Elliott Smith - Big Problem Chords & Tabs

CAPO 5

F#m				D
The problem I have with the soul contraption
A		E		Bm
Swallowed up slowly like a bad reaction
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All around what you do and say
A		E		Bm
Well the symptom falls further away
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You live in silence but you can't describe it
A		E		Bm
So what's the point of talking at all?
F#m				D
The store bought injury.. the family cane
A		E		Bm
Just another boy bad at the game
F#m			D				A	E	Bm
This is when you need a friend to keep you moving around
F#m				D
'Cause all your thinking has made you slow
A		E		Bm
You might be stopping out.. you know

A                    F#m
Frustrated fireworks inside your head
F#m				D
There's a lit fuse smoking.. you caught instead
A                    F#m
What you're dealing.. but it's just a start
F#m				D
Was a time since your problem was a poison dart
A                    F#m
And you act like a cowboy.. whatever's in my hat
F#m				D
I'm a hardboiled hero and I'm not so bad
A                    F#m
But I didn't know when to run from this
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F#m				D
A proud fan is gonna see you shatter
A		E		Bm
I know that there really isn't anything the matter
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Nothing is gonna be crying words..
A		E		Bm
They only want their voice to be heard
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They use it sometimes to show that they're around
A		E		Bm
Or they build you up a theory like the walls of a town
F#m				D
A tired and ancient ruler right now..
A		E		Bm
The neighborhood slaves are hardly skilled

A                    F#m
Open your parachute and drop your weight
F#m				D
Float on down to the center and investigate
A                    F#m
I did my self requirement
F#m				D
Better cop out hard or I'll leave right now
A                    F#m
'Cause this feeling of loving I felt it in my chest
F#m				D
Like the nighttime footsteps of an unknown guest
A                    F#m
I know it wasn't me.. I wasn't moving..

F#m				D
I felt thunder.. the rain was pouring
A		E		Bm
I know it must be something wrong all this is restoring
F#m				D
You don't have to live in a life's mistake
A		E		A
Stay in the center and wait
A		E		A
Stay in the center and wait
A		E		Bm
Stay in the center and wait.