Intro I

You sure you want to spend your life in jail?
How you gonna spend your life in jail?

[D/F#]I was on my way

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Verse I
D, Bm, G, A x2

First break the skin, next open the wound.
Now force your fingers in, and here's what you do:
Climb inside the vein and have some heart

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Intro II

You said “I want to spend my life in jail”
Why do you want to spend your life in jail?

[D/F#]”I’ve lost my way”

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Verse II (same as Verse I)

“Pour concrete on me delicately, baby
so I can live my sedimental life sedentarily,” all life
“I could just sit here for hours and watch TV,” worthlessly

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Intro III (same as previous)
So that’s why you choose to spend your life in jail?
Who would choose to spend their life in jail?

You’ve lost your way

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Interlude I-(upbeat)
This part is hard to do as one person If you want to just play with the song strum back
forth between:

or

Guitar I

D----------------------------------------2-----------------------5-4-2---|
A---5-5-5-2--5-5-5-5-2--5-5-5-2--5-5-5-5-------------------------------5-|x?
E--------------------------------------------5-5--12/5-5-5-5-5-5---------|

Guitar II comes in about halfway through

D---------------------------------------------|
A----------------------------4-5-7-----4-5-7--|
E-2-3-4-5-5-2-3-4-5--12/5---5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-|
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Verse III(same as before)

“blow my money on my favorite company
they can blow holes in my ozone
so pour that propane on my clothes
I like it when my skin glows
besides there’s nothing to live for”
unless you live a little more like you’re going to die

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Interlude II/Bridge (upbeat)

D, A x 1

so what the fuck are you going to do?
they robbed your life from you
A (pause)
tell them you want to get it back
if you do, I’ve got your back
yes it’s something worth defending
so throw caution to the wind
A(pause)
and other platitudes
that were written just for you
take a shit in their swimming pool
let them chase you if you do
finally something is happening to you
put an axe through the TV
blow up your radio,
though you can’t see them now
you’ll hear birds singing in your soul
sneak your way past the gates in a hard heart shape
if you’re gonna be a shark you better learn to stay awake

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Outro

Walk Up: D/F#, G, G#,A, A#, Bm

Ba, Ba, Ba,Ba,Ba,Ba,Ba,Ba,Ba,Ba,Ba…..X3

Why you wanna spend your life in jail?

End on D

….I think that’s about it! This is my favorite song off Arm’s Way. Has a great build up! Enjoy!

Em – x79987
Bm – 799777
Bm [-]- x24432
Em – 022000
C – x32010
B -[-] x24442
Dm – x57765
A/C# – x4765x
E5 – 022xxx
B/D# – x6987x
[c[-]h]G6/E[/ch] – 05543x
C – x35553
Dm – xx0231
G – 320033
Am – x02210
Asus4 – x02230
EmaddC – 022010
Em7 – 022030
Csus4/F[/ch] – x8101088
E5 – x799xx
Fo – xx3x6x
Go – xx5x8x
Ao – xx7x10x
Csus4/G[/ch] – 33356x
Eno5 – x7x99x
Esus4no5 – x7x910x
E [-]- 022100
F#sus4/C#[/ch] – x44422
F#sus4/C#[/ch] – xxx677
F#/C#[/ch] – xxx676
D – xx0232
C5 – x355xx
A5 – 577xxx
G5 – 355xxx
A – x02220

Em Bm Am |

e|-------------------------------14--14h17p14----14---1412--12--12-14-12-------|
B|-12--12h15p12----12---12-15/17--------------17--------------------------15-12-|
G|--------------14--------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

[Em(1)]

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14----------------------------|
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[Riff A]

e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-------------|
A|-------------|
E|-0-0-0-2-3-0-|

Barefoot, passing [A/C#]through
I knelt down to get a better view
Of what grew there; well what [A/C#]grew there?
Em B/D#
Scared, heard a terrible sound
Am B Em
Lay down, played dead, that’s when I heard it clearer

[Riff A] C F# B
In the rushes a voice said

You can walk around forever
G G6/E[/ch] Am
And never notice me
A little closer in the rushes
G C
Hiding down among the reeds

C Dm G Em
A seed, A seed
C Am G C
A seed, A seed
Ohhhhh

Em B/D#
I swallowed, it digested quick
Em Bm Em
But not enough to not make me sick, I lost it

[Riff A] C F# B
It tasted like a light going off inside my mind

Dm A/C# Am Bm Em

[For this section, play the chords (listen for timing) followed by this riff:]
[Riff B]

e|-0-0-0-1-------|
B|---------0-3-1-|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|---------------|
E|---------------|

Am C Em [Riff B]
Am C Em [Riff B]
Am C Em [Riff B]
Am C Em [Riff B] [Riff B] [Riff B] Am
La la la la la, la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la

Dm Asus4 EmaddC Am
Then suddenly I was outside of harm’s way, forgetting the desire to remember
Dm Am Em7 Am
Trans tourist vanished, finished damaged playback, I felt myself unraveling at a racetrack
Dm Em7
I felt myself unraveling at a racetrack

