Dog Problems

TABS BY BRANDON KARCIC UNLESS OTHERWISE CREDITED

This is one of my favorite albums, and I've been wishing there was more of it on UG so that

the whole world could learn it and play it and love it. So I went through the whole album,

wrote chords for what was missing, and revamped all of the chord sheets that already existed.

I hope you hardcore Format fans enjoy this one a lot.

Credit goes to several people whose tabs I borrowed or improved for this.

-Pick Me Up :: Don Tago (recebedou@yahoo.com)

-Snails :: azimuth457 (azimuth457@gmail.com)

-The Compromise :: andyp2345

-Inches and Falling :: Sephythrox (Sephythrox@aol.com)

If you find any mistakes or would like to suggest any revisions, email me:

bkmusic87@gmail.com

Song: "Matches"/"I'm Actual" (Tracks 1 & 2)

Tabbed by: Brandon Karcic

Chords

-C-|-C/B-|-Am-|-Fmaj7-|-D7-|

Intro:

Ashes to ashes, some dust on the dash

I got my cigarettes

But I can't find the fire, it's calming me down

I was just out on a night with my friends

You are still out on a night with your frienda

And you don't seem to tire when I'm not around

I'm under the tunnel, I'm holding my breath

I searched every pocket that hung in the closet

Until I found some matches in a brown leather jacket

One I swore I'd never worn, but it once kept you warm

Do you remember we made love on the floor?

And you still haven't called

So I wait until they're closing the bars

G F C (Let this one ring)

I made a wish but the match never lit

(That's the end of "Matches", then starts "I'm Actual")

Can we take the next hour

and talk about me

Talk about me, and we'll talk about me

Talk about me, and we'll only talk about me

Can we please take this hour

and talk about me

and my hatred for corporate magazines

you know they don't speak to me

The irony is they won't speak with me

(I'm Actual, I'm Actual...)

VERSE 2

I placed you on a windowsill

Cut notches up and down the door

My surprise, I woke up one morn

In our bed, In your place lay a note; It read:

(The next part uses simple bar chord shapes, like so.)

----A----Ab/A---G-----F#-G-------

Baby your love it just ain't good enough

I found sunlight six hours away

Am Ab/A G F#/G (let ring)

You watered me down 'til I drifted abound

Somewhere far from your shade

Now I shadow my former self

Once holy, now lonely; a chest full of

holes; Red wax, it paints me unclear

when the big hand strikes twelve

C (let ring)

I disappear

and the angels are fake and they'll lie to your face

Anything to keep you away

You watered me down 'til I drifted abound

SOLO SECTION

It's time I accept the fact

That you on your back has buried the past

Can we take the next hour

and talk about me

Talk about me, and we'll talk about me

Talk about me, and we'll only talk about me

Can we please take this hour

and talk about me

and my hatred for corporate magazines

you know they don't speak to me

F G G Am C/B C (let the last chord ring!)

The irony is they won't speak with me

Song : Time Bomb (Track 3)

Tabbed By: Brandon Karcic

INTRO

Oh no, was it worth it?

VERSE piano part, which I play on guitar like this:

...G....G.Am...Am.C/B..C/B.C.C/B.Am.G

B|-0----0--1----1--1----1--1--1--1-o|

A|-2----2--0----0--2----2--3--2--0-o|

...F....F..G....G..Am..Am.C/B.Am.G

B|-1----1--0----0--1----1--1--1--0-o|

A|-3----3--2----2--0----0--2--0--2-o|

Starting now I'm starting over

I'm gonna sleep

with the next person I meet

Starting now I'm starting over

You swore "together forever" Now

you're telling lies, Tell me your worst

They've got

no

They've got

no concept of time

CHORUS

Tick tock, you're not a clock

You're a time bomb baby

A time bomb baby oh

Song: She Doesn't Get It (Track 4)

Tabbed By: Brandon Karcic

CAPO 4

INTRO & VERSE 1

All the girls pose for the same for pictures

All the boys got the same girls' hair

And I am bored because I feel much older

Look at me as if I got a reason to stare

PRECHORUS

But you talk so loud

That it calms me down, you're crying

Let's make a toast

CHORUS

She says she's leaving on a Sunday

Oh, that leaves me one more night

Can I take you home?

