Verse:

You were walking across hot coals
And your split my heart in two
Then you used both halves as sandles
And the valves as candles

Refrain:

Db, B, A(x2) x4
I’ll never forget you

Verse again
Refrain again

Breakdown, I guess…
I blame myself and no-one else
I should have grown up sooner
I should have let her go
And let her know
I was looking through her.

I’ll never stop believing
And you, never stop dreaming
I know I fell I could not stop
And now I am a laughing stock
I know that I let you down
I let you down

I struggle with it
I’ll always make excuses for it
If you saw me would you wave or look straight through me like a ghost?
Would you even visit my grave
Do you even know if I’m alive?
Who knows?

I’ll never stop believing etc

OUTRO (Whoa, whoa): C, Am, F, G

Winter Hibernation – Dave McPherson

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Tabbed by: Carey

This is my first tab but hopefully it doesn’t suck.

e|-[F#/B]-2—|
B|–2—|
G|–4—| Not sure if that’s the right name for the chord but that’s how you play it.
D|–4—|
A|–2—|
E|–2—|

Also, please note that the chords may not be perfectly lined up with the lyrics.

Verse 1:
An optimist heart is connected to a pessimist’s mind
A glitch in the matrix we secretly long to find
Victims remain victims because they behave like victims
I don’t know how love came through me, I wore a bulletproof vest

Pre-Chorus:
[F#/B]The building dances like jelly just before it falls on top of me
[F#/B]The rubble shrouds my eyes with dust but is there light beyond there I can see?
[F#/B]Her fair hand touches all my poor weathered fingertips

Chorus:
And you are the greatest gift that life could ever give a[F#/B] man, a man like me
A G (hold)
And I’ve been in hibernation for way too long

Verse 2:
Seasonal affective drunken disorder
Let’s hide away in a European lagoon somewhere across the border
I’ll trade a kiss for a promise, a promise never cracked by dishonesty

Pre-Chorus 2: (same as before)

The building dances like jelly just before it falls on top of me
The rubble shrouds my eyes with dust but is there light beyond there I can see?
Her fair hand touches all my poor weathered fingertips

Chorus 2: (same, with some Ds at the end before Bridge)

And you are the greatest gift that life could ever give a man, a man like me
And I’ve been in hibernation for way too long

Bridge:
Come, [F#/B]take my hand, put on my coat, we’ll [F#/B]shelter from rain
Under my fairy oak tree, I'[F#/B]ll keep you warm
I?ll part with my heart for you
I?ll part with my heart for you

Pre-Chorus 2: (same as before)

The building dances like jelly just before it falls on top of me
The rubble shrouds my eyes with dust but is there light beyond there I can see?
Her fair hand touches all my poor weathered fingertips

Chorus 2:

And you are the greatest gift that life could ever give a man, a man like me
And I’ve been in hibernation for way too long

Hold on D

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VERSE 1

Trying to think, before I speak,

but sometimes I think …… this awkward silence needs to be filled up

Boy meets girl, girl likes boy,

boy acts foolish in the morning cause he doesn’t want anything to be going on,

I don’t want to stay here, and I don’t want to play any games,

I just wana hang out, hang out with you all day, its that simple I wear,

I wear my heart on my sleeve, I guna run but I cannot quite hide it.

CHORUS

Some days im an extrovert but baby you turned me into an introvert,

I’m only acting nervous cause I like you,

A mixture of confidence, and insecurity all wash over me,

I’m only acting stupid cause I’m scared of loosing you, before I even had you.

SECOND VERSE the same chords, but at the end listen for when Dave strums all the 7th
harmonics,
then the 5th fret harmonics going into the verse

CHORUS

BRIDGE

Yeah yeah yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh

Yeah yeah yeeeeeeahhhhhh

Yeah yeah yeaaaaaahhhhhhh

yeah yeah yeeeeeeaahhhhhhhh

VERSE 3

Boy meets girl, girl likes boy, but messes it up because he cares too much

CHORUS

BRIDGE
(an extra bar here, end on the C)

I don’t know where I went wrong
I was lost, now I’m found, now you’re gone, gone

’Cause I’m not a saint but I can paint myself into a better picture
One day, you’ll see me in a big, golden frame and it’ll hit you

Last year, I promised myself I’d stop writing songs about girls

But you’re a woman
Last year, I let you down
And I know I should have been around instead of drinking in town
Last year, I was a little boy
Now I feel like a young man, so many plans

