Hey! Heres my favorite Jawbreaker song, the "unlisted track" off of Dear You, the last
anyone ever heard from them before ETC. came out. I was having trouble finding a 100%
tab on the internet, so I went ahead and pieced together my own version. Hopefully this
help some people out
chords used: (Lo E--Hi E)
B7 X 2 1 2 0 2
E 0 2 2 1 0 0
C# X 4 6 6 6 4
G# 4 6 6 5 4 4
A 5 7 7 6 5 5
F# 2 4 4 3 2 2
D7 X 5 7 5 7 X
E(var.) 0 7 9 9 0 0
C X 3 5 5 X X
C# diss. X 4 5 6 X X
C#min X X 11 9 9 X
Eb X 6 8 8 X X
D X 5 7 7 7 5
E C#
You can't sell me incense
G# A
My world smells good enough to eat
C# G# A
So let's not eat, just smell the good and longing
F#
Not owning
E(var.) C#diss.
We'll circle like insects
G# A
Incensing the grieve liquored herd
C# G# A
Have you heard an encouraging word from them
F# (slide from doing F# on the 5th fret, to 3rd, then to 2nd)
They pretend
D7 C#m
To be so above it all
D7 A
Or so they would have you think
C# F# B7 ->>
I think, no one thinks at all
E C#
You might show some interest
G# A
You're world looks good enough to eat
C# G# A
I see the ghost of a better world Living in the disbelief
F#
In ghosts
E(var.) C#diss.
Everyone tells me they're crazy
G# A
Well crazy people aren't so fucking boring
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/j/jawbreaker/73931.html ]
C# G# A
Wake me when your through being cool, cause I'm snoring
F# (slide from F# on the 5th fret, to 3rd, then to 2nd)
And hoping
D7 C#m
To see you beside yourself
D7 A
Show me the rose stuff of you
F# G#
Would you
G# B7 ->>
Do it for yourself
(Here is where Blake picks the chords, starting on the A string. It ends at the C
and goes like this for each line:)
C# A B C# C#
or for me, we both need a change (Your..)
e|-------------|-------------|--------------|-------------|---------------|
B|-------------|-------------|--------------|-------------|---------------|
G|--------6----|-------2-----|---------4----|--------6----|-------6-------|
D|-----6-----6-|-----2----2--|------4-----4-|-----6-----6-|----6-----6----|
A|--4----------|--0----------|---2----------|--4----------|--4------------|
E|-------------|-------------|--------------|-------------|---------------|
C# A B
Your fear or normalcy is hardly strange
C# A B
Let's be freaks, plain clothes police
C# A B C#
Let's be deliberate, because it's obvious to me
C Eb D
Deliberately, Weird is pretty obvious….
E C#
So color me obvious
G# A
I just want to be happy half the time
C# G# A F# (Slide from 5th fret to 2nd fret)
And blue only when I have the time
Thats about it! I hope this helps some people learn this awesome accoustic song! Any
can be PMed to me.
