Tabs
Author/Artist: Steve Poltz
Title: Lockjaw
Album: Taking the World by Donkey
Transcribed by: Joe Dubberly
Email: [email protected]
Intro and Verses are played liked this.
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Verse:
look outside the sky is grey
And the clouds are filled with rain
It makes me jealous how it opens up and
I^Òm stuck inside again
I^Òm like a sitcom polyester family
Inside my t.v.
Pre Chorus:
C majorC D MajorD
I^Òm the boy in the bubble and you
G+G G/F# E minorEm
Can^Òt touch me
C majorC
I^Òll never open up
D MajorD
I^Òm never coming out and
Chorus:
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I fear every time when the government calls
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I^Òm absent hiding in my closet
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I feel like a news correspondent
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
Got lockjaw can^Òt tell you that I love you
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
Got lockjaw can^Òt tell you that I love you
Verse:
I stand in the mirror and I pull my hair out
I can^Òt control my thoughts
I wonder why my eyes are dry as a desert
My stomach^Òs tied in knots
Pre Chorus:
C majorC D MajorD
I^Òm like a freak show sitting on a sidewalk
G+G G/F# E minorEm
My outline drawn in chalk, yeah
C majorC D MajorD
I freeze every time I hear the phone ring
G+G G/F# E minorEm
I^Òll never hear you knock
C majorC
I^Òll never open up
D MajorD
I^Òm never coming out and
Chorus:
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I fear every time when the government calls
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I^Òm absent hiding in my closet
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I feel like a news correspondent
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
Got lockjaw can^Òt tell you that I love you
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
Got lockjaw can^Òt tell you that I love you
Verse:
I thumb through magazines to garner love facts
Cosmo^Òs got seven tips
I pick up the phone and I try to call you
No words just frozen lips, yeah
Pre Chorus:
C majorC D MajorD
I send a message, but you know it^Òs always cryptic
G+G G/F# E minorEm
No sound on my t.v. yeah
C majorC D MajorD
I^Òm the boy in the bubble and you
G+G G/F# E minorEm
Can^Òt touch me
C majorC
I^Òll never open up
D MajorD
I^Òm never coming out and
Chorus:
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I fear every time when the government calls
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I^Òm absent hiding in my closet
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
I feel like a news correspondent
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
Got lockjaw can^Òt tell you that I love you
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
Got lockjaw can^Òt tell you that I love you
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
Got lockjaw (can^Òt tell you that I love you)
G+G FF C majorC D MajorD
Got lockjaw (can^Òt tell you that I love you)
D MajorD End on G+G I would assume:)
I love you
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C majorC D MajorD G+G G/F# E minorEm FF You can also Play the FF like this for
picking
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