Song: Don't Lose Touch
Written by: Against Me!
Album: Searching For a Former Clarity
Guitars: distorted
Tuning: standard (EADGBE)
Tabbed by: Milo

Intro: 
2 bars of bass then this:

    D (on the offbeat)
 |-x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
 |-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-7---|
 |-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-76-|
 |-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-76-| x2
 |-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-54-|
 |-x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|

Verse 1:

    D
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You're coming off kind of contrived and pretentious


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You're not saying anything we haven't heard before 

     G
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You're caught up in an arguement or are you so

    D
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lost in modern art?  You will lose it

    A
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 |-x-14-x-14-x-14-x-14-x-14-x-14-x-14-x-14-|
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all,                   and you will find again

     G
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 |-x----x----x----x----x----x----x----x----|
                                 Don't Lose

    D
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 |-x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
   Touch                 Don't Lose

 
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 |-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-x-5-|
 |-x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
   Touch      



Verse 2:
All power chords, all downstrokes, 8 beats a bar. punk.

 D
SOS texted from a cell-phone, please tell me I'm not the only one

                  G
that thinks we're taking ourselves too seriously

        D
Just a little too enamoured with inflated self purpose

         A                          G
Talk is cheap, and it doesn't mean much

           D
Don't lose touch, Don't lose touch.



Chorus: 
Play twice
         
           G
I'm losing Touch

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          |---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4-|
          |-5-------5-------5-------5-------5-------5-------5-------5-------|
          |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
I'm losing Touch


Verse 3:

        D
Constant entertainment for our restless minds


Constant stimulation for our epic appetites,

         G
Is there something wrong with these songs?

      D
Maybe there's something wrong with the audience

       A               G               D~   
Manipulation in rock music, ***ing nausea.


Chorus:

           G
I'm losing Touch

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          |---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4---4-5-4-|
          |-5-------5-------5-------5-------5-------5-------5-------5-------|
          |-----------------------------------------------------------------|
I'm losing Touch

           G                   D~ 
I'm losing touch, And it's obvious




Song Order:

Intro
Verse 1
Verse 2
Chorus
Verse 3 
Chorus
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