Am Dm Csus4/F[/ch] E5
Fo Go Ao

C Csus4/G[/ch] C Csus4/G[/ch] C Csus4/G[/ch]
Then I coughed up blood Scraped it off my tongue Sucked it off my thumb

Am F Em Am Dm Bm
And it was rotten, ohhhh Oooooh

[Riff C]
Eno5 Esus4no5 Eno5 Esus4no5 Eno5

e|---------------------------------------|
B|-9-9-9-10-10-9-9----9-9-9-10-10-9-9----|
G|-9-9-9-9--9--9-9----9-9-9-9--9--9-9----|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|-7-7-7-7--7--7-7----7-7-7-7--7--7-7----|
E|---------------------------------------|

Em B/D#
Care, to care; I knelt down but you weren’t there
Am Bm Em
Anymore; I was pushed into a bush

[Riff A] C F# B
In the rushes on the screen, it was all acting

Dm A/C# Am Bm Em

[Riff A] C F# B

[Riff A var 1]

e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-1-1-1-2-4-1-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|

[Riff A var 2]

e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-0-0-0-2-4-0-|
D|-------------|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|

B F# A E G F# F#sus4/C#[/ch]

F#sus4/C#[/ch] F#/C#[/ch]

[Riff D]

e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------3-----------------|
G|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-------------2-2-|
D|-0-0-0-0-0-2-2---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
A|-----------------0-0-0-0-0-2-----|
E|---------------------------------|

[Riff D] x2

[Riff D]
Cellos cellos cellos cellos, cellos cellos cellos cellos, cellos cellos cellos
cellos, cellos cellos cellos cellos
I can’t believe it, believe that I had seen it
Remember who was in my arms, remember when I had arms

C G D Am
It’s like a dream the way that it unfolded
C G D C5 A5
Like I’m here in the rushes without knowing

[Riff D]
I kissed it but I must admit, I missed it now I do f-f-forget
C G D
Like I’d been in the rushes without knowing

You are forgotten
You’ve been forgotten
You’ve been forgotten
You are forgotten
You are forgotten
You are forgotten
You are forgotten
You are forgotten
You are forgotten
G A
You are all forgo-

Oooooh ooooooh
Oooooh ooooooh
Oooooh You are forgotten

C G A A D
You are all forgotten

[Am-E-Am-E]
Now turn around, it’s burning down
The city we live in
Should we mobilize?
Take them by surprise?
Let them have their way with us?

Wounds be by old enemies
Broke my heart to see
Foundations ripped apart
And investments fade away
I guess we got off to a bad start

No oxygen
What is the outcome?
Hungry humans
We’ve got to enslave them

We’ll burn those bridges
When we come to them
I’m not just their leader
I’m also one of them

The food supply has been depleted
The river’s run dry just when it was needed
The rats come out to take it over
Singing, squeaking, “We built this city”

It’s hard to breathe
But we couldn’t leave
Nowhere left to go
Almost everybody died
Drank the tears from those who cried
We shriveled from the sodium

And a map was found with an X on it
So we followed it there
And what did we find
An underground design
As we entered in to our surprise

Oxygen
Rivers and playgrounds
The ancients just stayed down
They never stopped moving

We stumbled towards them
But they locked all the barn doors
So we had to dig deeper
We had to dig deeper

And the deep was dark
I wanted to sleep forever
Wake up later, maybe never
We had to build a civilization
Let the planet focus on the planet’s rotation

We tried, we tried
We really tried
But no one could do it
Not really alive
Never learned how to survive
We were humans being useless

No oxygen
What is the outcome?
Hungry humans
We’ve got to enslave them

We’ll burn those bridges
When we come to them
I’m not just their leader
I’m also one of them

We fade into oblivion
No traces of civilized living eating the earth
We’re fading to oblivion
No traces of civilized living eaten by earth

NOTE: E flat tuning – tune 1/2 step down.

At the bottom of this tab I’ve done
everything in standard tuning.

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Main riff

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Gb|-11——————————————-|
Db|—-11-9-7-9-11——-7-9-11-9-7-9-7—7-9h11-|
Ab|—————-9-7-9—————-9——–|
Eb|———————————————-|
eb|———————————————-|
Bb|———————————————-|
Gb|-11——————————————-|
Db|—-11-9-7-9-11-9-7—7-9-11-9-7-9-7—7-9h11-|
Ab|——————–9—————-9——–|
Eb|———————————————-|

[—–]VERSE – “Right from the start…”
[—–]
Palm mute all.

eb|————————————–|
Bb|————————————–|
Gb|———-44444444-99999999-22222222–|
Db|-44444444-44444444-99999999-22222222–|
Ab|-44444444-22222222-77777777-00000000–|
Eb|-22222222—————————–|
eb|————————————–|
Bb|————————————–|
Gb|———-44444444-22222222-66666666–|
Db|-44444444-44444444-22222222-66666666–|
Ab|-44444444-22222222-00000000-44444444–|
Eb|-22222222—————————–|
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MAIN RIFF

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BRIDGE

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eb|-2222222222222222-|
Bb|-3333333333333333-|
Gb|-4444444444444444-|
Db|-4444444444444444-|
Ab|-2222222222222222-|

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