Standard Tuning: EADGBe
Capo: 3th Fret
Chords: (written as used without capo)
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..
Cadd9 Ge|-------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:]
Cadd9 G Cadd9 GYou live out where the street ends
Cadd9 G D Cin a basement apt. with one of your friends
and the tap drips all night
Cadd9 Gwater torture in the sink
Cadd9 GThe furnace is burning
but it's still cold i think ___
Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, D, C
Cadd9 G
I can smell the bleach
Cadd9 Gthat they use in the hall
but it can't clean the dirt off of me
Cadd9 GIt's seeping under the door
Cadd9 Gin across the floor
it's starting to hurt
(D) (C) Cadd9 G Cadd9
Everytime I breatthe__|
G Cadd9 G D CEverytime I try to leave__|
Everytime I breathe_____|
[Verse:]
Cadd9 GNow the toaster sticks
and the empties are piled
Cadd9 G D CI haven't been up the stairs in awhile now
Cadd9 GI gotta wash the sheets on my bed
gotta watch the things that go unsaid
Cadd9 G D CGod 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]
And every evening you open the door
CYou come down
D CThere's nothing like watching tv all night on the ground
and no one is watching me slide
Dbelow street level
C (pump up this chord, get ready for the chorus)
barely alive
[Instrumental] (chords from the chorus)
[Last verse]
Cadd9 G Cadd9 GNow we live out where the street ends
in a basement apt. just like our friends
Cadd9 GWe always said that we were different
Cadd0 Gbut you know now that we weren't
'cause there's holes in all the bottles
D Cand my lungs hurt___|
[Repeat Chorus]
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