Room For Squaresv2

Room for Squares- John Mayer

Tabbed by Robin Young

No Such Thing

Chords:

A: X02220

A9: X02424

Am: X02210

C#m7/4: X4X452

D7: XX0212

E: 022100

E7/4: 022244

E9: XX2442

E9/4: 024244

Em9: 02X032

F7: XX3210

F7(b5): XX3200

F#7: 242322

G: 3X0003

Intro:

‘Welcome to the real world,’ she said to me

Condescendingly

‘Take a seat, take your life

Plot it out in black and white’

Well, I never lived the dreams of the prom kings

And the drama queens

I’d like to think the best of me

Is still hiding up my sleeve

They love to tell you, ‘Stay inside the lines’

But something’s better on the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school

I wanna scream at the top of my lungs

I just found out there’s no such thing as the real world

Just a lie you’ve got to rise above

So the good boys and girls

Take the so-called right track

Faded white hats, grabbing credits and

Maybe transfers

They read all the books

But they can’t find the answers

And all of our parents

They’re getting older

I wonder if they’ve wished for

Anything better

While in their memories

Tiny tragedies

They love to tell you, ‘Stay inside the lines’

But something’s better on the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school

I wanna scream at the top of my lungs

I just found out there’s no such thing as the real world

Just a lie you’ve got to rise above

F7(b5) – F7

F7(b5) – A

F7(b5) A

I Am invincible (3x)

As long as I’m alive

I wanna run through the halls of my high school

I wanna scream at the top of my lungs

I just found out there’s no such thing as the real world

Just a lie you’ve got to rise above

I just can’t wait till my ten-year reunion

I’m gonna bust down the double doors

And when I stand on these tables before you

You will know what all this time was for

Why Georgia

Chords:

A: X02220

A7Sus4: X02030

Bbsus2: X13311

C: X32010

Csus2: X3X033

C6/9: X3223X

C9: X32033

D: XX0232

D/F#: 2X023X

Dsus4: X5403X

Em: 022000

Em7: 022030

F: XX3211

F7: XX3210

Fsus2: XX3011

G: 3X0003

G5: 3X0033

G7(no3): 3X403X

Gsus2: 3X0233

Intro:

I am driving up

85 in the

Kind of morning that

Lasts all afternoon

I’m just stuck inside the gloom

Gsus2 – Dsus4(2x)

Four more exits to

My apartment but

I am tempted to

Keep the car in drive

And leave it all behind

Because I wonder sometimes

About the outcome

Em D/F# G A7Sus4

Of a still, verdict-less life

Am I living it right?

Am I living it right?

Am I living it right?

Why, why, Georgia, why?

I rent a room and I

Fill the spaces with

Wood in places to

Gsus2 G7(no3) C6/9

Make it feel like home

But all I feel’s alone

Gsus2 G7(no3) C6/9

It might be a quarter-life crisis

Or just the stirring in my soul

Either way, I wonder sometimes

About the outcome

Em D/F# G A7Sus4

Of a still, verdict-less life

Am I living it right?

Am I living it right?

Am I living it right?

Fsus2 C G5 - G7(no3) - G5

Why, why, Georgia, why?

So what, so I’ve got a smile on

But it’s hiding the quiet superstitions in my head

Don’t believe me

Don’t believe me

When I say I’ve got it down

Everybody is

Just a stranger, but

That’s the danger in

Gsus2 G7(no3) C6/9

Going my own way

I guess it’s the price I have to pay

Still, ‘everything happens

For a reason’

A7Sus4

Is no reason

Not to ask myself

If I am living it right

Am I living it right?

Am I living it right?

Why?

Tell me why?

Why?

Why, Georgia, why?

My Stupid Mouth

Chords (there are a lot of variations of the

same ones, which is why there are so many):

A/C#: X4X2X0

A7Sus4: X02030

Bm4: X24430

D/G: 3X0232

D5: XX023X

D5/B: X2X23X

D/F#: 2X023X

D7: XX0212

D7sus4: XX0213

D7/C#: X4022X

D7/F#: 2X022X

Em7: 022030

Fsus2: XX4011

F#m7: 242222

F#7/Bb: 6X465X

Gsus2: 3X023X

Gsus2/B: X2X233

G5: 3X0033

Gm: 355333

Gm7: 353333

Gm6/9: XX5355

Gm11: 3X0311

G7(no3): 3X0032

Intro:

My stupid mouth

Has got me in trouble

I said too much again

To a date over dinner yesterday

And I could see

She was offended

She said “Well, anyway”

Just dying for a subject change

G7(no3) F#7/Bb Bm7/4

Oh, it’s another social casualty

Score one more for me

How could I forget

Mama said, “Think before speaking”

No filter in my head

Oh, what’s a boy to do?