I don’t know where I went wrong
I was lost, now I’m found, now you’re gone, gone

Two, three, four

’Cause I’m not a saint but I can paint myself into a better picture
One day, you’ll see me in a big, golden frame and it’ll hit you
So let’s call it even, we’ve got something to believe in and you know this
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/dave_mcpherson/last_year_crd.html )
You know this is true
I’m talking to you so don’t cut me out
I know you’ve got doubts but don’t be too hasty and waste me like I’m wasting myself
I’m sorry for last year

[C/G]I understand you and I read you like a book
And I know why you think that you’ve got to do this
[C/G]You think these are all just empty words made pretty with my guitar
Thinking that there’s no way that I could ever prove this
[C/G]You’re holding on to the past but it won’t last
‘Cause I know that I can make you laugh and smile
And I know that I can make all this pain worthwhile
We’ll take it slow but if you want to move fast, I’m at your pace
And I know this sounds crazy but you know you amaze me
I’ll [C/G]never be lazy unless it’s to be lazy with you

I don’t know where I went wrong
I was lost, now I’m found, now you’re gone, gone

’Cause I’m not a saint but I can paint myself into a better picture
One day, you’ll see me in a big, golden frame and it’ll hit you
So let’s call it even, we’ve got something to believe in and you know this

You know this is true
I’m talking to you so don’t cut me out
I know you’ve got doubts but don’t be too hasty and waste me like I’m wasting myself
I’m sorry for last year
Guess I’ll see you around
You don’t know how much I’m going to prove myself to you
With or without

e|–0–3–3–2–0-(2)—|
B|–0–3–3–3–1–3—-|
G|–0–0–0–2–0–4—-|
D|–2–0–2–0–2–4—-|
A|–2–2–3–0–3–2—-|
E|–0–3–0–0———-|

Intro

e|-3—–3—-2—–2—-0———|
B|—0———-0———-0——-|
G|—–0———-0———-0—–|
D|-3———-0———-2—–2—|
A|———————————|
E|———————————| x2

I could sing to you all night,
I would sing for you all night
About what went wrong and what felt right
I know that I’m to blame and it feels so strange
But where is the good in goodbye?
All I can offer you is my all

’Cause we used to promise, promise to stay
And we used to call each other every day
And we used to listen to the music

e|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
B|-3-1-0-1—3-1-0–|
G|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
D|-2-2-2-2—2-2-2–|
A|-3-3-3-3—3-3-3–|
E|——————|

I know I’m withering away,
I know I’m withering away,
I know my impatience pushes you away
I know everything that I do wrong,
I’ll tell the world in this little song of mine
I wouldn’t know quite how to move on

I know I sound hopeless, I sound like a fool
But when you’re around me, I lose my cool
I know I’m too honest in my music

e|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
B|-3-1-0-1—3-1-0–|
G|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
D|-2-2-2-2—2-2-2–|
A|-3-3-3-3—3-3-3–|
E|——————|

You know that I’m ready, I wasn’t before
And you will forget me but I’m still yours
Do you still listen to my music?

e|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
B|-3-1-0-1—3-1-0–|
G|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
D|-2-2-2-2—2-2-2–|
A|-3-3-3-3—3-3-3–|
E|——————|

I now pronounce you man and music
You might not get the girl, but here’s a guitar, go use it
And I really, really, really, really hate that stupid Cupid
You pulled back your bow and you got me in my heart,
C
My messed up, bloody heart, and I’ll always know where I belong

Dont know the name of the chord, but it is this;
e|-0-|
B|-3-|
G|-0-|
D|-4-|
A|-5-|
E|-0-|

We used to make fire and we used to fight
We used to hold each other every night
And we used to dissect all my music

e|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
B|-3-1-0-1—3-1-0–|
G|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
D|-2-2-2-2—2-2-2–|
A|-3-3-3-3—3-3-3–|
E|——————|

G D g
And don’t shut the door on us, we won’t close the book
We walk away from each other but I don’t know where else to look
Are we still listening to the music?

e|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
B|-3-1-0-1—3-1-0–|
G|-0-0-0-0—0-0-0–|
D|-2-2-2-2—2-2-2–|
A|-3-3-3-3—3-3-3–|
E|——————|

I now pronounce you man and music
I promise that all this hardship will be worth it

Outro

e|-3—–3—-2—–2—-0———|
B|—0———-0———-0——-|
G|—–0———-0———-0—–|
D|-3———-0———-2—–2—|
A|———————————|
E|———————————|
e|-3—–3—-2—–2—-0————-|
B|—0———-0———-0———–|
G|—–0———-0———-0———|
D|-3———-0———-2—–2-2/4-0-|
A|————————————-|
E|————————————-|