Song: The Mess Inside
Artist: The Mountain Goats
Album: All Hail West Texas
Tabbed by: Jon (jonlancaric@hotmail.com)
Standard Tuning
Chords:
-3- -0- -2-|
-3- -1- -3-|
-0- -0- -2-|
-0- -2- -0-|
-2- -3- -x-|
-3- -x- -x-|
Riff (I call this "Walk" in the tab...it's basically a bass note walk, but should
be done with strumming):
----0---0-----------3-----|
----1---1-----------3-----|
----0---0---0-------0-----|
----2---0---0-------0-----|
----3---2---0---2---2-----|
----------------3---3-----|
So here we go...
Intro = G
We took a weekend, drove to Provo
C -Walk- G
The snow was white and fluffy
But a weekend in Utah won't fix what's wrong with us
And the grey sky was vast and real cryptic above me
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D C C -Walk- G
I wanted you, to love me like you used to do
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We took 2 weeks in the Bahamas
Went out dancing every night
Tried to fight the creeping sense of dread with temporal things
Most of the time I guess I felt alright
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D C D C -Walk- G
But I wanted you, to love me like you used to do
But you cannot run, And you cannot hide
From the wreck we've made of our house, And the mess inside
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We went down to New Orleans
One weekend in the Spring
Looked hard for what we'd lost
It was painful to admit it, but we couldn't find a thing
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D C D C -Walk- G
And I wanted you, to love me like you used to do
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Went to New York City in September
Took a train out of Manhattan, to the Grand Army stop
Found that bench we'd sat together on a thousand years ago
When I felt such love for you I thought my heart was gonna pop
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D C D C -Walk- G D G
And I wanted you, to love me like you used to do
But I cannot run, And I can't hide
From the wreck we've made of our house, And the mess inside
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Outro:
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That's it. Pretty easy. Questions, comments, suggestions are welcomed.