I guess he better find one soon

We bit our lips

She looked out the window

Rolling tiny balls of napkin paper

I played a quick game of chess

With the salt and pepper shaker

And I could see clearly

An indelible line was drawn

Between what was good

What just slipped out

And what went wrong

G7(no3) F#7/Bb Bm7/4

Oh, the way she feels about me has changed

Thanks for playing, try again

How could I forget

Mama said, “Think before speaking”

No filter in my head

Oh, what’s a boy to do?

I guess he better find one

I’m never speaking up again

It only hurts me

Bm4 F#m7 D/G A7Sus4 Bm4

I’d rather be a mystery

Than she desert me

Oh, I’m never speaking up again

Starting now

Starting now

One more thing

Why is it my fault?

So maybe I try too hard

But it’s all because of this desire

I just wanna be liked

Just wanna be funny

Looks like the joke’s on me

So call me Captain Backfire

I’m never speaking up again

It only hurts me

Bm4 F#m7 D/G A7Sus4 Bm4

I’d rather be a mystery

Than she desert me

Oh, I’m never speaking up again

I’m never speaking up again

I’m never speaking up again

Starting now

Starting now, ah

Your Body is a Wonderland

Chords:

Am: X02210

Bb: X13331

Bb7: X13231

Bb7/C: X33335

C: X32010

Dm9: X5355X

F: XX3211

F: X3X211

F5: XX3011

F5/Bb: X1XX11

F5/C: X3XX11

F5/D: XX0X11

Gm: 355333

Intro:

We got the afternoon

You got this room for two

One thing I’ve left to do

Discover me, discovering you

And if you want love

We’ll make it

Swimming a deep sea

Of blankets

Take all your big plans

And break them

This is bound to be awhile

Your body is a wonderland

Your body is a wonder

I’ll use my hands

Your body is a wonderland

Something about the way

Your hair falls in your face

I love the shape you take

When crawling towards the pillowcase

You tell me where to go

And though I might leave to find it

I’ll never let your head hit the bed

Without my hand behind it

You want love?

We’ll make it

Swimming a deep sea

Of blankets

Take all your big plans

And break them

This is bound to be awhile

Your body is a wonderland

Your body is a wonder

I’ll use my hands

Your body is a wonderland

(I’m never speaking up again

I’ll use my hands)

Damn, baby

You frustrate me

I know you’re mine, all mine, all mine

But you look so good, it hurts sometimes

Dm9 (for 10 measures)

Your body is a wonderland

Your body is a wonder

I’ll use my hands

Your body is a wonderland

Your body is a wonderland

Da da da

Da da da da da

Da da da

Da da da da

(2x)

Neon

Chords:

Ab: 466544

Ab2: 4X131X

Ab6/9: 4XX311

Ab7: 464444

Bb: X13331

Bb2: 6X353X

Bbsus2: X13311

Bbm7: X13121

Cm7: X35343

C7#9: X3234X

C9: X3X333

Eb: X65343

Fm7: 131111

Fm7/4: XX3344

Gm7: 353333

Gm7/4: 3XX311

F#6/9: 2XX344

G/C: X33433

Intro:

When sky blue gets dark enough

To see the colors of the city lights

A trail of ruby red and diamond white

Hits her like a sunrise

She comes and goes

And comes and goes

Like no one can

Tonight she’s out to lose herself

And find a high on Peachtree Street

From mixed drinks to techno beats it’s always

Heavy into everything

She comes and goes

And comes and goes

Like no one can

She comes and goes

And no one knows

She’s slipping through my hands

She’s always buzzing just like

Ne-on, ne-on

Ne-on, ne-on

Who knows how long, how long, how long

She can go before she burns away

I can’t be her angel now

You know it’s not my place to hold her down

And it’s hard for me to take a stand

When I would take her any way I can

She comes

And she goes

Like no one can

She comes

And she goes

She’s slipping through my hands

She’s always buzzing just like

Ne-on, ne-on

Ne-on, ne-on

Who knows how long, how long, how long

She can go before she burns away

Away

She comes

And she goes

Like no one can

She comes

And she goes

She’s slipping through my hands

She’s always buzzing just like

(repeat & fade)

