Local Man Ruins Everything

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Slack-Key Tuning

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G                      A
  The fountain was off. 
              D                                              G
This is the first time I've been back to the city in months.
                 A                 D
I'm trying to hold it together but irony's found cracks in the foundation. 
G              A
  And you know, 
  D
I try so hard to be some great white hope 
    G                 A              Bm              E       G         A
But I can't shake the feeling that tonight I'm gonna end up shaking in bed
  D
alone. 

Bm                       A                            D
  I'm not a self-help book; I'm just a fucked up kid. 
                  G                 Bm
I had to take my own advice and I did. 
           A                D    G
Now I'm waiting for it to sink in. 
Bm            A                      D
  Expect me standing tall, back against the wall, 
          G
'Cause what I learned was 
Bm                 A
   It's not about forcing happiness; 
D                                       G
It's about not letting the sadness win. 

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             G
I don't have roses in the closet 
             D
But I've got pictures in a drawer 
     G         
It's everything left in me 
        D
Not to stare at them anymore. 
  G                              D
I walked upstairs and shaved my beard. 
            G
I felt like I was holding sadness here
D
(I was holding sadness here)

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Bm                       A                            D
  I'm not a self-help book; I'm just a fucked up kid. 
                  G                 Bm
I had to take my own advice and I did. 
         A                 D    G
Now I'm waiting for it to sink in. 
Bm             A                     D
  Expect me standing tall, back against the wall, 
       G
'Cause what I learned was 
Bm                A
   It's not about forcing happiness; 
D                                     G
It's about not letting the sadness win. 

             G            A
I don't have roses in the closet 
             D
But I've got pictures in a drawer 
     G                A
It's everything left in me 
         D
Not to stare at them anymore. 

Bm                       A                            D
  I'm not a self-help book; I'm just a fucked up kid. 
                   G                 Bm
I had to take my own advice and I did. 
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I'm not a self-help book; I'm just a fucked up kid. 
                                     G
I had to take my own advice and I did.

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