[Intro - Just drums B S (SS)BB - Capo at 6 for original key] [2 bars - later in song you can start sextuplet strums on downstroke to support busier vocal phrases]
[Verse 1 - Capo 3 for Guido - Second 'Oh Oh' suggests Cmaj7] [Em] First things first, I'ma say all the words inside my [C] head...I'm fired up and [B7] tired of the way that things have [Em] been oh-ooh ... The way that things have [C] been, oh- [B7] ooh-ooh
[Em] Second thing second, don't you tell me what you think that I can [C] be I'm the one at the [B7] sail, I'm the master of my [Em] sea, oh-ooh The master of my [C] sea, oh- [B7] ooh-ooh
[Pre-Chorus - strumming in 6s?] I was [Em] broken from a young age, taking my [Em] sulking to the masses Writing my [C] po....ems for the few, that looked at me, t [B7] ook to me, shook to me, feeling me Singing from [Em] heartache, from the pain, take up my [Em] message from the veins Speaking my [C] lesson from the brain, seeing the [B7] beauty through the...
[Chorus - Pain on snare] [Em] Pain! You made me a, you made me a be [C] liever, be [B7] liever [Em] Pain! You break me down, you build me up, be [C] liever, be [B7] liever [Em] Pain! Oh, [Em] let the bullets fly, oh, let them [C] rain My [B7] life, my love, my drive, they came from... [Em] Pain! You made me a, you made me a be [C] liever, be [B7] liever
[Verse 2] [Em] Third things third, send a [Em] prayer to the ones up a [C] bove All the hate that you've [B7] heard has turned your spirit to a [Em] dove, oh-ooh Your spirit up a [C] bove, oh- [B7] ooh-ooh
[Pre-Chorus - strumming in 6s?] I was [Em] choking in the crowd, building my [Em] rain up in the cloud Falling like [C] ashes to the ground, hoping my [B7] feelings, they would drown But they [Em] never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing, in [Em] hibited, limited Till it broke open and [C] rained down..... it rained [B7] down, like...
[Chorus - Pain on snare] [Em] Pain! You made me a, you made me a be [C] liever, be [B7] liever [Em] Pain! You break me down, you build me up, be [C] liever, be [B7] liever [Em] Pain! Oh, [Em] let the bullets fly, oh, let them [C] rain My [B7] life, my love, my drive, they came from... [Em] Pain! You made me a, you made me a be [C] liever, be [B7] liever
[Verse 3 - No drums] [Em] Last things last, by the [Em] grace of the fire and the [C] flames .. You're the face of the [B7] future, the blood in my [Em] veins, oh-ooh The [Em] blood in my [C] veins, oh- [B7] ooh-ooh
[Alternative chords?] But they [C] never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing, inhibited, limited Till it broke open and [D] rained down, it rained [B/D#] down, [N.C.] like...
[Chorus - Full drums] [Em] Pain! You made me a, you made me a be [C] liever, be [B7] liever [Em] Pain! You break me down, you build me up, be [C] liever, be [B7] liever [Em] Pain! Oh, [Em] let the bullets fly, oh, let them [C] rain My [B7] life, my love, my drive, they came from... [Em] Pain! You made me a, you made me a be [C] liever, be (stop) [B7] liever
[Intro - Full riff and drums - DROP D] [D] (twice round riff)
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[Verse 1 - singing whilst playing the riff] I've had a [D]large mouth bass bust [D] my line A+couple+of [D]beautiful girls tell [D]me good bye Trucks [D] break down, dogs [D] run off Po [D] liticians lie, being [D]fired by the boss
[Verse 2] It takes [D]one hand to count the things I can [D]count on There ain't [D]much man, that ain't never let [D]me down (Drums stop - play descending riff)
[Chorus - Slide up to notes] [D]Long neck ice cold beer [G] never broke my [D]heart Like [D]diamond rings and football teams have torn [A] this boy apart Like a [D]neon dream it just dawned on me, that bars [G] and this guitar And [D]*long neck ice cold beer [A] never broke* my [D]heart (** vocal stay on F#)
[Riff - just once] [D]
[Verse 2] she was a Ca [D] ro li na blue [D] jean baby Fire [D] in her eyes that [D]drove me crazy .. it was [D]Red tail lights when she [D] left town .. If I [D]didn't know then, I [D] sure know now
[Chorus - Slide up to notes] [D]Long neck ice cold beer [G] never broke my [D]heart Like [D]diamond rings and football teams have torn [A] this boy apart Like a [D]neon dream it just dawned on me, that bars [G] and this guitar And [D]long neck ice cold beer [A] never broke my [D]heart
[Solo] [G][D][E][A]
[Verse 4 - JUST BASS DRUM] It takes [D]one hand to count the things I can [D]count on But I got [D]one hand that's gripping down on a [D] cold one
[Random Pause]
[Chorus - No drums] [N.C.]Long neck ice cold(snare - then drums in) beer [G] never broke my [D]heart Like [D]diamond rings and football teams have torn [A] this boy apart Like a [D]neon dream it just dawned on me, that bars [G] and this guitar And [D]long neck ice cold beer [A] never broke my [D]heart, no
[Riff out with solo] [D] It never broke my heart (play riff 4 times)
