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by The Good Life


INTRO RIFF 
        x2     x2      x2 
e|------|------|-1--0--|--------| 
B|-1--0-|-1--0-|-1--1--|/--4--4-| 
G|-0--0-|-0--0-|-2--2--|/--5--5-|  x2 
D|-2--2-|-0--0-|-3--3--|/--6--6-| 
A|-3--3-|-2--2-|-3--3--|/--6--6-| 
E|------|-3--3-|-------|--------| 

Note: Play the first chord for the first three beats, and quickly 
      switch to the second chord for the final beat before again 
      quickly switching to the next chord in the next bar - almost 
      like you're performing a pull off, but actually strumming the 
      chord again. 


                       
well, i'm trying to be patient 
           
yeah, the wheels keep turnin' 'round 
            
but it's a treadmill and i'm just 
             
dragging my feet. i'm so tired 
                
of everything-defeated by routine- 
                                    
by words that don't mean anything to me 
                 
at least not anymore, now that 
                  
i'm done with the mourning of a 
                    
day without ending. a year of 
                       
decadance to escape from penance 
                       
but i suffered and i'm over it 
                          
yeah i'm fine now, but i'm sick of it 
                  
i was happy being miserable 
                                      > 
i used to lay down my head at the bar    > Strum these notes slowly 
                                       > from the bass to high, and 
and raise one lonely finger for a drink  > let the notes ring out. 


[play intro riff again, until:] 

                         
it doesn't have to be so difficult 
                                   
just keep coasting by. so you lost a limb 
                                        
well hell, those wounds will heal with time 
                                       
(but what happens when you loved what you lost?) 
            
you didn't have to cut it off 
     
but you did and i do and it took 
                
everything i had. i wonder if i could 
                          
ever get it back to how it was, 
                       
when i still thought of love as a 
                          
risk i could take-if i was willing 
                         
to make the commitment to rejection 
                   
the mind games, the deception 
                         
the late nights under the covers 
                                       > 
pointing the finger at who ever started   > 
                            > 
whatever we were fighting about        > 

                  
i guess that i'm fine now 
                    
yeah, everything's better 
                              
everything's cooled down-it's all copasetic 
                        
we'll move on, off to a better world 
                                    
to a fresh start where everything's possible... 
                   
but i'm sick of it 
                    
yeah, i'm sick of it 
                  
no-i'm sick of it 
                    
yeah, i'm sick of it 
   
i  
    
so sick 
   
of it 
     
  uh-huh