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I Dont Want To Be Tab

by Gavin Degraw


Standard tuning.....

the chords are barred..

  4-6-6-5-4-4-|
  x-6-8-8-8-8-|
  6-8-8-7-6-6-|
  x-3-5-5-4-3-|

(note...singing comes in on the 5th time of the verse)

Verse:
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I don't need to be anything other
Than a prison guard's son
I don't need to be anything other
Than a specialist's son
I don't have to be anyone other
Than the birth of two souls in one
Part of where I'm going, is knowing where I'm coming from

chorus:

       
 I don't want to be
                                 
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
       
  All I have to do
                                
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
             
  I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
          
Wondering what I've got to do
    
Or who I'm supposed to be
                                       
  I don't want to be anything other than me


Verse:
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I'm surrounded by liars everywhere I turn
I'm surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn
I'm surrounded by identity crisis everywhere I turn
Am I the only one who noticed?
I can't be the only one who's learned

chorus:

       
 I don't want to be
                                 
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
       
  All I have to do
                                 
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
             
  I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
          
Wondering what I've got to do
    
Or who I'm supposed to be
                                       
  I don't want to be anything other than me

Bridge:



Can I have everyone's attention please?
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     If you're not like this and that, you're gonna have to leave

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       I came from the mountain
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       The crust of creation
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      My whole situtaion-made from clay to stone
                  
And now I'm telling everybody

chorus: (played very lightly - louder at the end)

       
 I don't want to be
                                 
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
       
  All I have to do
                                
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
             
  I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
          
Wondering what I've got to do
    
Or who I'm supposed to be
                                       
  I don't want to be anything other than me

                     
I don't want to be
                     
I don't want to be
                     
I don't want to be
                       
anything other than

outro:
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