Artist: The Eels
Album: The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
Song: Mistakes of My Youth
There are two guitars in this song, The tab has been re arranged for one guitar.
If you are feeling ambitious, you can tune the top two strings up 1 1/2 steps, and strum, played with the base notes below.
INTRO VERSE
-0-0-0-0-0------0-0-0-2-
-0-0-0-2-2------2-2-2-2-
-x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x-
-x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x-
-x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x-
-x-x-x-x-x------x-x-x-x-
Otherwise just play these chords.
Chords used in this song:
C/G B/G G Em/G F#/G D C Bm
--x------x-----3-----0--------2-----x----x----2
--3------2-----2-----2--------0-----x----3----2
--2------0-----0-----2--------0-----0----2----4
--0------0-----0-----0--------0-----2----0----4
--3------3-----3-----3--------3-----3----1----3
--3------3-----3-----3--------3-----2----0----2
Style: In the intro and verse, pick the bass note and strum; for the chorus, just strum.
INTRO
C/G B/G G Em/G G G
G F#/G C/G D
G F#/G C/G D G
F#/G C/G
In the waiting days ahead
D G
I've got to to look back down the road
F#/G C/G D G
I know that it's not too late
F#/G C/G
All the stupid things I said
D G
the people I hurt and let down
F#/G C/G D C
well I hope that it's not my fate
D Bm C C
To keep defeating... my own self
D Bm C
and keep repeating... yesterday
C/G Bm/G G Em/G
I can't keep defeating myself
C/G Bm/G G C/G C/G C/G G
I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth
F#/G C/G
In the dark of night I might
D G
be able to make myself think
F#/G C/G D G
that I'm still a younger man
F#/G C/G
When the light of day shines down
D G
there's no way to get around it
F#/G C/G D C
I am not the younger man
D Bm C C
I keep defeating... my own self
D Bm C
and keep repeating... yesterday
C/G Bm/G G Em/G
I can't keep defeating myself
C/G Bm/G G C/G C/G C/G C
I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth
D Bm
The choice is mine for making
C C
a better road ahead
D Bm
The road that I've been taking
C
heading for a dead end
C/G Bm/G G C/G C/G C/G
But it's not too late to turn around
BRIDGE G F#/G C/G D G F#/G C/G D G
F#/G C/G
In the final moments I
D G
hope that I know that I tried
F#/G C/G D C
to do the best I could
D Bm C C
To stop defeating... my own self
D Bm C
and stop repeating... yesterday
C/G Bm/G G Em/G
I can't keep defeating myself
C/G Bm/G G C/G C/G C/G G
I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth
OUTRO
G F#/G C/G D (Repeated and faded)