I know it's wrong, but I know your type

She says she's leaving on a Sunday

I don't care, I need to know where to turn

I tried it once

It never caught on, I was the only one who got burned

VERSE 2

I've read every word you've said

From a poster of a cat

Four books look across your sofa

C C/B Hold Am

I thought your coffee table was more clever than that

It gets worse once we get to her room

She stops and she sings, "Do do do do do do do do"

I claim "New Religion" is my song

She doesn't get it, it's all before she was born

PRECHORUS 2

And you lock your door

Like I've been here before I feel like

I've seen a ghost

CHORUS 2

She says she's leaving on a Sunday

Oh, that leaves me one more night

Can I take you home?

I know it's wrong, but I know your type

She says she's leaving on a Sunday

I don't care, I need to know where to turn

I tried it once

It never caught on, I was the only one who got burned

I was the only one who got burned

BRIDGE

Suddenly between sheets and eyelids

I am reminded why I don't do this

I fall in love far too quickly

I never want her to forget me

When you're gone

Will you call, will you write?

CHORUS 3, 4, & 5

She says she's leaving on a Sunday

Oh, that leaves me one more night

Can I take you home?

I know it's wrong, but I know your type

She says she's leaving on a Sunday

Oh, that leaves me one more night

Can I take you home?

I know it's wrong, but I know your type

She says she's leaving on a Sunday

I don't care, I need to know where to turn

I tried it once

It never caught on, I was the only one who got burned

I was the only one who got burned

I was the only one who got burned

I was the only one who got burned

C Hold

Song: Pick Me Up(Track 5)

Originally Tabbed by: Don Tago (recebedou@yahoo.com)

Edited and reformatted by: Brandon Karcic

Almost exactly the same as the previous tab, but I added the ambient chords over

the intro and included the backing vocal lyrics on the third and fifth choruses.

INTRO

And you, you're gonna walk backwards through the room

Does that mean I won't see you?

It means you'll walk backwards through the room

VERSE 1

Tiffany's crying, she's dying to make it out of this hell

Well I just laughed ‘cause it was my job to be her help

I'm in my bedroom, I found me a corner where friends won't debate my health

Like "How can he save some summer night when he can’t save himself?"

CHORUS 1

You gotta pick me up, come on and pick me

When I'm falling down you've got to pick me up

VERSE 2

Cut to December and how can a scalpel tear him to skin

Reveal the walks in the park, Lord, how can a heart come from two separate organs?

Are you gonna make this simple? Do you wanna make me sweet?

Oh, well I know I know I know I know I let you down, I let you down

CHORUS 2 & 3

You gotta pick me up, come on and pick me

When I'm falling down you've got to pick me up

Prescriptions scripting a timeline

Swing sets, grade schools, and black eyes

First love, heartbreak and true love

Mistakes, heartbreak and true love

VERSE 3

You, You're gonna walk backwards through the room

Does that mean I won't see you? It means you walk backwards through the room

Are you gonna make this simple? Do you wanna make me sweet?

Oh, well I know I know I know I know I let you down, I let you down

CHORUS 2 & 3

You gotta pick me up, come on and pick me

When I'm falling down you've got to pick me up

Prescriptions scripting a timeline

Swing sets, grade schools, and black eyes

First love, heartbreak and true love

Mistakes, heartbreak and true love

Song: Dog Problems (Track 6)

Tabbed By: An unregistered UG user who did a fantastic job

Edited and Reformatted By: Brandon Karcic

Almost entirely the same as the previous chords, save for the very beginning and a

couple G7s that can really just be played as Gs.

PART ONE - THE BEGINNING

Don't you dare speak for someone you don't know.

They'll feel it in the back of their throat.

We know I can't construct a poem,

Cause words like girls get bored and run

C'est la vie, I say "I've got so many better things"

I've got nothing, you should see me,

I smoke myself to sleep.

And blame postmodern things I can't relate, like summer camp and coastal states.

Like alcohol and coffee beans; Dance floors and magazines.

I think its safe to say I've only got myself to blame

But boys in swooping haircuts are bringing me down, taking pictures of themselves.

INTERLUDE - HORNS GALORE

PART 2 - FINDING FLAWS IN EVERYONE

And so I walk the web in search of love, but always seem to end up stuck.

I'm finding flaws in everyone, I've reached the point where all I want

Is to sleep around in hopes that I will catch back up.

We are parallel lines, we’re running in circles, We're never meant to cross.

I'm at a loss, you were my tangerine, my pussycat, my trampoline.

Now alls I get are wincing cheeks and dog problems, I signed a lease.

Thinking my heart belonged at 93rd and Park.

Instead I broke a girl’s heart, and flew back to Phoenix

To finish the year as it started.

PART 3 - THE PART WHERE NATE RUESS BREAKS YOUR HEART, OR 'WAS IT WORTH IT WHEN YOU

SLEPT WITH HIM?'

