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Breathe 2 Am Tab

by Anna Nalick


Anna Nalick's album "Wreck of the Day" is absolutey amazing!  This tab sounds right
when I play it, "Breathe" is a great song and a lot of fun to sing and play. 

The day after I submitted this tab, I was able to see a live performance of this song
(amazing) and I think I got a better grasp on how it is supposed to be played.

With Aadd9, her guitar player Luis tends to put his pinky on the G string on and off
(I previously posted that he did the same thing on the high E string, but I was wrong).
Listen to the song and you should get what I am talking about (ie. does it
during "Hypocrites you're all here for the very same REASON")
Similarly, it can also be done while playing E in places like "hands" during the
chorus. (B7sus4)  Just play with the pinky on the G string again.

Standard Tuning

 - xx7650
G - 355433 or 320033(during chorus)
 - xx0232
 - x02220
 - x24432


Verse
                                  
2am and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake
                                       
Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
                                         
I don't love him, Winter just wasn't my season
                                             
Yeah, we walk through the door so accusing their eyes
                                       
Like they have any right at all to criticize
                                             
Hypocrites you're all here for the very same reason


Chorus

'Cause you can't jump the track
            
We're like cars on a cable and
                        
Life's like an hourglass glued to the table
                    
No one can find the rewind button, girl
                           
So cradle your head in your hands
                                   
And breathe, just breathe, whoa breathe, just breathe


Verse
                           
May he turned 21 on the base of Fort Bliss
                                           
Just today he sat down to the flask in his fist
                                        
Ain't been sober since maybe October of last year
                                          
Here in town you can tell h 's been down for a while
                                          
But my god it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
                                     
Wanna hold him maybe I'll just sing about it


Chorus 

Cause you can't jump the track
           
We're like cars on a cable and
                        
Life's like an hourglass glued to the table
                    
No one can find the rewind button, boys
                           
So cradle your head in your hands
                                    
And breathe, just breathe, whoa breathe, just breathe


Bridge
                            
There's a light at each end of this tunnel you shout
                                    
Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
                                      
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
                          
If you'll only try turnin' around

Verse
                        
2am and I'm still awake writing a song
                                      
If I get it all down on paper it's no longer
                                     
Inside of me, threatnin' the life it belongs to
                                     
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
                                             
Cause these words are my diary screamin' out loud
                                             
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

Chorus

Cause you can't jump the track
              
We're like cars on a cable and
                         
Life's like an hourglass glued to the table
                     
No one can find the rewind button, now
                  
Sing it if you understand
                                     
And breathe, just breathe, whoa breathe, just breathe

etc.



Keep playin', buy the album!