• Song:

    Martyr Me

  • Artist:

    Get Up Kids

  • Album:

    Live at Emo's

The Get Up Kids
Martyr Me
Guilt Show
2004 Vagrant Records
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com

Key: G

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
G -    320033
D -    xx0232
Em -   022000
C -    x32010
Bm -   x24432
G/B -  x2x003
Am -   x02210
A/C# - x476xx


Intro: C-G/B-D---G--G--


Verse 1:
G
Just to get by
    Em
and try to stay high
       C
it's a good life 
          G
end of discussion
        G
and the hours like sand 
    Em
the holes in my hand
      C                G
i'm a good soul martyr me
        G
and i'm wasting my life
     Em
it's passing me by
       C
it's a good fight
             G
throwing the towel
        G
and the hours i spend 
        Em
aren't enough to pay rent
         C             G
i'm just sinking water deep
       Em               C--
but if all i have defeat


Chorus 1:
  G
tonight if you're 
 Bm
awake at all
  Em
tonight if 
            C--
you're awake
  G
tonight if you're 
 Bm
awake at all
  Em
tonight if 
            C G/B D D G G
you're awake


Verse 2:
    G
The case of my crime
    Em
and lack of my time
       C
it's a road block 
         G
need a catharsis
    G
the patience is spent
  Em
a virtue i sent to 
    C
the basement
         G
far from me
    G
the less that i spend 
      Em
on the mess that i'm
            C
in could be used 
towards something 
   G
of value the 
G
time on my side 
      Em
isn't anything 
          C
i've ever needed 
        G
cant you see but 
   Em               C--
if all i have defeat


Chorus 2:
  G
tonight if you're 
 Bm
awake at all
  Em
tonight if 
            C--
you're awake
  G
tonight if you're 
 Bm
awake at all
  Em
tonight if 
            C G/B D D
you're awake


Interlude: C--Em--


Bridge:
      C                 Em
Every unsuspecting scene
              C
when we're supposed 
               Em
to make believe
the wind not 
C                   Em
tearing at the seams
          C
we hang on we hang 
  A/C#          C Am
on    we hang on


Chorus 3:

Acoustic:
  G
tonight if you're 
 Bm
awake at all
  Em
tonight if 
            C--
you're awake

Distortion:
  G
tonight if you're 
 Bm
awake at all
  Em
tonight if 
            C--
you're awake
  G
tonight if you're 
 Bm
awake at all
  Em
tonight if 
            C G/B D D G(Hold) G(hold)
you're awake
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