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Heaven is a Better Place Today - The Tragically Hip
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Album: In Between Evolution (2004)
Tabbed by: Rick West
Tuning: EADGBe
Intro:
C C C C
e|-------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------|
D|-----9-------9-------9-------9-|
A|-----9-------9-------9-------9-|
E|-8-8-8---8-8-8---8-8-8---8-8-8-|
C C
Here's a glue guy, a performance god,
B B
a makeshift shrine, newly laid sod,
F F C C
hardly even trying, gives the nod.
F E D E
I sure hope I am not the type to dwell,
F E D E
hope I'm a fast healer, fast as hell.
F E D E
Heaven is a better place today because of this.
C B A G
But the world is just not the same.
B C D C
If and when you get into that endzone
B C E F
act like you've been there a thousand times before.
G C C
Don't blame. Don't say people lose people all the time anymore.
C C B
A toonie to the busker and a husky 'keep it comin' under my breath,
B F
but then said, 'though, if you wouldn't mind,
F C
less crying and more trying,
C
more trying and less crying'.
F E D E
I'm not the type to dwell.
F E D C G
I'm a fast healer fast as hell.
F E D E
Heaven is a better place today because of this,
C B A G
but the world is just not the same.
B C D C
If and when you get into that endzone
B C E F
act like you've been there a thousand times before.
G
Don't blame and don't say people lose people all the time anymore.
Solo:
C C B B F F
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-13--13--13--15-13----13-15--12--12--12--15-12--12-15--13-----------13---------|
G|---12--12----------12----------11--11---------11---------12-14-12-14--12-14-12-|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C B A G
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|---------666--4-|
D|-10-9--7-777--5-|
A|-10-9--7-777--5-|
E|-8--7--5-555--3-|
B C D C
If and when you get into that endzone
C E F
act like you've been there a thousand times before.
G
Don't blame and don't say people lose people all the time anymore.
F E D C (x4)
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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