Burdens Of Being Upright (2)

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  • Verse 1:
    A G# G F# G G#
    Mother Mother, how's the family? I'm just calling to say hello
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    How's the weather, how's my father? Am I lonely? Heavens no.
    Mother mother, are you listening, just a phone call to ease your mind,
  • Life is perfect, never better, distance making, the heart grow by,
     
    Chorus: (distorted)
  • E D C D
    Well you sent me off to see the world
     
  • But you're scared that I might get hurt
    Would I try a little tobacco?
    Would I keep on hikin up my skirt?
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    Bridge:
    A (stop) A (stop) A (stop)
  • I'm hungry, I'm dirty, I'm losing my mind,
    F# (add lots of sliding noise!)
    (scream)Everything's fine
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    I'm freezing, I'm starving, I'm bleeding to death,
    Everything's fine!
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    Verse 2: (same chords all the way through)
    Yeah I'm working, making money, I'm just starting to build a name
  • I can feel it, down the corner, I can make it any day...
    Mother mother, can you hear me? Sure I'm sober, sure I'm sane
    Life is perfect, never better, still your daughter, still the same.
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    Chorus 2: (same chords as chorus 1)
    Should I tell you what you want to hear?
  • Will it help you to sleep well at night,
    Are you sure that I'm your perfect dear
    Now just cuddle up and sleep tight...
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    Bridge: play 1st bridge
     
  • End on:
    A (stop) A (stop) A (stop)
    I miss you I love you
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    End....
     
  • Chords:
    A 577655 or 002220
    G# 466544
  • G 355433
    F# 244322
     
  • E 022100
    D x00232 or 557775
    C 032010 or 335553
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    Navy Been
    Intro:
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    Electric
    e:--------------------------|-----|
  • B:--------------------------|-----|
    G:--------------------------|play-|
    D:--------------------------|-----|
  • A:--------------------------|-x4--|
    E:--3--3--6--3--6--3--1--2--|-----|
     
  • then:
    Bass
    G:--------------------------|play-|
  • D:--------------------------|-x4--|
    A:--------------------------|with-|
    E:---3--3--6--3--6--3--1--2-|elec-|
  •  
    Then: With electric:
     
  • G Bb G F x4
     
    Verse 1:
  •  
    Bass: G Bb G F
    Navy been is bigger than it seems
  • Put it on don't ask what it means
    (electric):
    G# A# G Bb G F
  • Vibrate around
     
    Verse 2: (same progression as verse 1 unless indicated)
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    Cellophane is thicker than it seems
    Put it on don't ask what it means
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    G# A# G Bb G F
    Vibrate around
  • G# A# F# G# G Bb G F
    Vibrate oohohoho Vibrate
    G Bb G F
  • Around
     
    Verse 3: (exactly the same progression as verse 1)
  • Shaving cream is thicker than it seems
    Shave'em off don't ask what it means
    Vibrate around
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    Verse 4: (similar to verse 2)
    An angel wing is caught up in the tree
  • If you know what's best get the hell away from me
    G# A# F# G#
    Vibrate ohooho Vibrate G Bb G F
  • Vibrate ohohoho Vibrate around
    |------------| play x3
     
  • Bridge: (slow, fingerpick the chords)
    B
    Oh you little Navy Been, are you caught up in the tree?
  • G G F# G G F# G
    Navy Been Navy Been
    (play above once more...)
  •  
    G G F# G G F# G
    Navy Been, Navy Been(scream)
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    Solo is over: the chords G Bb G F
     
  • Verse 5: repeat verse 2, with:
    G Bb G F
    Vibrate around x4
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    Repeat intro...end on G.
     
  • End.
     
    Chords:
  • G 355433
    Bb 688766
    F 133211
  • G# 466544
    A# 688766
    B 224442
  • F# 244322
     
    Tell it to the sky
  •  
    Intro/Verse: (clean guitar)
    G B E
  • e:--------------------------|--|---0--------|
    B:--------------------------|--|---0--------|
    G:--------0-----------4-----|--|---1--------|
  • D:-----0-----------4-----4--|x3|---2--------|
    A:-----------0--2-----------|--|---2--------|
    E:--3-----------------------|--|---0--------|
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    Verse 1:
    G B
  • It makes you reek
    G B
    It makes you strong
  • G B E (single strum)
    Benine in your blood to burn
     
  • It took your nights
    You took my star
    One I wished on last year
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    Chorus: (heavy distortion man...)
     
  • A G# C
    AaaaaaaaHaaaaaAhhaaHAaaa x4 G B
    Sooooohohoohooon
  • G
    You'll know
    F G# F#
  • What you done
    F G# F# x3
    F G# F#
  • You'll hurt no one x3
    F G# F#
     
  • Play verse 1 again (soft - stop slighlty after "my hair")
    +chorus x2
     
  • Finish:
    slow down on "rather than tomorrow..." End.
     