City Love

A: X02220

A/D: XX0220

Asus4: X02230

Bb: X13331

Bb7: X13231

Bb9: X13211

C: X32010

C7: X32000

D: XX0323

Dsus4/2: XX0253

D5: XX023X

Eb9: XX1331

F7: 1X2210

F13: 1X3230

Gm: 355333

G/D: XX0433

G7: 3X443X

I never liked this apple much

It always seemed too big to touch

I can’t remember how I found

My way before she came around

I tell everyone I smile just because

I’ve got a city love, I found it in Lydia

And I can’t remember life before her name

She keeps a toothbrush at my place

As if I had the extra space

She steals my clothes to wear to work

I know, her hairs are on my shirts

I tell everyone I smile just because

I’ve got a city love, I found it in Lydia

And I can’t remember life before the day

She called up and came to me

Covered in rain, and dinnertime shadowing

And as her clothes spun, we spooned

And I knew I was through when I said ‘I love you’

Friday evening, we’ve been drinking

Two A.M., I swear I might propose

But we close the tab, split a cab

And call each other up when we get home

Falling asleep to the sound of sirens

I’ve got a city love

I found it in Lydia

From the Battery

To the gallery

It’s the kind of thing

You only see in scented, glossy magazines

And I can’t remember life before her name

83

Chords:

Asus2: X02200

A9: X02424

Am7: X02010

Am7/4: X05530

B: X24442

Bm: X24432

C: X32010

C7: X32000

C#m: X46654

D: XX0232

D7: XX0222

D9: X54555

E7sus4: 020200

Em9: 0X403X

F#7: 242322

I’ve these dreams I’m walking home

Home when it used to be

And ev-ery-thing is as it was

Frozen in front of me

Here I stand, six feet small

Ro-man-ticizing years ago

But it’s a bit-ter-sweet feeling

Hearing “Wrapped Around Your Finger” on the radio

And these days

I wish I was six again

Oh, make me a red cape

I wanna be Su-perman

Oh, if only my life

Was more like nine-teen eighty-three

All these things would be more

Like they were at the start of me

Had it made in eighty-three

Think-ing ‘bout my brother Ben

I miss him every day

He looks just like his brother John

But on an eighteen-month delay

Here I stand, six feet small

And smiling ‘cause I’m scared as hell

A9 (tacet)

Kind of like my life is like a sequel to a movie

Em9 (tacet)

Where the actors’ names have changed

Oh, well

Well, these days

I wish I was six again

Oh, make me a red cape

I wanna be Su-perman

Oh, if only my life

Was more like nine-teen eighty-three

All these things would be more

Like they were at the start of me

If my life was more like nineteen eighty-three

I’d plot a course to the source

Of the purest little part of me

And most my memories have escaped me

Or confused themselves with dreams

If hea-ven’s all we want it to be

Send your prayers to me

Care of nineteen eighty-three

You can paint that house a rainbow of colors

Rip out the floorboards, replace the shutters, but

That’s my plastic in the dirt

Whatever happened to my

Whatever happened to my

Whatever happened to my lunchbox?

When came the day

That it got thrown a-way

And don’t you think I should have had

Some say in that deci-sion?

If only my life

If only my life

If only my life…

(repeat & fade)

3x5

This is a really cool song, especially since it’s played so high. There are a lot of

of the same chord, particularly Em, so it’s not as hard as it seems.

Chords:

