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Butch Walker
"The best thing you never had"
From the album "Letters (2004)"
Tabbed by Etni3s.
Tuning: DADGAD
Comment:
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Big shout out to Balta for his live version tab. Without it I would have
never gotten this right. Well.. I think it's fair to say that this is
pretty much a re-write of his tab. This is the album version by the way.
Have fun! Now grab your guitar and rock out!
Update note:
Changed it to DADGAD tuning and changed the chords a bit.
// Etni3s, etni3s[at]fan-chat[dot]com
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Chords
D Dmaj7 G E5 F#5 G5 G#5 A5
D|--0---0-------0--(2)--(4)---(5)--(6)--(7)--
A|--0---0-------0--(2)--(4)---(5)--(6)--(7)--
G|--7---6-------7--(4)--(6)---(7)--(8)--(9)--
D|--7---7-------5---2----4-----5----6----7---
A|--5---5-------5---2----4-----5----6----7---
D|--0---0-------5---2----4-----5----6----7---
VERSE 1-------------------------------------------------------------------
D
Hello, how ya doin'
Dmaj7 G
What's it like to ruin all my self esteem?
Let me blow off some steam
D Dmaj7
For five years I waited so why am I jaded
G
To get back at you? What makes it cool when
CHORUS--------------------------------------------------------------------
G D
You act like nothing ever happened
G D
I feel like I should feel bad
G
But I can't like
D E5
Someone who thought They're the only one that mattered
F#5
I hope that you're flattered
G5
cause you broke this down
A5 D Dmaj7 G
The best thing that you never had
VERSE 2-------------------------------------------------------------------
D
And it seems like I'm lost
Dmaj7
Somehow my heart got lost
G
On the way to my head and my brain cells are dead
D
and the craziness shows
Dmaj7 G
now I start to go when the green turns to red
and I should be dead when
CHORUS--------------------------------------------------------------------
G D
You act like nothing ever happened
G D
I feel like I should feel bad
G
But I can't like
D E5
Someone who thought They're the only one that mattered
F#5
While my heart got shattered
G5
like romantic roadkill
F#5
my heart is all splattered
E5
your ego got fatter
F#5
I hope that you're flattered
G5
cause you broke this down
A5 D Dmaj7 G
The best thing that you never had
BRIDGE--------------------------------------------------------------------
E5
Like the toilet seat never got lifted
D
And I pissed on your confidence
When you weren't around
E5
How could that be?
F#5
Don't turn this around
G5
You were the one who
A5 G5 F#5 E5
Drove my ass right to the ground
CHORUS--------------------------------------------------------------------
G D
When you act like nothing ever happened
G D
I feel like I should feel bad
G
But I can't like
D E5
Someone who thought they're the only one that mattered
F#5
While my heart got shattered
G5
like romantic roadkill
F#5
my heart is all splattered
E5
your ego got fatter
F#5
I hope that you're flattered
G5 G#5
cause you broke this down, you broke this down
A5 D Dmaj7 G
The best thing, the best thing, the best thing... you never had
Great tab but live I think he plays it in DADGAD tuning and moves all the G string notes up 2 frets, at least that's how he played it in a video from '03 that I have; it has him tuning at the beginning.
Updated the tab. I realized I changed the way I play it so it didn't match the tab anymore :)
Anyways, play with the song, it's a very good song to get some easy improv into. It also makes it more fun to play, just listen when butch plays it. No two recordings sound alike.
Sorry new to tabs.. what do the brackets mean? thanks