Back

The Simplest Thing Tab

by Hey Rosetta



Tuning: Standard

I love this song, and i'm almost 100% sure this is right.
Comments and corrections welcome.

                           
the rain starts off and it wakes you up
                                                         
you can't sleep with that racket on the roof
                          
you get up slow but you can't get going
                                            
it seems this morning the lowness has won
                                          
did you stop to see? mediocrity and your self pity,
                                                          
they were stealing a kiss, look at their lips, still shiny
                   
did you notice that happiness
                                                                 
happens less the more often you stop to find where it's been hiding
                                  
you say, "it's not my fault that i get so low
                                           
there's a weight on my soul that just keeps pulling me down,
                                  
it's pulling me down, i swear it"


                                        
so come on by my house and unleash me your monsters
                                               
with you at the healm we'll go crashing around together
                                                           
and don't mistake some initial hate for something more than cautionary
                                               
cause baby this is love, i'll come down to hell to keep you company


                                              
of all the days we've got we should be screaming out...
                                            
of all the days we've got we should be singing...


    x2


()                                                
what's to be done? one hundred and one
                                       
in a tent for twelve with fingers and elbows
                                       
in innocent ribs, we're minding our business
                                                            
we're just minding our business instead of minding our minds
                                            
in times when the storms will ravage your clothes,
                                              
the sound and the colour could render you blind
                                               
and the throes of a nightmare can sing you to sleep
                                               
then some foreign machine wakes you up at a mean hour
                                   
but heaven is there, under your hair,
                                         
it hides in the noon noise way up in the air
                            
like a bird on the breeze    
                                      
waiting for you and maybe me too


()    x2


()                                 
whats there to do? one hundred and two
                                                
are out on the doorstep and they're pushing the bolts back
                                        
they're wanting in, they're humming our hymn
                                 
everybodys singing like beautiful birds...
                                          
everybodys singing like beautiful birds...
()                                                 
in the trees, listen to it, it's easy man, you can do it too
                         
sing: i know what i want
                   
i  know what i need

cause it's the simplest thing


                                               
of all the nights we've got we should be stepping out...
                                               
of all the nights we've got we should be stepping out...
                                                           
of all the nights we touch we should be swinging around from house to house


                                    
if i could cheer you up it would mean so much,
                                                
clowns in love and laughing it off, laughing it off, laughing it off
                                  
you say, "its not my fault that i get so low
                                                     
but to drown you too, that's a sick way to love, it's a sick way to love,
               
it's a fucking sick way to love"