I'm Writing A Novel bass tab by Father John Misty

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

Intro:

I ran down the road, pants down to my knees,
screaming please come help me
that Canadian shaman gave a little too much to me

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  and I'm writing a novel
cause it's never been done before

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Verse 1:

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   First house that I saw, I wrote house up on the door,

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  and told the people who lived there they have to get out

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  cause my reality is realer than yours

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  Yeah, there's no time in the present
and there's a black dog on the

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   bed

Verse 2:

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  I went to the backyard, to burn my only clothes,

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  and then the dog ran out, he said you can't turn nothing

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  into nothing this would be no more,

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  well I'm no doctor
but that monkey might be right

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  and if he is
I'll be walking him my whole

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   life

Verse 3:

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   I rode to Malibu, on a dune buggy with Neil,

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   he said you're gonna have to drive me down on the beach

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   if you ever wanna write for real


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   and I said I'm sorry
young man what was your name again?


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Verse 4:

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  Now, everywhere I go in West Hollywood,

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  it's filled with people pretending they don't see the actress

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  and the actress wishing that they could

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we could do ayahuasca
baby if I wasn't holding all these

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   drinks

Verse 5:

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  Something bout the way, Violet whips her hair makes me empty my pockets,

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  on the corner to corner, bumming twenties as if I was the mayor

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  I don't need any new friends
but I could really use something to

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    do

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  so if you're up for it sometime
I swear you wouldn't have to be my

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   muse

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Outro:

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  Heidegger and Sartre, drinking poppy tea, I could have sworn last night

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  I passed out in my van and now these guys are pouring one for me

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  I'll never leave the canyon
cause I'm surrounded on all

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  sides

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 by people writing novels
and living on amusement

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   rides

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| (n) Ghost note
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