Matchbox 20 is a grrrreat band and has great tunes to jam along with. All their songs are pretty easy to play cuz even I can play them and even I can figure some of them out! Some of these are from other sites by other people so if they're wrong, don't blame me. =)
I want to eventually get tabs or chords for all of them. This is my first time doing stuff like this so help me out! Anything you want to see here or have to give me, just e-mail me!!
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Real World tab by JoAnn Chee
CAPO I!!
Intro: F#m, E (4x)
Verse 1:
A E F#m E (A E F#m E)
I wonder what it’s like to be the rainmaker
I wonder what it’s like to know that I make the rain
A E F#m E A E
I’d store it in boxes with little yellow tags on everyone
F#m E D
and you can come see them when I’m...done, when I’m done
Verse 2:
I wonder what it’s like to be a super hero
I wonder where I’d go if I could fly around downtown
from some other planet, I get this funky high on yellow sun
boy I bet my friends will all be...stunned, they’re stunned
Chorus:
A F#m E
straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
A D E
if I were someone else, would this all fall apart
A F#m E
strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
A F#m E D E D E…
I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me
Verse 3:
I wonder what it’s like to be the head honcho
I wonder what I’d do if they all did just what I said
I’d shout out an order, I think we’re out of this man get me some
boy don’t make me wanna change my...tone, my tone
Bridge:
F#m E A E
Please don’t change, please don’t break
F#m E A E
the only thing that seems to work at all is you
F#m E A E D E D…
please don’t change, at all from me to you, and you to me
SOLO is verse
Chorus
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Long Day tab by Thom Houston
TUNE DOWN HALF A STEP!!!!
Play quickly at beginning with fast strums
G
Its sitting by the overcoat
Am
the second shelf the note she wrote
F C G
that I can't bring myself to throw away
F
and also
G Am
reach she said for not one else but you
F
cuz you want turn away
C G
when someone else is gone
G
I'm sorry bout the attitude
Am
I need to give when I'm with you
F C
but no one else will take this shit
G
from me
F
and I'm so
G Am
terrified of no one else but me
F
I'm here all the time
C G
and I won't go away
G Am
mmm… its me,
F C G
yeah Well I can't get myself to go away
Am C
yeah, its me, yeah well I can't get myself to go away
oh god I shouldn't feel this way now
(chorus)
Am
reach down your hand in you pocket
F
pull out some hope for me
C G Am
its been a long day, always say ain’t that right
and, no Lord, your hand won't stop it
F
just keep you trembling
C G F
its been a long day, always ain't that right
VERSE 2
G
Well I'm surprised that you'd believe
Am
in anything that comes from me
F C G
I didn't hear from you or someone else
F
and you're so
G
set in life man, a pisser they're waiting
Am F
too damn bad you get so far so fast
C G
so what, so long
(Chorus)
Am
reach down your hand in your pocket
F
Pull out some hope for me
C G Am
its been a long day, always say aint that right
G e 3 Am e 0 C e x F e x
a 2 a 0 a 3 a 0
d 0 d 2 d 2 d 3
g 0 g 2 g 0 g 2
b 0 b 1 b 1 b 1
e 3 e 0 e 0 e 1
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3 AM
CAPO ON 1st FRET!! All tabs are relative to the capo!
Chords: G Cadd2 D Em
3 3 2 0
3 3 3 0
0 0 2 0
0 2 0 2
2 3 x 2
3 x x 0
(Intro)
G Cadd2 G Cadd2 (3X)
(1st Verse)
D Cadd2 G Cadd2 G Cadd2
she says its cold outside and hands me her raincoat
D Cadd2 G Cadd2 G Cadd2
she always worried about things like that
D Cadd2 G Cadd2 G Cadd2
she says it's all gonna end and it might as well be my fault
D Cadd2
and she only sleeps while it's raining
D Cadd2
and she screams and her voice is straining
(chorus)
G D Cadd2
she says baby
D G D Cadd2 D
it’s 3am I must be lonely
G D Cadd2
when she says baby
D Em D
well I can’t help but be scared of it all sometimes
C
says the rain's gonna wash away i believe it
G Cadd2 G Cadd2 (2x)
(2nd Verse)
she's got a little bit of something, god its better than nothing
and in her color portrait world she believes she's got it all
she swears the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to
and she only sleeps when it's raining
and she screams and her voice is straining
(chorus)
(3rd Verse)
she believes that life is made up of all that you're used to
and the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days
she thinks that happiness as mat that sits on her doorway
but outside it starts raining
(chorus)
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Push Tabbed by JoAnn Chee (me!)