A: X02220

Am: X02210

Am7: X02010

B7: X21202

B7(no3): X2X202

B7#5/A: X02304

C: X2301X

Cm6/7: X3120X

Cm6/7/A: X0230X

C9: X32033

D: XX0232

Em: 022000

Em6/9: 022022

Em7: 022030

Em9: 02X032

Emadd9: 024000

Em9/C: X23023

Em9/F#: 2X2032

Em9/G: 3X2032

E9: 02404X

E9/B: X2404X

E9/F#: 22404X

F6/9: XX3233

Fsus2: XX4022

G: 3X0003

G/B: X2X033

G7: 3X0001

G13: 3X3200

I’m writing you to

Catch you up on pla- ces I’ve been

And you held this let-ter

Prob’ly got exci- ted, but there’s no- -thing else inside it

Didn’t have a cam-era by my side this time

Hoping I would see the world through both my eyes

Maybe I will tell you all a- bout it

When I’m in the mood to lose my way

With words

To-day, skies are pain-ted

Col-ors of a cow- boy’s cliché

And strange how clouds that look like

Moun-tains in the sky are next to moun- tains anyway

Didn’t have a cam-era by my side this time

Hoping I would see the world through both my eyes

Maybe I will tell you all a- bout it

When I’m in the mood to lose my way

But let me say

You should have seen that sun- rise

With your own eyes

It brought me back to life

You’ll be with me next time

I go out- -side

No more three-by-fives

Em9 – Em9/G – Em9/C – B7(no3)

B7(no3)

I guess you had to be there

B7(no3)

I guess you had to be with me

Oh, to-day I fi-n‘lly o- vercame

Trying to fit the world in-side a pic- ture frame

Maybe I will tell you all a- bout it

When I’m in the mood to lose my way

But let me say

You should have seen that sun- rise

With your own eyes

It brought me back to life

You’ll be with me next time

I go out- -side

No more three-by-fives

Just no more three-by-fives

Cm6/7/A

Love Song for No One

Chords:

A: X02220

A/C#: X4X2X0

A5: X022X0

A5/G: 3X22XX

A7/C#: X42224

Bm: X24432

C#m7: X46454

D: XX0232

Dsus2: XX0230

D6/9add4: XX0453

D9: XX0252

Esus4/B: X22200

F#m: 244222

F#m7: 242222

Gsus2: 3X0233

Intro:

Staying home alone on a Friday

Flat on the floor looking back

On old love

D6/9add4

Or lack thereof

After all the crushes have faded

And all my wishful thinking was wrong

I’m ja- -ded

D6/9add4

I hate it

I’m tired of be- ing alone

So hurry up and get here

I’m so tired of be- ing alone

So hurry up and get here

Get here

Searching all my days just to find you

I’m not sure who I’m looking for

I’ll know it

D6/9add4

When I see you

Until then, I’ll hide in my bedroom

Staying up all night just to write

A love song

D6/9add4

For no one

I’m tired of be- ing alone

So hurry up and get here

I’m so tired of be- ing alone

So hurry up and get here

I could have met you in a sandbox

I could have passed you on the sidewalk

Could I have missed my chance

And watched you walk away?

Oh, no way

I could have met you in a sandbox

I could have passed you on the sidewalk

Could I have missed my chance

And watched you walk away?

I’m tired of be- -ing alone

So hurry up and get here

I’m so tired of be- ing alone

So hurry up and get here

I’m tired of be- -ing alone

So hurry up and get here

I’m so tired of be- ing alone

So hurry up and get here, oh yeah

You’ll be so good

You’ll be so good for me

Back to You

Chords:

A: X02220

A/B: X2X220

A5: X022X0

A9: X02424

B7sus4: X24252

Bm: X24432

Bm7: X24232

C: X32010

C#m: X46654

C#m7/4: X4X452

D: XX0232

D6/9: XX0200

D9: XX0222

E: 022100

E/G#: 4X2400

E5: 022X00

E9: XX2132

Esus4: 022200

F6/9: XX3533

F#m: 244222

F#m7: 242222

F#m9: 242224

F#m11: 2X2200

G5: 3X0033

Intro:

Back to you

It always comes around

Back to you

I tried to forget you

I tried to stay away

But it’s too late

Over you

I’m never over

Over you

There’s something about you

It’s just the way you move

The way you move me

Yeah

I’m so good at for- get- ting

And I quit ev- er- y game I play

But for-give me, love

I can’t turn and walk a-way

This way

Back to you

It always comes around

Back to you

I walk with your sha- dow

I’m sleeping in my bed

With your sil- hou- ette

Yeah

Should have smiled in that pic-ture

If it’s the last thing I’ll see of you

It’s the least that you

Could not do

Ah

Leave the light on

I’ll ne- ver give up on you

Leave the light on

For me, too

For me, too

For me, too

Yeah

Back to me

I know that it comes

Back to me

Doesn’t it scare you?

