Southern State Chords

by Bright Eyes
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Author Jumbo Pastry [a] 60. Last edit on Feb 13, 2014

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Bright Eyes - Southern State
 
This is the version from the live album Motion Sickness released late 2005.
Well...it's supposed to be...
 
 
         F
Well the songs you sung spiraled
    Am
And hung 'round like echoes 
  Bb                 C
Or ripples on a pond
 
       F
So you circled the globe
        Am
Spent a year on the road
      Bb           C
Without ever going home
 
            F
More than a couple of days, 
           Am
Then you’d leave right away
        Bb               C
Run to a girl you barely know
 
        F
But you like how she sings
        Am
And you can’t help but think
            Bb                  C
That there’s something that she knows and could teach you
 
Bb                              C
  While you’re sleeping in that southern state
Bb                               C
  Where the bars are filled with people you can’t hate
    Bb
But try as you try
    C
You still can’t relate to them 
        Bb                     C
And you drink that whiskey down
               Am
As they ask you, 
 
                 C       F
“Are you who you say you are?”
                Bb               F
Are you who you say that you are?
                Bb                C
Are you who you say that you are, you…
                Bb               F
Are you who you say that you are?
                Bb      F    E Bb
Are you who you say you are?
              C
The fact that you can’t tell makes us like you even more
 
              F
So now you’re trying again
        Am
Or just visiting friends
      Bb                   C
One had just had his heart broke
 
              F
For the first time in his life
       Am
He realized there are times
        Bb              C
When you can’t make it alone
 
               F
But now you’re giving advice
      Am
As if you had the right
   Bb               C
To use a word like “love”
 
         F
It’s a negotiable term
          Am
What gets said’s not what’s heard
        Bb                 C
So it’s different then for everyone
 
                Bb                  C
But you're still hanging ‘round that college town
        Bb                          C
With your…your new life your new lover you’ve found 
           Bb                      C
And you’re keeping her up at night, bringing her down
                 Bb                  C
She’ll watch you drink yourself to death
    Am
But won’t ask you, 
 
         C               F
“is this really what you want?”
        Bb              F
Is this really what you want?
           Bb                   C
Is this really what you is this what...
           Bb             F
Is this really what you want?
        Bb               F    E Bb
Is this really what you want?
             C                                                F, Am
Are you just sticking with it now because it’s all you’ve got?
             Bb                           C                   F, Am
Are you just sticking with it now because it’s all you’ve got?
                               Bb
Yeah that’s it, I think you’re sticking with me now 
        C
Because I’m all you’ve got
 
F, Am, Bb, C until end over...
 
go-ot, no...i'm all you go-ot, go-ot no, go-ot no...
 
 
 
ooo, that Conor eh?
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4 comments
extratallguy103
This is a dead on tab...until you get to the chorus.ITs obvious the chorus here sounds diff. Here's whats right in my book. Dm(x57765) C(x35553/x32010) F(133211) Bb(x13311) E(022100) Dm As they ask you, C F Are you who you say you are? Dm Bb F Are who you say that you are? Dm Bb C Are you who say that you are, you... F Dm Are you who you say that you are? Bb F E Bb(688766)just sounds better Are you who say you are? C The fact that we can't tell makes us like you even more Not to big a correction, but def. is more accurate.
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Creative-Noise
If you use extratallguy103's version of the chorus, this tab is 100% Congrats to the tabber and extratallguy.
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heyjoe1989
Here we are so many years later, and this song still holds a special place in my psyche.
+2