• Song:

    My Mistakes

  • Artist:

    Eleanor Friedberger

My absolute favorite song on the album , it's quite simply played yet incredibly
fun to play along. It's just a C5 and F5 the entire time (sounds best to play bar chords)

        C5             F5
e | ---8--------1---- | 
B | ---8--------1---- | 
G | ---(b9)-------2---- | 
D | --10--------3---- | 
A | --10--------3---- | 
E | ---8--------1---- | 


 C5
You know i do my best thinking when I'm flying down the bridge,
 F5
Humming to myself and kicking up my kicks.
 C5
Jiggling all around half-afraid for my life, I hope I don't crash like that night last summer,
 F5
Back when the bridge was just a wooden path, Bouncing around like he said it was 1956
 C5


Chorus:
                     F5
I thought I'd learn from my mistakes, I thought he'd learn from my mistakes,
                          C5
I thought you'd give me the right advice, I thought he let me in for one last time.
 F5         C5


 F5
The planks rattle around like an old-timey movie,
In tube-top and shorts that Vice called "pull-me-down"
 C5
she's got kind of a native vibe before that was so cool
                                                                               F5
She's got kind of a native vibe before I even knew who was who
 C5
And he's ignoring me like it's 2001
 F5
Why keep time traveling if it doesn't get better on the second time around
 C5
Why keep time traveling if it doesn't get better on the second time around

Chorus:
                     F5
I thought I'd learn from my mistakes, I thought he'd learn from my mistakes,
                          C5
I thought you'd give me the right advice, I thought he let me in for one last time.
 F5         C5

 F5
I wore the same outfit on the day the Hasid
Followed me in his car along Park, not Avenue,
 C5
But the one in Brooklyn, on an early Sunday morning,
I'm carrying an umbrella and talking on the phone
 F5
My mom said run, and I ran,
I crashed down Baker, cut my head and my knees
 C5
The ambulance was called by a guy his friend called Guru
 F5
They were visiting from California, and I swear they,
I swear they, I swear they,
                                    C5
I swear they saved my life

Chorus: (x2)
                     F5
I thought i'd learn from my mistakes, I thought he'd learn from my mistakes,
                          C5
I thought you'd give me the right advice, I thought he let me in for one last time.

Outro:  F5     C5  (repeat until fade)
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