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Author/Artist: Steve Poltz
Title: Lockjaw
Album: Taking the World by Donkey
Transcribed by: Joe Dubberly
Email: joedubberly@hotmail.com
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’m stuck inside again
I’m like a sitcom polyester family
Inside my t.v.
Pre Chorus:
C D
I’m the boy in the bubble and you
G G/F# Em
Can’t touch me
C
I’ll never open up
D
I’m never coming out and
Chorus:
G F C D
I fear every time when the government calls
G F C D
I’m absent hiding in my closet
G F C D
I feel like a news correspondent
G F C D
Got lockjaw can’t tell you that I love you
G F C D
Got lockjaw can’t tell you that I love you
Verse:
I stand in the mirror and I pull my hair out
I can’t control my thoughts
I wonder why my eyes are dry as a desert
My stomach’s tied in knots
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/poltz_steve/lockjaw_crd.html ]
Pre Chorus:
C D
I’m like a freak show sitting on a sidewalk
G G/F# Em
My outline drawn in chalk, yeah
C D
I freeze every time I hear the phone ring
G G/F# Em
I’ll never hear you knock
C
I’ll never open up
D
I’m never coming out and
Chorus:
G F C D
I fear every time when the government calls
G F C D
I’m absent hiding in my closet
G F C D
I feel like a news correspondent
G F C D
Got lockjaw can’t tell you that I love you
G F C D
Got lockjaw can’t tell you that I love you
Verse:
I thumb through magazines to garner love facts
Cosmo’s got seven tips
I pick up the phone and I try to call you
No words just frozen lips, yeah
Pre Chorus:
C D
I send a message, but you know it’s always cryptic
G G/F# Em
No sound on my t.v. yeah
C D
I’m the boy in the bubble and you
G G/F# Em
Can’t touch me
C
I’ll never open up
D
I’m never coming out and
Chorus:
G F C D
I fear every time when the government calls
G F C D
I’m absent hiding in my closet
G F C D
I feel like a news correspondent
G F C D
Got lockjaw can’t tell you that I love you
G F C D
Got lockjaw can’t tell you that I love you
G F C D
Got lockjaw (can’t tell you that I love you)
G F C D
Got lockjaw (can’t tell you that I love you)
D End on G I would assume:)
I love you
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C D G G/F# Em F You can also Play the F like this for picking
