Man Overboard - Sad Chords

Tuning: Standard EADGBe


Verse 1:
F#
Painting over portraits
 Fm
again I pretend
     Bbm
This isn't how I
knew it would end
                C#
Cause there are no
G#   F#          Fm
more pages in my book
             Bbm
And there is too
much ink in my pen
   C#  G#  F#
So now I'm wishing that
                Fm
the cycle would end so
         Bbm
then I'd learn to be
somebody's man Cause
         C#  G#
there is too much
F#              Fm
history for the history
books And I'd like to
 Bbm
start them again


Chorus 1:
F#          G#
  I hate me so unoriginal
Bbm
No other feeling could
           G#
feel so traditional
F#            G#
  Cause every year
         Bbm
I end up here
I end up here
   C# G# F#
So now     you hate me?
G#
Oh how original
Bbm
   Well I'm used to it
       G#
Lone individual
F#        G#
  Another year and
          Bbm
I'm still here
                  C# G#
And I'm still here


Verse 2:
F#
Looking in the mirror
    Fm
I'm sure I'm sure
      Bbm
And I didn't do those
things from before
               C# G#
Cause there is no more
F#               Fm
time left on the clock
            Bbm
And you are walking out
                  C#
the front door So now
G#  F#
I'm learning to be wrong
     Fm
even more the whore The
Bbm
emptiness I try to ignore
                C# G#
Cause there are no more
F#            Fm
bullets in my gun
         Bbm
And I am trying to
                 G# F# drumbeats G# drumbeats
prepare for a war


(Repeat Chorus 1)


Breakdown:
    G#  F#
And you say
And you say
And you say
I'll take it
out on myself
I'll take it
       G# Bbm
out on my friends
   G# F#
And   you say
And you say
And you say

I've got this

knife to my throat

and there's this
G#          Bbm
blood on my hands
And you say
And you say


Bridge: Spoken
F#
  Is it selfish?
G#
  Well if so fine
Bbm
   I've always been selfish
                F#
And that's just one of the
G#                   Bbm
many problems I will never
be able to fix I believe
F#
I am making everyone's
G#
lives around me worse
Bbm
Increasingly worse
I am a disease to my
F#
friends and family
G#
Please leave me alone
(And if you pick me up)


Verse 3:
F#
  We're still
     G#
young  It's over
Bbm
   I'm so dumb
I love her
F#
   I'm sorry
G#
   I hate me
F#
   It was fine
Til lately
(pick me up)


Chorus 2:
F#          G#
  I hate me so unoriginal
Bbm
No other feeling could
           G#
feel so traditional
F#            G#
  Cause every year
         Bbm
I end up here
I end up here
   C# G# F#
So now     you hate me?
G#             Bbm
Oh how original
F#        G#
  Another year and
          Bbm G# F#(hold)
I'm still here