  • Chords:
    F 133211
    G# 466544
  • F# 244322
    D 557775
    A 577655
  • C 335553
    E 022100
    G 320033
  • B 224442
     
    One Hit Wonder
  •  
    Intro: G E x4
     
  • Verse 1:
     
    G E
  • They call you the one-hit wonder
    G E F
    I could just hit you right, yeah right between
  • Dm G
    Yeah right between the eyes
     
  • Verse 2:
     
    G E
  • If ever a girly wonder
    G E
    Could ever be more, than just,
  • F Dm
    one thing, yeah more than one thing at
    G E G E
  • at ti-ihihime a ti-ihihime
    G A Dm E
    More than one at a time
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    Verse 3: same progression as verse 1
     
  • I'll give you my 4-leaf clover
    For God only knows, that it's
    the only, one, the only, one I'd mind
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    Verse 4: same progression as verse 2
     
  • And you'll hear it over and over
    Until it is built, right in,
    Yeah right, into, your filthy,
  • little mi-ihihind, your mi-hihihind
    A
    yeah right into your...
  •  
    Chorus:
     
  • F E
    I I own the world
    F A
  • I bought the whole damn world
    F E
    From the maaaan who sold the world
  • F A
    A million-doller caddie worth
     
  • Verse 5: same prog as verse 1
     
    So could you just bend right over
  • To see how it feels, to be,
    to see, just how, it feels, to be alive
     
  • Verse 6: same prog as verse 2
     
    And you'll get it over and over
  • Coz god only know, that is
    The only one, the only one
    I'd mi-hihihind, I'd mi-hihihind
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    the only one oh
    Chorus
  •  
    Chords:
     
  • G 320033
    E 022100
    F 133211
  • Dm x00231
    D5 x0023x
    A 002220
  •  
    Sharks Can't Sleep
     
  • Intro/Verse: (clean guitar)
    D F# G E
    e:----------------------------------0--0--0----|
  • B:----------3-----------------------0--0--0----|
    G:------2-------------3---------4---1--1--1----|
    D:---0-------------4---------5------2--2--2----|
  • A:----------------------------------2--2--2----|
    E:--------------2---------3---------0--0--0----|
     
  • D F# G E (rest)
     
    Verse 1:
  • D F# G E
    Saw a shark today
    D F# G E
  • Ate a man and then, just swam away
    D F# G E
    But it wasn't OK
  • D F# G E (rest)
    No it wasn't OK
     
  • Verse 2:
    Saw a snake today,
    Ate and burned your steak and squirmed away
  • But it wasn't OK
    D F# G Bb (distortion kicks in for G and Bb)
    No it wasn't OK
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    Chorus: (distortion)
    D F# G E
  • No -ho, No -ho, No -ho, No-ho x2
    D F# G E
    But it wan't OK
  • D F# G E (rest)
    No it wasn't OK
     
  • Verse 3: (same chord progression as verse 2)
    Met a star today
    Looked like flesh and bone and tooth decay
  • But it wasn't OK
    No it wan't OK
     
  • Chorus 2:
    Same as chorus 1 with:
    D F# G E
  • No it wasn't OK x2
     
    Break: (play x2)
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    A A? A A? G F# G F#?
    e:----------------------------------|
  • B:----------------------------------|
    G:------6--6--6--6----4--4--4--4----|
    D:------7--7--7--7----5--5--5--5----|
  • A:------7--6--7--6----5--4--5--4----|
    E:------5--5--5--5----3--3--3--3----|
    Wowowowo Wowowowo
  • A A? A A? G F# G F# A A? A A? G F# G F#
    Nohowoah, Nohowoah, no, not I
     
  • A A? A A? G F# G F# F
    Nohowoah, Nohowoah, not me
     
  • Verse 4: (play as verse 2)
    Ate a man today
    Ate a man and then just walked away
  • But iwasn't OK
    No it wasn't OK
     
  • End on CHORUS
     
    Chords:
  •  
    D x00232 or 557775
    F# 244322
  • G 355433 or 320033
    E 022100
    Bb 688766 or 113331
  •  
    Bullday
     
  • Intro: (Fast, heavy distortion)
    G D B C x2
     
  • Verse 1: (G D B C for each line)
     
    G D B C
  • You've got a ro-ocket
    Inside your bullet head
    I've seen you walking
  • C D
    Baaaahaaby
     
  • G D B C
    Your natural greyness
    Has never done you wrong
  • You showed that sweet old
    C D
    Laaahaaaady
  •  
    Chorus:
     
  • G B C A
    Who's got the bull down low owoahwoah
    G B C A
  • Who's got the bull down low
    G B C Eb
    Who's got the bull down be-low
  •  
    G D G (quick succession)
     
  • Verse 2: (like verse 1)
     
    You talk of genius
  • I feel an undertow
    Which head of yours is
    Dragging down?
  •  
    One made of lettuce
    Is smarter than you both
  • You fooled that man whole
    Anyhow
     