Can you hear me? Are you listening? This is the sound of my heart breaking.

And I hope it's entertaining, Cause for me it’s a bitch

Was it worth it when you slept with him?

Did you get it all out of your system?

I am a man, Holding it all,

I couldn’t breath, Coming across

I didn’t know I couldn’t give up

PART 4 - IS HE SPELLING 'BECAUSE,' OR 'BECCA'?

B is for believing you'd always be here for me.

E is for everything, even when we see it though.

C, c is for seeing through you, you are a fake, which brings me

To A because, because, you always run away.

I never finish phrases, I misspell, Open arms are prison cells.

When I said, "I hate what I've become," I lied, I hated who I was.

So when you start to wonder 'bout the pain in my throat,

Then don't you ever, no never, ever, speak for someone you don't know.

Song: Oceans (Track 7)

Tabbed by: Brandon Karcic

CAPO 4

INTRO & VERSE 1

Oh, You've got

Flaws that you wont admit

Yet you tell me its a sin that I don't believe in

God; You traded in your cross

For a chance to dance with stars and now nothing is sacred

PRECHORUS 1

Oooooooo, I've given thought to leaving

Oooooooo, F-F-F-for some

Time (Ooo) If only I could read a

Map; My moat is New Mexico so it's you I wrote

CHORUS 1

I started sending you a note

On how I hope that you're happy

I hear you're somewhere in the sand

And how I wish I was an ocean

Maybe then (maybe then) I'd get to see you again

VERSE 2

Now all my friends

They break and they bend

They take shape and they tend

To get better with time, And I say:

"Who am I to work so much less to get more?

You all deserve what I am walking towards

If you want, you should move away,"

PRECHORUS 2

Ooooo, This has become a weakness

Ooooo, The golden state wins

again (Ooooo) Perhaps it's time I settle down

Say its blue, at least that's a plus, Plus, I miss you so much

CHORUS 2

I started sending you a note

On how I hope that you're happy

I hear you're somewhere in the sand

And how I wish I was an ocean

Oh noooo

On how I hope that you're happy

I hear you're somewhere in the sand

And how I wish I was an ocean

Maybe then (maybe then) I'd get to see you

again

BRIDGE

A Throughout

Why am I scared of people in a room?

Why can't they see a good time are the people close to you?

Why don't I just give in, have a drink and shake some hands?

Oh ay oh, Oh ay oh

Why am I scarred from what she did to me?

Why can't I trust anyone, no, not even me?

why don't I just give in, have a drink and shake some hands?

Oh ay oh, Oh ay oh

PRECHORUS 3

Oooooooo, I've given thought to leaving

Oooooooo, F-F-F-for some

Time (Ooo) Maybe it's time I put a

Profile up of who I want to be

Fool everyone, just to start over clean

I can hide behind a big blue screen

Or you can return to me (Return to me...)

CHORUS 3

Oooooh

How I hope that you're happy

I hear you're somewhere in the sand

And how I wish I was an ocean

Oh noooo

Now I hope that you're happy

I hear you're somewhere in the sand

And how I wish I was an ocean

Maybe then (maybe then) I'd get to see you

again

I'd get to see you again

I'd get to see you again

I'd get to see you again

OUTRO

Why am I scared of people in a room?

Why can't they see a good time are the people close to you?

Why don't I just give in, have a drink and shake some hands?

Oh ay oh, Oh ay oh

Song: Dead End (Track 8)

Tabbed by: Brandon Karcic

VERSE 1

Hold on, there's a hole in my heart

Everyone can see right through me

(Em) F

It goes all the way to the waves

Where my love she tried to wash it away

See we break for the summers so she can find lovers

She thinks that they're bottles of wine

(Em) F

They make you dinner and they sing you to sleep

But by the morning find the bottle is empty

'Cause she never gives it the time

Every bottle she finds, they don't compare

(Em) F

To the ones she left behind; There is never a note

So she waits for me to come back home

CHORUS 1

I'm looking for a dead end song

You wish that smoke could change its color

I love it when you talk so much

And act like nothing went wrong

I'm looking for a dead end song

We sit and find flaws in everyone

I want to keep you by my side

Holding off tidal waves

VERSE 2

"Mint Car" is keeping us warm

She lays crossed upon the bed

(Em) F

We are puzzles making shapes with our hands

I take my finger, turn it into a pen

Then I run my hand down your spine

You guess to write something profound, Something like:

(Em)

"Our love will last 'til we die"

