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Artist: Sarah Harmer
Song Title: Basement Apartment
Submitted by: Tim Lawson (user turinbrakes)
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This is a great song but i couldn't find any tabs for this so i just tabbed it out
myself and i'm pretty sure this is 100% accurate so check it out.
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Standard Tuning: EADGBe
Capo: 3th Fret
Chords: (written as used without capo)
e|-3----|--3---|--2---|--0---|
B|-3----|--3---|--3---|--1---|
G|-0----|--0---|--2---|--0---|
D|-2----|--0---|--0---|--2---|
A|-3----|--2---|--0---|--3---|
E|-x----|--3---|--0(2)|--3---|
Okay, so the most 'tricky' part
(as far as you wanna call it tricky)
is the rhytm of the Cadd9 and the G chords..
The rhytm of these two particular chords
is used troughout the whole song except
for the chorus..
e|-------3----3--333--
B|-------3----0--000--
G|-------0----0--000--
D|-----2-2----0--000--
A|---3---3----2--222--
E|-------x----3--333-- (repeated)
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[Intro:] (guitar kicks in just before the laughing part)
, , , ,
, , , (repeat 2x times)
[Verse:]
You live out where the street ends
in a basement apt. with one of your friends
and the tap drips all night
water torture in the sink
The furnace is burning
but it's still cold i think ___
, , , , ,
I can smell the bleach
that they use in the hall
but it can't clean the dirt off of me
It's seeping under the door
in across the floor
it's starting to hurt
[Chorus:]
() ()
Everytime I breatthe__|
Everytime I try to leave__|
Everytime I breathe_____|
[Verse:]
Now the toaster sticks
and the empties are piled
I haven't been up the stairs in awhile now
I gotta wash the sheets on my bed
gotta watch the things that go unsaid
God I wish we'd leave it at this____|
[Repeat Chorus] (except the beginning D & C
chords wich are already
played at the end of verse)
[Verse]
And every evening you open the door
You come down
There's nothing like watching tv all night on the ground
and no one is watching me slide
below street level
C (pump up this chord, get ready for the chorus)
barely alive
[Instrumental] (chords from the chorus)
[Last verse]
Now we live out where the street ends
in a basement apt. just like our friends
We always said that we were different
Cadd0
but you know now that we weren't
'cause there's holes in all the bottles
and my lungs hurt___|
[Repeat Chorus]
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03/05/02
That’s it, a very nice song. You can easilly perform this with just an accoustic, that’s
how i first played it. Do you have any comment, suggestions, deaththreaths or marriage