Standard Tuning: EADGBe
Capo: 3th Fret
Chords: (written as used without capo)
DOadd9 SOL RE DO
e|-3----|--3---|--2---|--0---|
B|-3----|--3---|--3---|--1---|
G|-0----|--0---|--2---|--0---|
D|-2----|--0---|--0---|--2---|
A|-3----|--2---|--0---|--3---|
E|-x----|--3---|--0(2)|--3---|
Okay, so the most 'tricky' part
(as far as you wanna call it tricky)
is the rhytm of the Cadd9 and the G chords..
The rhytm of these two particular chords
is used troughout the whole song except
for the chorus..
DOadd9 SOL
e|-------3----3--333--
B|-------3----0--000--
G|-------0----0--000--
D|-----2-2----0--000--
A|---3---3----2--222--
E|-------x----3--333-- (repeated)
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[Intro:] (guitar kicks in just before the laughing part)
Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G,
Cadd9, G, D, C (repeat 2x times)
[Verse:]
DOadd9 SOL DOadd9 SOL
You live out where the street ends
DOadd9 SOL RE DO
in a basement apt. with one of your friends
DOadd9 SOL
and the tap drips all night
DOadd9 SOL
water torture in the sink
DOadd9 SOL
The furnace is burning
RE DO DOadd9 SOL
but it's still cold i think ___
Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, D, C
DOadd9 SOL
I can smell the bleach
DOadd9 SOL
that they use in the hall
DOadd9 SOL RE DO
but it can't clean the dirt off of me
DOadd9 SOL
It's seeping under the door
DOadd9 SOL
in across the floor
DOadd9 SOL
it's starting to hurt
Chorus
(D) (C) DOadd9 SOL DOadd9
Everytime I breatthe__|
SOL DOadd9 SOL RE DO
Everytime I try to leave__|
DOadd9 SOL RE DO
Everytime I breathe_____|
[Verse:]
DOadd9 SOL
Now the toaster sticks
DOadd9 SOL
and the empties are piled
DOadd9 SOL RE DO
I haven't been up the stairs in awhile now
DOadd9 SOL
I gotta wash the sheets on my bed
DOadd9 SOL
gotta watch the things that go unsaid
DOadd9 SOL RE DO
God I wish we'd leave it at this____|
[Repeat Chorus] (except the beginning D & C
chords wich are already
played at the end of verse)
[Verse]
RE
And every evening you open the door
DO
You come down
RE DO
There's nothing like watching tv all night on the ground
RE DO
and no one is watching me slide
RE
below street level
C (pump up this chord, get ready for the chorus)
barely alive
[Instrumental] (chords from the chorus)
[Last verse]
DOadd9 SOL DOadd9 SOL
Now we live out where the street ends
DOadd9 SOL DOadd9 SOL
in a basement apt. just like our friends
DOadd9 SOL
We always said that we were different
DOadd0 SOL
but you know now that we weren't
DOadd9 SOL
'cause there's holes in all the bottles
RE DO
and my lungs hurt___|
[Repeat Chorus]
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