Intro: (2x)
D5 A/C# C Bm
D5 A/C# C G/B
Verse: (2x)
D5 A/C# C Bm/G
I'm so alive I'm so enlightened I can
D5 A/C# C G/B
barely survive A night in my mind
D5 A/C# C Bm/G
So I've got a plan I'm gonna find out just how
D5 A/C# C G/B
boring I am And have a good time
Chorus:
D5 A/C#
'Cause ever since I tried?, trying not to find
C Bm/G
Every little meaning in my life
D5 A/C#
It's been fine, I've been cool
C G/B
With my new golden rule
D
Now it's the new deep
Bm
Down with the old me
Em7
Talk is the same cheap
A
It's been
Middle-tro:
D5 A/C# C Bm/G
D5 A/C# C G/B
Verse: (2x)
D5 A/C# C Bm/G
Is there a guy Why is he waiting
D5 A/C# C G/B
Don't you figure it out When he knows my address
D5 A/C# C Bm/G
And look at the stars Don't they remind you
D5 A/C# C G/B
Just how feeble we are Well it used to I guess
Chorus:
D5 A/C#
'Cause ever since I tried?, trying not to find
C Bm/G
Every little meaning in my life
D5 A/C#
It's been fine, I've been cool
C G/B
With my new golden rule
D
Now it's the new deep
Bm
Down with the old me
Em7
Talk is the same cheap
A
It's been
Bridge: (4x)
D/F# D4/G D/B A
I'm a new man I wear a new cologne
D/F# D4/G D/B A
And you wouldn't know me If your eyes were closed
D/F# D4/G D/B A
I know what you'd say This will last longer than
D/F# D4/G D/B A
the rest of the day But you're wrong this time
You're wrong
C5
Chorus:
D
Now it's the new deep
Bm
Down with the old me
Em7 A
I'm over the analyzing tonight
Em D/F#
Stop trying to figure it out
(you try to figure, you try to figure it out)
G A
It will only bring you down
Em D/F#
You know I used to be the back-porch-poet with my book of lines, always
G
open No and all the time I'm probably
A
Never gonna find the perfect rhyme
D5
For heavier things
Outro: (Fade)
A/C# C Bm/G
D5 A/C# C G/B
The intro and verses can also be played like this:
Tempo (BPM): 73
{Intro/Verse}
e ----5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5
B ----3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2
G ----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
D ----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
A ----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
E ----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
e ----3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2
B ----1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0
G ----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
D ----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
A ----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
E ----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
This is continually repeated throughout the entire song.