Intro/verse (the E-riff)
E Esus4 E Esus4 E
this riff until...
"You're surprised, and then you wake."
Prechorus
G#m A
For all the things you're losing.
E Esus4 E
You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change.
G#m A
And I'm going down to Hollywood.
B
They're gonna make a movie from the things
That they find crawling round my brain.
Chorus
A B C#m
I wish I was a girl
B A
So that you could believe me
B C#m B
And I could shake this static every time
A
I try to sleep
B C#m
I wish for all the world
B
That I could say
E F#
"Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right
A B
These days."
Teh Bridge
The E riff...
and then...this with the E riff after another verse, or two and a chorus
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A
And in one of these dreams
E
You forgive me.
F#m
It makes me think of the bad decisions
A
That keep you at home.
E A
How could anyone else have changed,
F#m
But these are wrong conclusions
A
That leave you alone.
E A
How could everyone rearrange?
E A
How could everyone else have changed?
F#m A
What I see I believe.
E
For all the things I'm losing
E Esus4 E
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change.
G#m A
And I'm going down to Hollywood.
B
They're gonna make a movie from the things
That they find crawling round my brain.
Chorus again
Second bridge (counting crows have so many wonderful emotional changes in their songs)
F#m A B
F#m A B
F#m A B
F#m A B
Well I can't sleep at night.
F#m A B
Well I can't sleep at night.
F#m A B
Well I can't sleep at night.
F#m A B
Well I can't sleep at night.
