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Company Car Tab

by Switchfoot


It sounds best using the barr chords for most of the chords except in verse when going 
A to normal E chord (i.e. fight to be someone) and also in the chorus going from A to E 
I'm the one swinging).


           
Mike was right when he said I'd put up
                                  
A fight to be someone, a fight to be me
         
But see now, I'm down
Under the pavement
                               
Of capital hills and lowercase people
                             
As time rolls by my dreams have become
                 
That which is attainable
 
Not what I'm looking for!


                          
I've got the company car
                                   
I'm the one swinging at two below par
                               
Yeah, I've become one with the ones
                 
That I've never believed in
                       
But I've got the company car


         
I'm the king of things I've always despised
                    
I'm the gingerbread man
                
who got eaten alive
          
I'm half-baked! I'm fake!
But see I've got hotels on
                
Park Place and Boardwalk
                
And two hundred bucks
                                
I pass go but, oh! Life's taken its toll
                    
Have I won Monopoly to forfiet my soul?


                          
I've got the company car
                                   
I'm the one swinging at two below par
                               
Yeah, I've become one with the ones
                 
That I've never believed in
                       
But I've got the company car


               
All the king's horses
                  
At the foot of the wall
                 
They're taking pictures of
                  
The man who's lost all of his
 
Masks of pretension
          
He's got two faces left
                       
His is the one that he hides
        
On the left behind that smile...


No guitar for 1st half of this verse:

Hiding tears and fear
That burns like an engine
It drives him away
From the ones that he loves
            
Mike was right:
"Hey Mike! We're one and the same;
                       
we're the faceless combatants
                 
in the lonliest game"
                                
Ah but say, I'll wave as I'm driving by
                     
With that smirk in my eye, yelling
 
"Hey! I'm something man, check me out!"


                          
I've got the company car
                                   
I'm the one swinging at two below par
                               
Yeah, I've become one with the ones
                 
That I've never believed in
                       
But I've got the company car
                       
But I've got the company car
                          
  
But I've got the company car