🎸 Chekhovs Hangnail chords by Martha

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

This riff is played at various points (or replace with the chords):
  C             D5     F
e|--------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|-----------7--9-----------|-------------10-10-10--10-10-10--|
D|--10-------9--10--10-10---|--12--12\10--10-10-10--10-10-10--|
A|--10--------------8--8----|--12--12\10--8--8--8---8--8--8---|
E|--8---3h5-----------------|--10--10\8-----------------------|


Intro:
C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5
Riff

Verse 1:
   Riff
Well, I've never been any good at poetry
  Riff
And I stumble over words from time to time
  Riff
But tempted by a hangnail, I once flayed my middle finger
     Riff
Butchered cuticles stain the page like wine
     D5             F
Count the digits, how unsuitable are mine?


Chorus:
    C  F C    D5       F
When it rains, well, it really fucking pours
      C  F C     D5         F
And we made waves, but did my screaming drown out yours?
      C F C D5     F
Now here we are, mixing metaphors
        C         F      C
And sometimes, it might seem that we lost the battle
    D5       F
But if no one wins the war, then, why keep score?

C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5


Verse 2:
C
Everything is mediocre, I'm bored and nothing satisfies
F
An existential crisis mix-tape on repeat until I die
C
Left decomposing on the floor, this routine's awful for my posture
F
Looking 'round for something more, sure that I'd lost you


Chorus:
    Riff
When it rains, well, it really fucking pours
      Riff
And we made waves, but did my screaming drown out yours?
      C   D5     F
Now here we are, mixing metaphors
        C
And sometimes, it might seem that we lost the battle
    D5       F          C
But if no one wins the war, then, why keep score?


Outro:
C
It might seem that we lost the battle
It might seem that we lost the battle, yeah
F
It might seem that we lost the battle
It might seem that we lost the battle, yeah
C
It might seem that we lost the battle
It might seem that we lost the battle, yeah
F
It might seem that we lost the battle
It might seem that we lost the battle, yeah
Am
It might seem that we lost the battle
It might seem that we lost the battle, yeah
F
It might seem that we lost the battle
But if no one wins the war, then, why keep score?

C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5
C5 F5 A5 F5
C5