I say "you're good at this game"

but what I really wrote is

How I've yet to be saved

CHORUS 2

I'm looking for a dead end song

You wish that smoke could change its color

I love it when you talk so much

And act like nothing went wrong

I'm looking for a dead end song

We sit and find flaws in everyone

I want to keep you by my side

Holding off tidal waves

REFRAIN

I'm searching for a dead end song

You wish that smoke could change its color

I wanna get you right by my side

I'm searching for a dead end song

We sit and find flaws in everyone

I want to keep you right by my side

CHORUS 3

I'm looking for a dead end song

You wish that smoke could change its color

I love it when you talk so much

And act like nothing went wrong

I'm looking for a dead end song

We sit and find flaws in everyone

I want to keep you by my side

Holding off tidal waves

Fade to end

Song: Snails (Track 9)

Tabbed by:azimuth457

Email:azimuth457@gmail.com

Tuning: half step down(live)/standard-capo 2(recording)

If you want to know where each part goes, watch a video of them playing this live here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvF9R695UlU

Intro:UPDATED TOO!

Verse: the first time after the intro, try to play it a little more like the

new intro, and then play this afterward.

Pre-Chorus:

G|-|---4---4---4---6-|----2--2-----------|-|------7----6---(twice next time)-|

< repeat there >-------------------< > ^mess around with these chords^

Chorus:

Outro:

VERSE

Nico, come back home

Show me that you care

And loves just not a flare on my sleeve

Sleep well, I pray that cardboard boxes,

Set the perfect stage.

'Cause wood grain makes all man made things seem so out of date

Life is not a play, it's what we

Make of the people we love.

CHORUS

Snails see the benefits

The beauty in every inch

Oh why, why, why, why, why, why

Are you quick to kiss?

VERSE

She bites at blades and leaves

God damn you shrubbery

Well I?m sick of vanity plates

Should we move to the UK?

'Cause life here in the states has escaped

PRE

All the people in love

What we make of these people we love

Snails see the benefits

The beauty in every inch

Oh why, why, why, why, why

Are you quick to kiss?

Baby, maybe I spoke to soon

I?ll touch you once you make the first move

Snails see the benefits

The beauty in every inch

VERSE

I watch her as she runs

My mother jumps the gun

She puts her in her arms

That is just like my mom

Never lets go, never lets me grow old

I wanna pay her back

But love is nothing you can tax

My family?s not rich by any means

But I feel we won the lottery, that day

The rock swallowed the girl

And I cried as cameras caught my eyes

My tears turned into butterflies

They fly away as caskets close

A new day comes you?ll wake unfold

Smile when you feel the sunlight

You feel the sunlight

You feel the sunlight

CHORUS

Snails see the benefits

The beauty in every inch

Oh why, why, why, why, why

Are you quick to kiss?

Baby, maybe I spoke to soon

I?ll touch you once you make the first move

Snails see the benefits

The beauty in every inch

Oh snails see the benefits

The beauty in every inch

Song: The Compromise (Track 10)

Tabbed by: Brandon Karcic

This is based on the andyp2345 tab. Changes include:

-The optional (A) (B) slide at the end of the chorus progression

-A instead of A7

-Corrected chords on the bridge

INTRO

C#m A E (A) (B) E (A) (B)

VERSE 1

You, you think it's cool to be crazy

I say you're born rich - stay rich

There's no point in taking chances.

And me, I wouldn't call it a sophomore slump, no, I'd say

I'm one step closer to bein' just where I want to be

PRECHORUS 1

Away from this scene,

Away from this machine, Alright!

CHORUS 1

Meet me in the middle

Well c'mon let's make up a dance

And we'll agree to call it the compromise

E(A) (B)

VERSE 2

Step one: find a partner, grab a pen

And don't you dare ask questions,

Just sign on the dotted line

Step two: throw your partner behind a desk

Will then do absolutely nothing

So it's your job to dance and smile the whole time

PRECHORUS 2

Don't call it a trend,

'cause it's the only way we think to get ahead

CHORUS 2

Meet me in the middle

Well c'mon let's make up a dance

And we'll agree to call it the compromise

There's no sense in complainin'

If it doesn't change your minds

Take me by the hand, let's compromise

BRIDGE 1

I can feel your feet touchin' mine

If you can't dance, there's someone else in line

INTERLUDE

C#m A E (A) (B) E (A) (B)

C#m A E (A) (B) E (A) (B)

BRIDGE 2

I can feel your feet touchin' mine

If you can't dance, there's someone else in line

CHORUS 3

Meet me in the middle

Well c'mon let's make up a dance

And we'll agree to call it the compromise

E (A) (B)

There's no sense in complainin'

If it doesn't change your minds

Take me by the hand, let's compromise

E (A) (B)

E (A) (B)

Song: Inches and Falling (Track 11)

Tabbed by: Brandon Karcic

Based on the tab by Sephythrox (Sephythrox@aol.com). I added a couple Dm's and

changed the 'well well well' chords.

