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Guitar6String  Tabwww.ultimate-guitar.com2011/03/28 17:23:11

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F#': x 9 11 11 11 x
E  : 022100
B  : 799877
B' : x 14 16 16 16 x
A  : 577655

Guitar 2 plays the tab. It is a clean guitar, with some effects (I'm not sure,
I think maybe a chorus or a flanger?)

OK, here we go.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
VERSE 1
(no chords)
I want you to know that I'm happy for you.
I wish nothing but the best for you both.

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Another  version of me;     Is   she  perverted  like me? Would  she go

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down on you in          a theatre?                 Does she speak

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e-  lo- quently?   And  would she have your baby?        I'm sure she'd

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make a  really  excel-  lent    mother.                      Cause the


PRE-CHORUS
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F#'
love     that you gave    that we made       wasn't   a------ble to

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-----17-------16--------14------------|-16-----------------------------|
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                                   x x  B'
make it enough for you to    be      o--pen wide.

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-------------19------|--------------17--------16---------------|
---19---17-----------|-14------------------------------17------|
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                 x x   F#'

 No.             And   every--time you speak her name does she
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                                               x x
 know how you told me you'd hold me       un--til

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---------16---------------------|--------------16------------------------|
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B'
 you died?   Til you died, but    you're still alive.         And I'm here


CHORUS
             F#        E               A                      B
(And I'm here)   to  remind you of the mess you left when you went away.
         F#        E            A                     B
It's not fair to deny me of the cross I bear that you gave to me.
B             n.c.
You, you, you oughta know.


VERSE 2 (guitar 1 plays the F#' and B' chords softly)

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F#'
You               seem          very     well.

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B'
Things           look          peaceful.

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---------14--------------------|-----------------------------16--|
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F#'
I'm               not           quite as well.           I thought

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-16----------17~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
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---------16--------------------|---------------------------------|
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