"Heartilation"
Off of their new album, Can't Maintain. Pretty simple.
Artist: Andrew Jackson Jihad
Album: Can't Maintain
Year: 2009
Label: Asian Man
Tuning: Standard
Intro (First two times muted):
C - F - C - C (muted, hit F twice, quickly)
C - F - C - F - C - F - C - C (hit F twice, quickly)
C
I wanna break apart my heart
Am
Glue the pieces to my car
F
Crash it into a wall
G
I don't wanna feel at all
C
Wanna break apart my heart
C
Douse it in gasoline
Am
Til the fire burns clean
F
Then flick a cigarette
G
Like that movie Con Air
C
Doused in gasoline
F G
And if you think
C Am
You are better than me, you're right
F (short strokes)
There's no one to love
G (short strokes)
There's no one to trust
C F C F
In my life.
C
I want to pick up the pieces
Am
And plant them in the ground
F G C - F - C (done quickly)
When a tree grows there I want to chop that tree down
C
Build it into a boat
Am
And float it in a lake
F G C
And with dynamite I will explode the thing that makes me make mistakes
F G
And if you think
C Am
You are better than me, you're right
F (short strokes)
There's no one to love
G (short strokes)
There's no one to trust
C F C F
In my life.
F G C - F - C
Sometimes I get so lonesome I can't breath
F G C - B - Am
Sometimes I get so scared that I can't speak
F G C Am
Sometimes I get so worried I can't hear my heartbeat
F
Anyway
Fm
Anyway
C - F - C - F - C - F - C - C
C
I wanna tear out my heart
Am
And give it away
F G C
To a person more deserving one day
C
If all I see
Am
Is the worst in everything
F (quick strokes)
That's all I'm gonna get
G (quick stroke)
That's all I'm gonna get
C
That's all I'm gonna get
F G
And if you think
C Am
You are better than me, you're right
F (short strokes)
There's no one to love
G (short strokes)
There's no one to trust
Am
In my life.
F (short strokes)
There's no one to love
G (short strokes)
There's no one to trust
Am
In my life.
F (short strokes)
No one to love
G (short strokes)
There's no one to trust
C
In my life.
"Self Esteem"
Song: Self Esteem
Band: Andrew Jackson Jihad
Album: Can't Maintain
Tabber: TorrentSurvivor(aka Manowar313)
C F
This place is taking all my self-esteem
C F
And everybody is afraid of me
Am Em C F
And I can't make eye contact with anyone I see
C G C
This place is taking all my self-esteem
C F
And everybody is afraid of me
C F
And I'm afraid to go out in the streets
Am Em C F
Reminders of my failures everywhere that I will be
C G C
Everybody is afraid of me
Am G F G
And people freak me out
Am G F G
People make me scared
Am G F G
People make me so damn self-aware
C
C F
I get bronchitis twice a year at least
C F
My lungs aren't the way that they should be
Am Em C F
And I smoke more than a motherfucking chimney
C G C
I declare war on my body
C F
And I'm a liar and I am a thief
C F
Taking things from those better than me
Am Em C F
Pathetic little man with some pathetic little dream
C G C
I hope you all can forgive me
"Love in the Time of Human Papillomavirus"
Am G C Am
F G Am
C Am
F G Am
C Am F G
You will cough up crows that peck my eyes
C Am F G
And I will do nothing but go blind
Am
But my heart
G
It has eyes
C
And my love
F
It has sight
Am G
Even though it may be
C F
A little cloudy
Am G C Am
F G Am
C Am
F G Am
C Am F G
And you will break my back for all the burdens I lay upon it
C Am F G
But I will never blame you for those bees inside this bonnet
Am G
And my lungs will grow cancers
C F
And my back it will grow achy
Am G
I will buy us an acre
C F
Of some land in the city
Am G
We could live there together
C F
Or I'll live alone less happy
Am
But I'll live
G
Unfortunately
Am G C Am
F G Am C
"Evil"
C
C C/B Am F C
No one will know how evil I really am
No one will know how evil I really am
F G
Cause I like to wear disguises
Am
And I like to disguise my plans
F G C
No one will know how evil I really am
C C/B Am F C
And no one will know truly how I feel
C C/B Am F C
And no one will know how I truly feel
F G
Cause I can no longer differentiate
Am F
Between what is fake and what is real
G C E7
I don't know how I feel
F G C-C/B-Am-G F G C
C C/B Am F C
I was born in a hospital
C C/B Am F C
My first two days were spent in the care of nuns
F G
But my mother found it in her
Am
To go ahead and take me back
F G C E7
And I love her
F G C-C/B-Am-G F G C
C C/B Am F C
And I will always appreciate bad days like this
C C/B Am F C
Because they grant me a point of reference in regards to my happiness
F G
And although I feel cold and empty one day
Am
I hope I can feel warm and full
F G C E7
