The Get Up Kids
Something To Write Home about
1999 Vagrant Records
Key: E
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C#m - x46654
B - x24442
A - x02220
E - 022100
G#m -466444
C - x32010
F#m - 244222
Ab/C - x365xx
Intro: C#m-B-A-E-G#m---A (x3)
Organ: Will enter simultaneously with drums at 2nd time
e|-4----4----2-0--2-0--4----4----5----5---
B|---5----5--------------5----5----5----5-
G|----------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------- x2
A|----------------------------------------
E|----------------------------------------
Verse 1:
E
You really think that you??re bigger than this
Abm
To the tune of ten thousand lisps
A
Who would have thought we??d represent
C
When I can??t take a compliment?
E
Overexposure is the key
Abm
And any focus on me
A
Is appreciated
C
As it should be
Refrain 1:
C#mAbm
No wonder now
AEAbm
I finally found
A
The right formula look for
Chorus 1:
EAbm
You taught me how
AB
I play the fool
EAbm
Every mistake that I make
AF#m
I couldn??t have made without you
EAbm
What??s said is done
AB
And plain to see
ABC
You take it all too seriously
(Repeat Intro but only twice)
Verse 2:
E
What better way to make an honest mistake
Abm
Than a televised hand of fate
A
When the world??s closing in on you
C
A decision would be overdue
E
Now nothing left is out of hand
Abm
A stronger jaded man stands
A
If the world is ending
C
Then we toast to it
Refrain 2:
C#mAbm
I??m stronger now
AE
But not without
AbmA
The right formula look for
Chorus 2:
EAbm
You taught me how
AB
I play the fool
EAbm
Every mistake that I make
AF#m
I couldn??t have made without you
EAbm
What??s said is done
AB
And plain to see
AB
Here??s all you get from me
Ab/C
Here??s all you get from me
Organ: C#m(hold)-A(hold)-E(hold)-G#m(hold)
Bridge:
C#mA
I??m down for whatever
EAbm
What??s there left to wait for?
C#mA
I??m down for whatever
EAbm
What??s there left to wait for?
A-BA-BAb/C
wait for I wait
(Repeat Chorus 2)
End on C#m