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Slight Figure of Speech
Avett Brothers
Capo 2
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3 4 G: 3x0003 |
32 1
C: x32010 |
132
D: xx0232 |
12
Em: 022000 |
Intro:
/ G (hold) - - / G (hold) - - / G (hold) - - / G (hold) - - /
G (hold 2) C
They say you're got to lose a couple fights to win
D G
It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting
G (hold) C
They say that this is where the fun begins
D G (2, hold 2nd measure)
I guess it's time that I was quitting
Chorus:
Em D
A slight figure of speech
G C
I cut my chest wide open
Em D
They come and watch us bleed
G C D (2)
Is it art like I was hoping now?
G (2, hold 2nd measure) C
They said "I hope that you will never change"
D G
I went and cut my hair
G (hold) C
They say "Don't take your business to the big time"
D G (2, hold 2nd measure)
I bought us tickets there
Chorus
Bridge:
(w/G riff)
What did you expect
And what did you forget
That to live you let go of me with each step
It becomes a progression I won't let regret manifest
To aggression
Are you to assess what I've been? What I am? Or become?
Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb
It can be to
Attack those around 'cause you're
True to color, a town, a time, or a place?
It's not you, it's not mine
And besides it is gone
And you never will find it again
But I don't want to fight
I just ask let me be
I won't give the chance to be my enemy
So go home
Think it through
G (hold 2) C
A jet plane and a big idea
D G
I jump over the sea
G (hold) C
“What if’s” hot on my trail
D G (2, hold 2nd measure)
But that can't catch me, no
Chorus
G Riff x8
/ G (hold) - - / G (hold) - - / G (hold) - - /
The End
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