Stand with honor, and comfort, and dignity
F G C-C/B-Am-G F G C
"You Don't Deserve Yourself"
C
I will take your teeth
Am G
But I'll hold out for a while
C
If you please
C
I'll make you fall asleep
Am G C
Even if you're not tired
C
Am G
You don't deserve yourself
C
And I will make you bleed
Am G
From your mouth and your nose
C
And your eyes
C Am G C
Your blood will taste so sweet eeee eeee eeeet
C
Am G
You don't deserve yourself
Am G
You don't deserve yourself
C(hold)
And I have seen
Am G C
The darkest heart of humanity
C(hold)
And I truly believe
Am G C
That we are capable of good as well
Am G
You don't deserve yourself
Am G
You don't deserve yourself
Am G C
You don't deserve yourself
Am G
And you need to love yourself
Am G
You need to love yourself
Am G C
You need to love yourself
"Olde(y) Tyme(y)"
Intro/Trombone solo: C Am F G F G C Cmaj7 Am F G C Am C C Am C
(listen to song for timing, its kinda hard to describe)
C Am F G
I've had a bad day, I am ashamed, And I'm afraid
F G C Cmaj7 Am F G C Am C C Am C
And I am drained of what was named self-respect
C
If the bridge that I was driving over
Am F
Collapsed while I was driving over it
G
That may not be such a bad thing
F G
I would finally meet my maker
C Cmaj7 Am
I could meet the great creator
F G C Am C C Am C
And I'd punch him for teaching me how to sing
C
And my body would be at the bottom
Am
Of a lake in West Virginia
F G
Instead of the bottom of this bottle that I drink
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F G
I don't have a drinking problem
C Cmaj7 Am
Don't have a drinking solution
F G C Am C C Am C
I don't think I ever learned to think
C
And no one knows
Am
What it's like to be
F G
Anybody but themselves
F G
No one
C Cmaj7 Am
No-o one
F G C Am C C Am C
No-o one else
(Thank you)
"Kazoo Sonata in C Maj"
buy a kazoo, hum along. no guitar whatsoever.
"We Didn't Come Here To Rock"
yet another simple AJJ song with their favorite chords...
C GC
C
We didn't come here to rock
G
We only came to disappoint you
Am
Cause deep down in your cunt
F G
That's exactly what you wanted us to do
C
You wanted us to lead you on
G
You wanted us to bum you out
Am
So you could build us up
F
And you could knock us down
F G Am C
If that's what gets your dick hard
F G ( C, G, Am, F )
Telling people they're bad at making art
C
You wanted to feel cheated
G
I guess we gave you what you needed
Am
So you're welcome
F G
Don't worry about it
C
Just stay on the couch
G
Judge whatever people do
Am
Don't do anything for yourself
F G
I'd hate to see it happen to you
F G Am C
If that's what gets your dick hard
F G Am
Telling people they're bad at making art
F G Am C
Feeling just like you're the one in charge
F G C
Pissing on my most pathetic parts
"Truckers are the Blood"
G C Em D
G C Em D
G
Don't know if I believe in god
C
But sometimes I pray
Em
Because the way I was raised
D
Keeps me afraid
G C
A scientist that has to have his way
Em D
I subsist of a steady diet of shame
C Em G
I hope I can forgive me
C Em D
For having the nerve to exist
C Em G
I hope someone can help me
C Em G
Make some sense of this
G
I work a ten hour grave
C
From nine to seven
Em
And I can't fall asleep
D
Until eleven past eleven
G
There's no drug that I can take
C
That will keep me from being awake
Em D
Past my, past my bedtime
G C
Truckers are the blood in the veins of the body of America
Em D
States are the arms and the legs and the brains and the eyes
G C
There's a disease spreading from organ to organ
Em D
And you are the white blood cell that fixes the problem
C Em G
You don't know your own power
C Em D
You don't know what you're worth
C Em G
You don't recognize your valor
C D
And until you do, nothing you do will matter
G C Em D
G C Em D
"Love Will Fuck Us Apart"
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Love Will Fuck us Apart
From The Album: Can’t Maintain
Tabbed By: Adam Cornblatt (Tortillamaster)
G
G D
You and me
G (Start Bass Walk)
Go together like carrots and peas
C
We should be a happy family
G
Or a traveling travesty, at least
D
And love
C
Will fuck us up
G
Love will fuck us up
G D
Breath in deep
G
Breath as deeply as you can breath
C
Breath deep til you're drunk will glee
G
Breath deep til you're drunk with glee
D
And love
C
Will fuck us up
G
Love will fuck us up
(Instrumental with verse chords)
End on G
"Sense, Sensibility"
amazing song, amazing band. email me with questions, corrections, or life views.
in the chorus, the progression between G and Em has another chord in between, but I'm
taught, so I don't know what it's called.
