{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":398088,"song":"Sounds Familiar","artist":"The Weakerthans","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11558113-sounds-familiar-chords-by-the-weakerthans/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/398088?type=chord","rating":4.82464,"votes":23,"content":"----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n[tab]Tuning:  standard\r\n     [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]Bm[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\ne|---2----------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nB|-------2---3---0----------------------------------------------------------|\r\nG|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nD|---0----------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nA|-------0---2--------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nE|---------------3----------------------------------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]Bm[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\n We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]Bm[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n Shedding skin faster than skin can grow[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWords to meet and to define and to, but you must know[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe same games that we played in dirt, in dusty schoolyards[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHas found a higher pitch and broader scale[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThan we feared possible, and someone must be picked last[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd one must bruise and one must fail[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd that still twitching bird was so deceived by a window[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]Bm[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo we eulogized fondly, we dug deep and threw[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]Bm[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIts elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd then we rushed out to kill something new, so we could bury that too[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe first chapters of lives almost made us give up altogether[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]Bm[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPushed towards tired forms of self-immolation[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]Bm[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat seemed so original, I must, we must never stop[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]Bm[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWatching the sky with our hands in our pockets[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]Bm[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nStop peering in windows when we know doors are shut[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]Bm[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nStop yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd my voice will scratch to yell many more[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]Bm[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut before I spill the things I mean to hide away[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOr gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]Bm[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'll drown the urge for permanence and certainty[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]Bm[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nCrouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet cement[/tab]","plain_text":"----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------","chords":["D","A","Bm","G","B","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}