget
That to live you let go of me with each step
It becomes a progression I won't let regret manifest
To aggression
Are you to assess what I've been? What I am? Or become?
Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb
It can be to
Attack those around 'cause you're
G - (Riff 2)
True to color, a town, a time, or a place?
It's not you, it's not mine
And besides it is gone
And you never will find it again
But I don't want to fight
I just ask let me be
I won't give the chance to be my enemy
So go home
Think it through

A jet plane and a big idea
C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)        GI (320003@1)jump over the sea

What ifs hot on my trail
C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)             GBut (320003@1)that can't catch me, no

Em (022000@1)     DA (xx0232@1)slight figure of speech
G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1) 
I cut my chest wide open
Em (022000@1)          CThey (x32010@1)come and watch us bleed
G (320003@1)   C (x32010@1)                   D (xx0232@1) 
Is it art like I was hoping now?

G - (Riff 1)

G - (Riff 2)

G  G  G!!!