TUNE DOWN HALF A STEP!!!!!
Intro: G, D/F#, Em7, C (x2)
G D/F# Em C
She said I don’t know if I've ever been good enough I'm a little bit rusty,
G D Em C
and I think my head is caving in.
G D Em C
and I don't know if I've ever been really loved by a hand that’s touched me,
G D Em C
and I feel like something’s gonna give and I'm a little bit angry
D C2 Em7 D
Well, this ain't over no not here not while I still need you around
C D
you don't owe me we’re not changing yeah we just might feel good.
Chorus:
G D Em7 C
I wanna push you around well I will well I will
G D Em7 C
I wanna push you down well I will well I will
Em Bm C D Em Bm C
I wanna take you for granted, I wanna take you for granted
D G,D,Em7,C
Yeah I will I will.
(VERSE 2)
She says I don’t know why you ever would lie to me
like I'm a little untrusting when I think that the truth is gonna hurt ya
and I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me
you couldn't stand to be near me
when my face don't seem to wanna shine cause it's a little bit dirty
Don't just stand there and say nice things to me
I've been cheated I've been wronged you,
you don't owe me yeah well I can't change I won't do anything at all.
(Chorus)
Em D C D Em
Well don't bowl me over just wait a minute well it kind of fell apart
D C D
things get so crazy, crazy
Em D C D Em D C D
don't rush this baby, don’t rush this baby, baby.
(Chorus)
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Kody Tabbed By Chad Gibson
This is a prelim version, but I'm pretty sure everything is here...mail me if you have any ideas
Capo on I!
G D Em C (x2)
VERSE 1
Em C
Kody sat down on the avenue
Em C
he tapped his feet to the humming of the highway
Em C
he watched the light shine down on the broken glass
G D Em
and thought- I don’t got no reasons, yet
C
there it is and there it was
Em C
it was clear to all of us
Em C
we kept this hat of broken dreams
G D Em G
and we pulled them out, when we needed them around
CHORUS:
G D Em C
so please hand me the bottle, I think I'm lonely now
G D C
and please give me direction, I think the hurt set in
C Em
And I don't feel nothin - yet
C Em C
(Between the Em and the C, they play the high end notes of a G)
VERSE 2
Em C
There’s a squeak hinge down on the back gate
it lets us know if he comes around
I don't sleep that good anyway
G D C
if you’ve never heard that silence, its a God-awful sound
CHORUS
C Em
I don't feel nothin, no I don't feel nothin
there’s nothing to feel good about here
Em C
Em C
don't much get down to the avenue
I could drive, but it takes so much to get there
don't get off on all the broken glass,
the cadillac scene. well
I've seen a lot of good things die and I'm in an
over emotional way
(Chorus)
End on C
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Hang Tabbed by JoAnn Chee (me!)
VERSE 1
G C
she grabs her magazines she packs her things and she goes
Em7 D
she leaves the pictures hanging on the wall,
G C
she burns all her notes and she knows,
G D C
she’s been here too few years to feel this old
VERSE 2
he smokes his cigarette, he stays outside ‘till it’s gone
if anybody ever had a heart,
he wouldn’t be alone he knows,
she’s been here too few years, to be gone
CHORUS
G D C G D C
and we al-ways say, it would be good to go away, someday
Em D
but if there’s nothing there to make things change
C
if it’s the same for you I’ll just hang
VERSE 3
the trouble understand, is she got reasons he don’t
funny how he couldn’t see at all,
‘til she grabbed up her coat and she goes,
she’s been here too few years to take it all in stride
but still it’s much too long,
to let hurt go (you let her go)
CHORUS
D
the same for you I’ll always hang…
well I always say, it would be good to go away
but if things don’t work out like we think
and there’s nothing there to ease this ache
but if there’s nothing there to make things change
if it’s the same for you, I’ll just hang
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