xSong: By the Throat
Band: Dead to Me
Album: Cuban Ballerina
Key: E (standard tuning)
chords used
e|--4---2---0---0---6--|
b|--5---4---0---2---7--|
g|--6---4---1---2---8--|
d|--6---4---2---2---8--|
a|--4---2---2---0---6--|
e|----------0----------|
C#m B E A Ebm
Verse: C#m, B, E, A, C#m, B, E (2 measures)
Bridge: A, B, C#m, Ebm
Chorus: E, B, A, B
Verse:
C#m B
Feel, don't watch the mercury drop
E A
Things fell apart and then I turned and stopped and said
C#m B E
I can't go on anymore like this
Verse x2
Save me from the tired hums
The crooked stares of the broken ones
One by one, let's watch them all disappear
I used to climb up to the attic at night
I'd end up in the basement screaming
I'm floating above all of you now
little riff
e|--------------------------------------------------|
b|--------------------------------------------------|
g|--9-8-9-6-----------------------------------------|
d|----------9-6-99999999-7777-66-4-9----------------|
a|--------------------------------------9----7-7-7-7|
e|--------------------------------------------------|
Bridge:
A B C#m Ebm
It feels like now they've got me by the throat
Chorus:
E B
You make it sound so sincere
A A
I never believe what I always hear
Chorus: x3
I never thought I'd see the day
They've got me by the throat
I'm force-fed all the answers
My paranoia spreads like cancer
I'm so far from all my problems now
C#m, B
E
So I packed what's left of me and I'm leaving
C#m B E
These city walls are closing in on me
Verse:
Take me back before it all began
Before I'd run and before I cared
Sometimes my best just isn't enough
little riff number 2 (basically the same thing with a little lick at the end)
e|-------------------------------------------------------|
b|----------------------------------------7h9p7----------|
g|--9-8-9-6-------------------------------------9-9-9-9--|
d|----------9-6-99999999-7777-66-4-9---------------------|
a|--------------------------------------9----------------|
e|-------------------------------------------------------|
Bridge:
It feels like now they've got me by the throat
Chorus: x4
You make it sound so sincere
I never believe what I always hear
I never thought I'd see the day
They've got me by the throat
I'm force-fed all the answers
My paranoia just spreads like cancer
I'm so far from all my problems now
Palm mute: E
-: measures played %: pause
Break: E--A, E--B, E-%A
E AE BE A B }x2
They've got me by the throat }
Verse:
All of the things that I've left behind
Have washed out to sea and soon comes
The day that a hard rain falls on me