I love Love

I love being in love

I don't care what it does to me

Take these tattered boxes

that used to hold your clothes

Break them down

Build them back up with your bones

All you did was construct a mess

You're good to me when only flesh

You're a memory with nothing to show

When we would take trips

We swore we'd never take pictures

Pictures only prove you can't convince

Now I wish those photographs

could convince you that what we had

would only turn out a negative

Well well well

If fingertips are relationships

Then I could barely carry your weight

If fingers are mistakes

Don't use this one to point the blame

Just sing, sing

I love love

I love being in love

I don't care what it does to me

These pills are fine to pass the time

'Til I find my new drug

Then

We'll take our chances

we'll last a month

we'll never speak again

(E) A

How i love being in love

(Interlude, A, E, A)

And don't pick up the line

You're dressed to have a good time

You don't need him, you need to be seen

So someone else can treat you wrong

So you my love can sing this song

I love love

I love being in love

I don't care what it does to me

These pills are fine to pass the time

'Til I find my new drug, then

They'll take advantage

I'll claim that's what i want

To be the new statistic

How I love

How I love

How I love being in love

Take these tattered boxes

That used to hold your clothes

Break them down

Build them back up with your bones

All you did was construct a mess

you're dead to me if love is death

You're a memory with nothing to show

Well well well

If fingertips are relationships

Then maybe I could use a break

She smiles, She points at me

shes says:

Baby i love how you sing

So just sing

I love love

I love being in love

I don't care what it does to me

I love love

I love being in love

I don't care what it does to me

These pills are fine to pass the time

'Til I find my new drug

Then

We'll take our chances

we'll rise above

we'll last until the end

How I love

How I love

How I love being in love

Song: If Work Permits (Track 12)

Tabbed by: Brandon Karcic

Last song on the album. My personal favorite.

INTRO / THE VERSE WHERE SHE CHEATED ON HIM

So the wind that blows across your room,

Carried cheap perfume onto your dresser,

It rained for jewelery and for credit cards,

Two tickets to a film I don't remember,

One day you'll kiss your rabbit's nose, pick up the phone,

To find I've been turned over,

You grab that piece of gold,

Only to find that the smell has taken over,

And all the things you had,

They aren't the same

As what you hold

Now I'm standin' in a room,

That's filled with older folks,

They're pleading baby listen,

And I scream as loud as anyone,

But when asked to make a point,

I tend to whisper

Now highways turn to tidal waves,

And they're asking me to export all of your insecurities,

But that wind that blows across your room, it's gonna set the sails,

And send me back to you, ooh,

CHORUS - THE MELLOW ONE

Sometimes, when sailors are sailin', they,

Think twice, about where they're anchorin'

And I think, I could make better use,

Of my time on land,

I'll drink less,

Cause Lord knows I could use a,

Warm kiss instead of a cold goodbye

I'm writing the folks back home to tell them,

Hey I'm doing all right

THE BAMF BREAKDOWN / THE KING OF CARROT FLOWERS PT. 3

THE VERSE WHERE HE RECOUNTS A DARK CHILDHOOD MEMORY

It's a shame what your father did,

To your brothers head, he smashed it with the

Telephone

Your mother got scared and locked the door,

You were only four, but Lord, you remember it,

So now you're scared of love

I'm here to tell you love's not some fucking blood on the receiver

Love is speaking in code

It's an inside joke, love is coming home

CHORUS - THE NOT MELLOW ONE

Sometimes, when sailors are sailin', they,

Think twice, about where they're anchorin'

And I think, I could make better use,

Of my time on land,

I'll drink less,

Cause Lord knows I could use a,

Warm kiss, Instead of a cold goodbye

I'm writing the folks back home to tell them,

Hey I

THE VERSE WHERE HE'S OVER HER

Yeah I'm doing alright

Yeah I'm doin' just fine

And if she seems as lonely as me, Let her sink

Yeah I'm doin' alright,

Yeah I'm doin' just fine,

And if she seems as lonely as me, let her,

Sink, you let her, sink, well let her!

THE SECOND BAMF BREAKDOWN / THE KING OF CARROT FLOWERS PT. 3 AGAIN / OUTRO

Finish the album with loud grinding feedback

Hope you all enjoyed this. Long live the Format!