• Song:

    Not A Lover Yet

  • Artist:

    Polite Sleeper

  • Album:

    Seens

(BEGIN TAB)

I've really been missing some tab for this awesome song, so 
I just went ahead and did it myself. Here you go people, enjoy!
I chose intermediate as difficulty because of the speedy folk 
strumming pattern. Took me a while to get used to. 
Other than that the song is actually really easy to play.

Capo 4 (Standard tuning)

Chords used:
e | --0-----0-----0------0--- | 
b | --1-----3-----1------1--- | 
G | --2-----0-----2------0--- | 
D | --3-----2-----0------0--- | 
A | --3-----3-----3------3--- | 
E | --X---------------------- | 
  F7M C9 C69 C9

Intro: G D9 G D9 G D9 G

G                                                D9
  I spent the last few years really struggling yeah
From fighting urges and just screaming through
        C
All the friendships and the fuckups
        Em          G       C
And the nights that got away from us

G                                            D9
  So I lined up a bottle for each question asked
I closed a chapter on a city that contained most
    C
And landed in some outer borough
        Em            G              C
Where I picked up the keys from your neighbor next door

G                                                         D9
  You may have been bounced around yourself now once or twice
You may have mentioned it when we were passing in the night
    C
But oh! I remind you of a place you come from
            Em       G                C
I said, you probably should take more pride in that

Fill:  C C9 C C7M 

F7M           C 
   And I see how we drifted apart
F7M                           C                F7M
   I'm only comfortable looking at you when I talk
                           C
You've been a good friend,    darling
         G          C
But just not a lover yet


G                                                D9
   So we spent the best years painting pictures of
The adults we knew or the adults that we were running from
    C
But oh, the things I could've said to you then
           Em           G            C       
If I'd the man speaking for the boy I was back then

G
  Those were last words I said when I was 17
D9
I    look at you now and I think,
                 C
Oh my God, I'm about as together and with it
                Em   G       C
and clever as I ever was back then

Fill:  C C9 C C7M 

But I see how we drifted apart
I'm only comfortable looking at you when I talk
You've been a good friend, darling
But just not a lover yet
     F7M    Em    C                  F7M
 But old----  bones hold in place these dates
         Em    C                F7M             
 Old---- bones carry me where I am

End:  F7M C69 C C9  C
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