------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SONG NAME - Band Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: kleekl Email: Eelkemulder@gmail.com Chords: open chords Band website: http://www.ramshackleglory.com/ Intro: Am E Am G E Am E Am G E Am E well, i?m afraid that the circles i?ve been drinking myself Am G E aren?t big enough for the vowels that i try to fit inside of them. Am when i was young, i drank too much, E Am and i?d be lying if i said i didn?t feel so goddamn young tonight; G E maybe too young to ask what?s on my mind. F Am like: if freedom means doing what you want (well), E Am don?t you gotta want something? F Am E and won?t you tell me that we want something more than just more beer? and my friends, if that ain?t true, won?t you lie to me tonight? Am E well, i?ve been listening to minor threat records all day, and shit if i do not know every word. Am G E i sing along as i tie off. Am E and ian screams he?s ?out of step? as i throw the cotton into the spoon, draw up into the syringe. Am G E i?ll know just what he means until i hit a vein. F Am E Am but after that i won?t have to bother with knowing who i am, for a while at least. F Am in a moment the whole world is gonna melt around me, E and i?ll swear i don?t miss it as a i lie to you tonight. C E Am F because i?m afraid to look the world in the eye. C E Am F if nothing?s gonna change, well, then i?d rather die. C E and i?m too unemployed to organize a union; Am F i?m too intoxicated to tear down a building. C E i?m too hopeless to look for a solution; Am i?m afraid that if i found one, F C i?d be out of excuses for the way i waste away E Am F in the gutters that i chose like fashion accessories to go with my dirty clothes. C E Am i haven?t bathed in months, but you know it?s not because i?ve been fighting bourgeois morals: F i?m just lazy and i?m young. Am E i?ve seen the best minds of my generation dying drunk or high from the rooftops to the parking lots, Am G E stomped to death in west philadelphian squats. Am E they?ve got me waiting on a day when we can say ?fuck the police!? with a little bit of integrity, Am G E when it will mean: ?i?ve got your back if you?ve got mine!? F Am E Am give me a scene where i believe in more than bad hair cuts, guilt, and misery. F Am i don?t know where i fit between the vegans and the nihilists. E that might be the first thing i?ve said that wasn?t a lie tonight. C E Am F because there?s gotta be something more than lying in the front yard, naked, screaming at the constellations. C E Am F i want something more than an apology to say when i look the world in the eye. C E i?ll tell you, man, my friend william came to me with a message of hope. Am F it went: ?fuck you and everything that you think you know. C E Am F if you don?t step outside the things that you believe they?re gonna kill you.? C E Am he said: ?no one?s gonna stop you from dying young, and miserable, and right, F but if you want something better, you gotta put that shit aside.? C E Am F i thought about how for thousands of years there have been people who told us that things can?t go on like this: C E from jesus chris to the diggers, Am from malthus to zerzan, F from karl marx to huey newton, C E Am F but the shit goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on x 3? (first time short, second time strum, end on C) G F now, i?m not saying that we can?t change the world, C E Am F because everybody does at least a little bit of that. C E Am F but i won?t shit myself: the way i?m living is a temper tantrum C E Am F and i need something else, need something else, need something else to stay alive. C E Am F jam (ohohoh.) F Am E Am and on the night that i play my last show, i?ll be singing so loud that my heart explodes. F Am E and i?ll be singing, and i?ll be singing: we are free! F Am E Am oh, but won?t you promise me that we won?t ever forget what the means? F Am E i know it?s hard to give a shit sometimes, but promise me we?ll always try. F Am E because i don?t wanna hate you, and i don?t wanna hate me, F Am E and i don?t wanna have to hate everything anymore. ************************************ | / slide up | \ slide down | h hammer-on | p pull-off | ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note | b Bend | pb Pre-bend | br Bend release | pbr Pre-bend release | brb Bend release bend ************************************