Your will is not as strong

As it used to be

F#m9 (fade)

Great Indoors

Chords:

C: X32010

Cmaj7: X32000

Cmaj7/E: 032000

C6: X3X210

Cm6: X3X243

D: XX0232

D7: XX0212

D13: X5450X

Em: 022000

Em7: 022030

Em9: 022002

F13: 1X123X

G: 3X0003

G/D: XX0003

Intro:

Check your pulse, it’s

Proof that you’re not lis-ten-ing to

The call your life’s been is-su-ing you

The rhythm of a line of idle days

Scared of a world outside

You should go explore

Pull all the shades and

Wander the great indoors

The great indoors

Lamplight makes the shadows play

And pos-ters take the walls away

The T-V is your windowpane

The view won’t let you down

So put your faith in a late-night show

I bet you didn’t even know

Depends on how far out you go

The chan- nel numbers change

Scared of a world outside

You should go explore

Pull all the shades and

Wander the great indoors

Though late-ly, I can’t blame you

I have seen the world

And some-times wish your room

Had room for two

Da da da da da

So go un-lock the door

And find what you are here for

Leave the great indoors

Leave the great indoors

Check your pulse, it’s

Proof that you’re not lis-ten-ing to

The call you’re life’s been is-su- -ing you

The rhythm of a line of idle days

Of idle days

Not Myself

The tricky thing about this song is that the chords aren’t played directly on the beat,

it was hard to write them in the right place. Listen to the song & figure it out, you’ll

on quickly.

Chords (in relation to capo):

A2/C#: X4X200

Bb13: X1X233

C: X32010

C2: X32030 (aka C9)

Csus2: X3X033

C7: X32000

D: XX0232

E2/Ab: 4X445X

Em7: 022030

F9: XX3213

G: 3X0003

G2/B: X2X233

G7/B: X2X032

Verse 1

Suppose I said

I am on my best behavior

And there are times

I lose my worried mind

Chorus

Would you want me when I’m not myself?

Wait it out while I am someone else?

Verse 2

Suppose I said

Colors change for no good reason

And words will go

From poetry to prose

Chorus

Bridge

And I

In time

Will come a-round

I al- ways do

For you

Ah

Ah, ah

Verse 3 (my favorite part!)

Suppose I said

You’re my saving grace?

Chorus (fade out)

St. Patrick’s Day

Chords (there are a lot!):

A: X02220

A2: X0242X

Asus2: X02200

Am: X02210

Am7: X02010

A7: X02120

Bsus4: X24440

B6: X24444

B6/Eb: X64444

B7sus4: X24252

Bb7b5: 6X675X

C: X32010

C#7: X46464

C#m7/4: X3X341

D: XX0232

D/F#: 2X023X

D6: XX0202

D7/F#: 2X022X

D9: X54555

E: 022100

E/G#: 4X2400

Esus4: 022200

E2/Ab: 4X445X

E7/Ab: 4X2430

E9: XX2442

E9/Ab: 4X2442

Em7: 022030

F#m7: 242222

G: 3X0003

G2: 3X020X

G6: 3X0000

G13: 3X445X

G#m7b5: 4X443X

Ab7/B#: X31112

Absus4/2: 3X022X

Intro: E9 (for 4 measures)

Here comes the cold

Break out the winter clothes

And find a love

To call your own

You, en- -ter you

Your cheeks a shade of pink

And the rest of you

In pow-der blue

Who knows what will be?

But I’ll make you this guarantee

See

No way No-vem-ber will see our goodbye

When it comes to December, it’s ob- vious why

No one wants to be a-lone at Christmastime

In the dark, on the phone

You tell me the names of your brothers

And your fa-vorite col-ors

I’m learn-ing you

And when it snows a-gain

We’ll take a walk outside

And search the sky

Like chil-dren do

I’ll say to you

No way No-vem-ber will see our goodbye

When it comes to December, it’s ob- vious why

No one wants to be a-lone at Christmastime

And come Januar-y, we’re fro- zen inside

Making new resolutions a hun-dred times

Feb-ru-ar- y, won’t you be my Valentine?

And we’ll both be safe till St. Pat- -rick’s Day

We should take a ride tonight around the town

And look around at all the beautiful hou-ses

Some-thing in the way the blue lights on a black night

Can make you feel more

Every-bod-y, it seems to me

Just wants to be like you and me

No one wants to be a-lone at Christmastime

And come Januar-y, we’re fro- zen inside

Making new resolutions a hun-dred times

Feb-ru-ar- y, won’t you be my Valentine?

And if our al- - ways is all that we gave

And we some- day take that a-way

I’ll be all right

If it was just till St. Pat-rick’s Day