Tabs
Song: Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
Album: XO (1998)
Tabbed by Kevin Tracy
Standard Tuning
This is one of my favorite Elliott Smith songs, but there were no tabs for it on
UG so I figured it out myself. This is my first ever tab submission so go easy on me.
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Chords Used: Of course there's multiple ways to play these chords but these sound the best to me.
E minorEm 
Em6Em6 
C/EC/E 
G+G 
D/F#D/F# 
FF C/EC/E 
B7B7
e |----0----|----0----|----0----|----3----|---------|----1----|----0----|----2----||
BB |----0----|----2----|----1----|----3----|----3----|----1----|----1----|----4----||
G+G |----0----|----0----|----0----|----0----|----2----|----2----|----2----|----2----||
D MajorD |----2----|----2----|----2----|----0----|----0----|----3----|----0----|----4----||
A augmentedA |----2----|----4----|----3----|----2----|----0----|----3----|----3----|----2----||
E MajorE |----0----|----0----|----0----|----3----|----2----|----1----|----0----|---------||
B7/A B7/G B7/F# 
B7sus4B7sus4 
D7D7 
C minorCm
e |----2----|----2----|----2----|----x----|----5----|----3----|
BB |----4----|----4----|----4----|----5----|----7----|----4----|
G+G |----2----|----2----|----2----|----2----|----5----|----5----|
D MajorD |----4----|----4----|----4----|----4----|----7----|----5----|
A augmentedA |----0----|----x----|----x----|----2----|----5----|----3----|
E MajorE |---------|----3----|----2----|---------|---------|---------|
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INTRO: E minorEm
VERSE:
E minorEm Em6Em6 C/EC/E G+G D/F#D/F#
Everybody cares, everybody understands
FF 
C majorC B7-B7sus4-B7
Yes everybody cares about you
FF C majorC B7-B7sus4-B7
Yeah, and whether or not you want them to
E minorEm Em6Em6 C/EC/E G+G D/F#D/F#
It's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head
FF C majorC B7-B7sus4-B7
To a pure synthetic sympathy
FF C majorC B7-B7sus4-B7
that infuriates you totally
FF C majorC B7B7 B7/A B7/G B7/F#
And a quiet lie that makes you want to scream and shout
CHORUS:
G+G FF C majorC E minorEm [Riff A augmentedA]
So here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun
G+G FF C majorC E minorEm [Riff BB]
Raining its guiding light upon everyone
E minorEm Em6Em6 C/EC/E G+G D/F#D/F#
For a moment's rest you can lean against the banister
FF C majorC B7-B7sus4-B7
After running upstairs again and again
FF C majorC B7-B7sus4-B7
From wherever they came to fix you in, but
Riff A:
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------0----|
|--2---------------------------------2h4-2-2-------|
|--2------------------0--2---2-3-2-----------------|
|--0---0---2-2---3-3-------------------------------|
Riff B:
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------7--------------------------------------0---|
|---------7h9-----9--7-----7------------------------------|
|------10--------------10-------------------7h9-7-7-------|
|--------------------------------7-7h8--7-----------------|
VERSE:
E minorEm Em6Em6 C/EC/E G+G D/F#D/F#
Always fair city's finest follow right behind
FF C majorC B7-B7sus4-B7
You've got a pretty vision in your head
FF C majorC B7-B7sus4-B7
A augmentedA pencil full of poison lead
FF C majorC B7B7 B7/A B7/G B7/F#
And a sickened smile illegal in every town
CHORUS:
G+G FF C majorC E minorEm [Riff A augmentedA]
So here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun
G+G FF C majorC E minorEm [Riff BB]
Raining its guiding light upon everyone
G+G FF C majorC E minorEm [Riff A augmentedA]
Here I lay dreaming, looking at the brilliant sun
G+G FF C majorC E minorEm [Riff BB]
Raining its guiding light upon everyone
BRIDGE:
C majorC G+G
You say you mean well, you don't know what you mean
C minorCm D7D7 E minorEm
Fucking oughta stay the hell away from things you know nothing about
CODA:
My favorite part of the song. I'll tab out the main guitar part but there's a few
layers of guitar/keyboard so just jam out and mess around with a wah pedal or whatever if you can
First chords are the same as verse:
E minorEm Em6Em6 C/EC/E G+G D/F#D/F#
sweet guitar part at ~2:43
|-------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------|------------4------------|
|-----0h2-0---------|------4-----------4------|
|--3----------------|----4----4-----4-----4---|
|--3------------3---|-2-----------------------|
|--1----------------|-------------------------| x 2
Then 3:08:
|-------------------|---------------------------|
|-------------------|---------------------------|
|-----0h2-0---------|------4---------4----------|
|--3----------------|----4--------4-------------|
|--3------------3---|-2--------0----------------|
|--1----------------|---------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|---------4-----------4---|
|------4----------4-------|
|-------------------------|
|--3----------2-----------|
|------------------------|------------------2--------------|
|---------------------3--|------------------0--------------|
|------------------2-----|------------------2--------------|
|--------2------0--------|---2--------------1---2---4---5--|
|-----2------------------|---3---0---1---2-----------------|
|--0---------------------|---------------------------------|
Then the rhythm guitar goes a little something like this (3:17):
B7B7 G+G E minorEm D MajorD C majorC B7B7
|---2-------------------|---0---0-0------------------------------|
|---0-------------------|---0---0-0-----3-3-3--------------------|
|---2-------------------|---0---0-0-----2-2-2--------------2-----|
|---1----2--4------5----|---2---2-2-----0-0-0-----2--------1-----|
|---2-------------------|---2---2-2---------------3--0--1--2-----|
|-----------------------|---0------------------------------------|
And the last chord progression (3:40) is:
B7B7 B7/A B7/G B7/F# E minorEm D MajorD C majorC B7B7
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