G ? Em
e|-3--3--0--|
b|-0--0--0--|
g|-0--0--0--|
d|-0--0--2--|
a|-2--0--2--|
e|-3--2--0--|
G Am
earnesty and clarity, those wonderful mentalities
D C G
of decent positivity are all that we can scribe
Am
but misery and poverty they follow me and my family
D C G
and though it seems that i can't win, i think i have to try
Am
everyone's afraid of me, they'll never see that we all leave
D C G
the same damn blood each night
Am C G ? Em
so you'll go your way and i'll go mine
C D G
i hope we meet later on down the line
Am
sense and sensibility and peaceful productivity
D C G
a pretty girl with broken wings is all that i desire
Am
but there's so much hostility in all the things surrounding me
D C G
the awful blow of enmity is trying to stop me shine
Am
so i try to look inwardly at all the things inside of me
D C G
but sodomy and buggery keep bubbling to the top
Am C G ? Em
so you'll go forward and i'll go back
C D G
i hope we catch up with each other on the track
Am D C G
Am
and i've been thinking awkwardly about the things that are holy
D C G
like Jesus, Joseph, and Mary and Mary Magdalene
Am
and even theoretically i don't think i could ever see
D C G
the perfect human being Jesus lived without sin
Am C G ? Em
so you'll go upward and i'll go down
Am C G ? Em
you'll go upward and i'll go down
Am C G ? Em
you'll go upward and i'll go down
C D G
i'll see you in hell when we die
"Who Are You?"
Artist: Andrew Jackson Jihad
Song: Who are you?
Album: Can't Maintain
Listen to the song for strumming. Oh yea not sure if this makes sense
but at the end of the intro you do some pinky thing with the D chord
then repeat chorus. Also all the chords are in the right places so listen
to the song!!!!!
Intro: G/A/C/A/C/A/C/D
Who are you?
G A
And where did you go?
C A
And where are you from?
C A
And what do you know?
C D
You're in my blood
G A
And you're in my hair
C A
You're in my heart
C A
And you're in the air
C D
CHORUS: LA DA DA PART- A/G 2x
I met you once over the phone
G A C A
You sounded sad and you seemed alone
C A C D
You left me but I never left you
G A C A C
I never had the chance to
A C D
CHORUS: LA DA DA PART A/G 2x
Music was the one thing
A
We would have had in common
G
You were my age when I was born
A E
Would I have done what you did?
A
Would I do what you have done?
G
I like to think I'm a bigger man than that
A D
INTRO: G/A/C/A/C/A/C/D 2x
You had some problems with alcohol
G A C A
You took 12 steps and you solved them all
C A C D
It took 16 years for you to call
G A C A
What gave you the brave to pick up that ball?
C A C D
CHORUS: LA DA DA PART A/G 2x
You played the trumpet and the drums
A G
While my mom sang at funerals
A E
I play guitar til my hands are numb
A G
You two are where music comes from, for me
A D
INTRO: G/A/C/A/C/A/C/D 2x
So thank you so much for not raising me
G A C A C
You spent your life on better things
A C D
And you would have been an awful dad
G A C A C
Thank you though for those genes you had
A C C
CHORUS: LA DA DA DA PART 1x
There it is please feel free to criticize, talk shit, etc etc
but if there's something wrong you are obligated to post corrections
thanks and peace out
"White Face, Black Eyes"
C Am
They had a white face they had black eyes
F Fm C G
they had burns all over their bodies they had love for my revulsion
Am Fm
and they kissed away my repulsion
C G Am
they had a white face and black eyes
F G
C Am
Their father came from across the sea
F Fm C G
to rescue to rescue to rescue me
Am F
he said if you spend all your heart on something that has died
C G G7
you are not alive that cant be your life
Am Fm
love what you can love what you can til it dies
C G
and let it lie let it fly away
Am F Fm
love what you can love what you can til it dies
C G Fm
and let it lie let it fly away
Am F C G Am F C G
C Am
He had a white face he had black eyes
F Fm C
he had burns all over his body and he was right.
THE END! Tab compilation put together by OLLIE868686
