Gates chords by The Menzingers

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Gates - The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
Standard Tuning (EADGBe)
CAPO 2ND FRET
Arranged by Jack Cookson (Torn_Asunder)
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Chords used:

Mute/Don't play the strings marked with an 'x'

G   (320033)
C   (x32010)
D   (x00232)
Em  (022000)
Am  (x02210)
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Intro:

G Em C - this three times in arpeggios
THEN
G Em G D Em D C - strummed. listen for the changes!


Verse One:
G
I am the pain that bleeds through your temples

Every morning when you wake up
Em
I am the boy with alcohol poisoning
G
From all the parties Chris would throw

That summer that they took us in

Like every other American
Em
For getting drunk in back of the Lion's Club
G                                        D
Waiting for the shitty bands to finish up
                 Em              D
Then some kids played hacky sack
                           C
While the others just got high


Interlude: G Em G D Em D C


Verse 2:
G
It's not hard to fall for a waitress

When you both smoke

Smoke the same cigarettes
Em
You'll get seated as diners lovers
G
You'll get the check that Scranton's for the better
D                                 Em
You'll carve your names into the Parpat Cliffs
           D                  C
Just read them when you get old enough to know

That happiness is just a moment


Chorus x2:
    G                        C       G
So I'm marching up to your gates today
   Em               C
To throw my lonely soul away
      G
'Cause I don't need it
C         G       Em   C
You can take it back


Bridge:
     Am               C            G
And they will make examples out of us
                 D                          Em
Like when they caught you in the CVS parking lot
       C
But I fed the liars, I fed the liars, I fed the liars
G
Everything I got
Em
Everything I got
      C
in my cabinet brain
     G
Of canned thoughts
     G
Everything I've got
          Em
It was everything I've got
         C
In my cabinet brain, in my cabinet brain


Chorus x2:
   G                        C       G
So I'm marching up to your gates today
   Em               C
To throw my lonely soul away
      G
'Cause I don't need it
C         G       Em   C
You can take it back


Outro:
    G                        C       G
So I'm marching up to your gates today
   Em               C     G    C     G
To throw my lonely soul away


Em
Yeah I don't need it
C                    G
You can take it back