  • Chorus x2
     
    Break:
  •  
    E F# G A
    He'll bend you over, little red rover
  • Bend you right over, some Casanova
    Go to your mama, little Chiwouaoua
    Get back to your mama, little Chihuahua
  •  
    Chorus x2
    Every Breath
  •  
    Verse 1:
    F D
  • See you running and it's all over now
    F D
    The devil's coming and he's showing us how
  • Eb G Eb G
    He's going down on the street, like, it's such a cool sight
     
  • F D
    The lizard king is here and where are you now?
    F D
  • Monkey Brain is here and he's showing us how
    Eb G
    He's going down on a cool bike,
  • Eb G F E
    And I am loosing sight
     
  • Chorus 1:
     
    D G D G D
  • And every day is like the one before
    G D G D
    Yeah it's like the one before
  • G D G D G F D
    You get it right you'll breath no mooooore
     
  • Verse 2: (same prog as in verse 1)
     
    I saw my shadow on the blackest of nights
  • Sometimes I push me right out of the lights
    So I'm down on the (get right?), and I am loosing
     
  • You're here to tempt me, and it's all looking new
    To keep me from running just to try something new
    I'm going down on the floor right, I am right behind
  •  
    Chorus 2:
    Play chorus 1 with:
  • D G F
    no more x3
     
  • Instrumental: (violins)
     
    F D x2
  • Eb G Eb G
    F G#
     
  • Chorsu 3:
     
    Play chorus 1 then chorus x2
  • D
    end on "no more"
     
  • 30 Seconds
    Intro:
    G
  • e:---3--3---------------|----|-------|
    B:---3--3---------------|----|-------|
    G:---4--4---------------|-x3-|-------|
  • D:---5--5---------------|----|---5---|
    A:---5--5---4--4--4h5p4-|----|---5---|
    E:---3--3---------------|----|---3---|
  •  
    Verse 1:
     
  • A7 C7 A7 C7
    For every stone, there's a rock waiting someone's
    A7 C7 A7 C7
  • Head, hear it come and you'll wish you had two heads
    G7 Bb7
    30 seconds x2
  •  
    A7 C7 A7
    Tell half your soul and you'll realise that you are
  •  
    Chorus:
    G A7 riff
  • e:---------------------------------|
    B:---------------------------------|
    G:-----4---------------------------| x3
  • D:-----5----------5---5------------|
    A:-----5----------4---4----4h5p4---|
    E:-----3----------5---5------------|
  • Noohoa one
     
    G A7 (riff)
  • Noohoa one x3
    G
    No one
  •  
    Verse 2:
     
  • For every star, there's another one that's fading
    Fading away, hating every bit of light
     
  • 30 seconds x2
     
    One day the sun and the rest you're sending ants to
  •  
    Chorus 2:
     
  • G A7
    No-hoa one x3
    G (pause) A7 (riff)
  • No one
    G A7
    Out of my way
  • A7 G#7
    Four you know you're
    G A7
  • Out of my way x3
     
    Verse 3:
  •  
    For everyone, there's another one that's stronger
    So, out you go, like the trash that you drug in
  •  
    30 seconds x2
     
  • Paving the way, for the ones that made you feel like
     
    Chorus 3:
  •  
    G A7 (riff)
    No-hoa one x3
  • G (pause) A7 (riff)
    No one
    G A7 (riff)
  • Out of my way
    A7 G#7
    Four you know you're
  • G7 F#7
    Out of my way x3
     
  • Chords: These are a bit weird
     
    A7 545xxx or 002020
  • C7 032310
    G7 32300x or 353433
    G 320033 or 355433
  • Bb7 656xxx or 113131
    G#7 434xxx or 464544
    F#7 212xxx or 242322
  •  
    The Real
     
  • Intro:
    A C A C
    e:------------------------|--------------|
  • B:------------------------|--------------|
    G:------------------------|--play-lots---|
    D:------------------------|--------------|
  • A:----4---///-7---4-//--7-|--------------|
    E:----5--////-8---5-//--8-|--------------|
    Aaaaa Aaa a - Haaaa (etc...)
  •  
    Verse 1:
    A C F E G
  • I know the sons are wrong, to wake their dad
    A C F E
    You got, if anything, a bigger head
  • D E A
    Most likely to perform, was who I knew
    D E C
  • But now it's you that I have to know
     
    Verse 2: (same progression as verse 1)
  •  
    Tell me who you know, has got away
    Sweet little who you know, lives in L.A.
  • Most likely to conceive was who I knew
    But now it's you that I have to know
     
  • Chorus:
     
    A F C
  • Only the real world
    A F C
    It's so unreal
  • A C F E (single strum)
    Only the real is rea-he-eal
     
  • Verse 3:
    Pocket the business card, be on your way
    Pocket the smiling face, and save the day
  • Most likely to perform, was who I knew
    But noew it's you that I have to know
     
  • Chorus x2
    
    Play intro, and fade out....
  •  
    Chords:
    A 002220
  • C 032010
    F 133211
    E 022100
  • G 320033
    D x00232
  • PLAY TOO ..
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