Easiest to tune 1/2-step down and transpose chord shapes up 1 half-step (first chord shape Em)
Alternative: capo 6, transpose ± 6 (first chord Am)
PVRIS sometimes play this in D standard instead (two 1/2-steps down from standard, same shapes).
Tab key
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| (#) repeat (delay)
| / slide up
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ORDER: I V1 PC1 INT1 C INT2 V2 PC2 C INT3 B INT4 C INT5 O
[INTRO]
d#|-----------------|-----------------|-------|
A#|-----------------|-----------------|-------|
F#|-----------------|---5-----4--(4)--|-------|
C#|---5-------------|-7---------------|-------|
G#|-7---------------|-----------------|-------|
D#|-----------------|-----------------|-------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + a
D#m
(corrected to reflect live performances)
d#|-----------------|-----------------|-----------0-----|------------------|
A#|-----------------|-----------------|-------0---------|------------------|
F#|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0---0-|---0-------------|5/7-----5-----4---|
C#|-2---2---2---2---|-4---4---5---0---|-2---2-----------|------------------|
G#|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
D#|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D#m
Two years gone...
D#m C#
Oh, oh, wo-oah, oh, oh, wo-oah
Bmaj7 G#m
Oh, oh, wo-oah, wo-oah, wo-oah
D#m C#
Oh, oh, wo-oah, oh, oh, wo-oah (ooh...)
Bmaj7 G#m
Oh, oh, wo-oah, wo-oah, wo-oah
[VERSE 1]
D#m C#
Two years gone
B B
Came back as some bones and so cynical
G#m D#m C#
This skin don't feel like home
B B G#m
It's all overgrown but you'll never know
[PRE-CHORUS 1]
D#m C#
Take the mirror from the wall so I can't see myself at all
1 2 3 4
B6 G#m
Don't wanna see another damn inch of my skull
D#m C#
Forget the poems of saints and ghosts, I'm the one I fear the most
1 2 3 4
B6 G#m
Little did I know that I was only crying wolf
[INTERLUDE 1]
(synth only)
D#m
[CHORUS]
D#m C#
I know it's so wrong but I'm so far gone
Bmaj7 G#m6
Don't need you to tell me I'm so cynical
D#m C#
Quit being so oh, over-skeptical
Bmaj7 G#m6
Don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable
[INTERLUDE 2]
D#m C#
Ooh...
B G#m6
I don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable
[VERSE 2]
D#m C#
Push and pull, oh, it's all getting old
B G#m
No I didn't want this throne (no I didn't want this) yeah
D#m C#
Only fools make feasts of gold
B B G#m
They rot the fruit on tables...
[PRE-CHORUS 2]
D#m
When did I get so pitiful,
C#
Just a goddamn corpse in a centerfold?
Bmaj7
You got my back against the wall,
G#m6
and now I can't e - ver get comfortable
D#m
No I never sold my soul;
C#
if I ever do, throw my bones to the wolves
Bmaj7
No I never sold my soul,
G#m
No I never sold mine...
[CHORUS]
D#m C#
I know it's so wrong but I'm so far gone
Bmaj7 G#m6
Don't need you to tell me I'm so cynical
D#m C#
Quit being so oh, over-skeptical
Bmaj7 G#m6
Don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable
[INTERLUDE 3]
D#m C#
Ooh...
B G#m6
I don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable
D#m C#
Ooh...
B G#m6
I don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable
[BRIDGE]
(synth-only beginning, toms every other line)
B
No, I'll never sell my... soul
C#
No I'll never sell my... soul
G#m
No I'll never sell my... soul
G#m
No I'll never sell my...
(start build-up, toms on all lines)
B
No, I'll never sell my... soul
C#
No, I'll never sell my... soul
G#m
No, I'll never sell my... soul
G#m
No, I'll never sell my...
B
No, I'll never sell my... soul
C#
No, I'll never sell my... soul
G#m
No, I'll never sell my... soul
G#m
No, I'll never sell my...
(full band)
B
No, I'll never sell my soul
C#
No, I'll never sell my... soul
G#m
No, I'll never sell my soul
G#m
No, I'll never sell my...
B
No, I'll never sell my... soul
C#
No, I'll never sell my soul
G#m
No, I'll never sell my... soul
G#m
No, I'll never sell... my...
[INTERLUDE 4]
(drums)
B | C# C# n.c. |
[CHORUS]
D#m C#
I know it's so wrong but I'm so far gone
Bmaj7 G#m6
Don't need you to tell me I'm so cynical
D#m C#
Quit being so oh, over-skeptical
Bmaj7 G#m6
Don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable
[INTERLUDE 5]
D#m C#
Ooh...
B G#m6
I don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable
D#m C#
Ooh...
B G#m6
I don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable
[OUTRO]
D#m C# B
Ooh... (I died like them)
D#m C# B
Ooh...