Matthew Sweet - Not When I Need It Chords & Tabs

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"Not When I Need It" (Version 1)

From: Jake Jaffe


-Verse-:

D                 Edim     Bm
Look at you you're just as blind
A         G                G/F#     Em    A
Trying to grab your little piece of mind
        Bm      A       E
And you want to hold it near
              A         E
But you know you can't keep it
D            Edim       Bm
Say a little should suffice
A               G          G/F#      Em     A
But more than a little of you is so nice
        Bm      A      E
And you give me what I want


-Chorus-
           D                   A
Not when I need it (not when I need it)
           Bm       A          E
Not when I need it (not when I need it)
       D               A
Well I find it all the time
                D        A
But Not when I need it


-Verse (chords same as 1st half of 1st verse above)-

No two days are quite the same
I look at me life I really can't complain
And you come so easily


-chorus-

           D                   A
Not when I need it (not when I need it)
           Bm       A          E
Not when I need it (not when I need it)
       D               A
Well I find it all the time
            D-----------
Not when I need it


-bridge-
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/matthew_sweet/not_when_i_need_it_tab.html ]
Bm            A       G
The feeling's getting out of hand
Bm          A        E
But I can't have you on demand
G                    A
I can hang onto a dream
D        Edim       Bm  (solo over verse chords)
But I can't hold it


-verse (chords as before)-

Late at night I'm filled with fear
That I can't take for granted that you'll
Always be near
And it makes me hate myself


-chorus-


           D                   A
To think I can't see it (not when I need it)
           Bm       A          E
Not when I need it (not when I need it)
       D               A
Well I find it all the time
            Bm      A          E
Not when I need it (not when I need it)
       D               D
Well I find it all the time
            D      Edim Bm A G G/F# Em A Bm A E
Not when I need it


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"Not When I Need It"

transcribed by kevin gardner code@wam.umd.edu


h = hammer on
p = pull off

verse

D             A         Bm           Bm/A
-----0h2p0---------0--------------------------|
-------------------2----------2h3---------3---|
---2-------2-----2----------4-----4---------4-|
-0-------------2----------4-------------4-----|
---------------------0--2-------------0-------|
----------------------------------------------|


G         G/F#    E
-----3--------3-------0-------|
-------3-------3--------0-3-2-|
---0--------0-------------2-2-|
---0--------0-------2---------|
------------------------------|
-3--------2-------0-----------|


Bm           Bm/A      E
------------------------------0-----------|
-------2h3---------3------------0---------|
-----4-----4---------4------------1-------|
---4-------------4----------2-------2-----|
-2-------------0----------2-----------2---|
------------------------0-----------------|

D
-----0h2p0------------------------|
-----------3------------2-2-3-5-2-|
---2---------2---2------2---------|
-0-------------0------2-----------|
--------------------0-------------|
----------------------------------|