Being Somebody Else chords

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Capo: 2st fret

  			

 
Capo on 2nd  


Intro: 
D5 - Em11 - C -  
D5 - Em11 - Cadd9 - 
D5 - Em11 - C -  
D5 - Em11 - Cadd9  

         D5                     Em11          C                            
How are      you going to pa -        ss the     time of day  
         D5             Em11         C        C                              
In your      beautiful        empty     shell  
             D5              Em11                   C                      
When you've      shaken the        hand of so ma -     ny sinceroes  
     D5                    Em11             G/B       (C)                        
You      feel like a fa -        ke your -       self  



Cadd9                                                               
       How do you choose between  
Cadd9                                                               
       you and me when 
E7                                                               
     we both feed on  
E7                                                               
     being somebody  
D5        Em11       C       D5       Em11      Cadd9                                       
     E -        E -     E -      E -        lse  


         D5                  Em11           C                              
So you      suck on the ju -        ice of      youth and use  
     D5                 Em11         C       C                               
any      chemical yo -        u can     get  
         D5                  Em11            C                             
You get      deeper in de -        bt every     step you take  
          D5                 Em11           G/B        (C)                      
on your      ladder of li -        feless -       ness  



Cadd9                                                               
            Bye bye to the  
Cadd9                                                               
        boring times 
       E7                                                         
Hel -      lo to my friend,  
         E7                                                       
how you      been being somebody else?  
D5        Em11       C       D5       Em11                                           
     E -        E -     E -      E -        lse  
Cadd9                                                               
       somebody, somebody 


Break: 
D5 - Em11 - C -  
D5 - Em11 - Cadd9 - 
D5 - Em11 - C -  
D5 - Em11 - Cadd9 -  

D5 -    E7 -    F6 -    G6 -     
D5 -    B -     C -         D5 / 

e|-------/-------/-------/-------| 
B|-------/-------/------3/-------| 
G|-------/----1-2/----5--/----1-2|    2x  
D|----0h4/--0----/--5----/--0----| 
A|--0----/-------/3------/-------| 
D|0------/2------/-------/x------| 


         D5                      Em11              C                      
Now the      troops in you he -       ad won't o -     bey what you say  
         D5               Em11         C         C                           
And the      mutiny see -       ms to     spread  
D5                     Em11          C                                     
    all you can hea -        r is a     voice in your ear  
          D5                     Em11           G/B      (C)                   
and it's      telling you tha -        t you're      dead  



Cadd9                                                               
       The sun sets in a  
Cadd9                                                               
       coffee cup,  
     E7                                                           
the      moon throws up  
     E7                                                           
The      flood flows over the  
G                                                               
    house,  
     G               G                                              
The     books start     jumping from the  
F         F                                                         
    shelf  
         F                            E7                             
And the     clothes horse races it -      self  
                  E7                                              
Now we're all so      busy being somebody  
D5 /                                                              
     E - E - E - lse 


Outro: 
D5 - Em11 - C                                                               
               somebody, somebody   4x  

D5 -    E7 -    F6 -    G6 -     
D5 -    B -     C -         D5 / 

D5 - Em11 - C      6x  
D5