Better Than Ezra - A Lifetime Acoustic

my first tab , yay!

“a lifetime” – better than ezra – acoustic version
* * capo 2 * *

chord variations
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C x32010
G 320003
D/F#m 200232
Cadd9 x32033
G * 320033
Dsus2 200233
D xx0232
Am x02210
Am7 x02010
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C G
allie woke up 8am
D/F#m
graduation day .
Cadd9
got into a car ,
G * Dsus2
and crashed along the way .

C G
when we arrived late to the wake ,
Dsus2
stole the urn while they looked away ,
Cadd9
and drove to the beach
G * D/F#m
’cause i knew you’d want it that way .

Am Am7
and you were standing on the hood of the car
C D/F#m
singing out loud when the sun came up .

* chorus : *
C G
and i know i wasn’t right ,
Dsus2
but it felt so good .
Cadd9 G *
and your mother didn’t mind ,
D/F#m
like i thought she would .
C G
and that rem song was playing
D
in my mind .
Am Am7 C
and three and a half minutes
D
felt like a lifetime . . .
C G D/F#m
it felt like a lifetime

* bridge *
C G D/F#m
and you move like water ( yeah . . . )
Cadd9 G * Dsus2
i could drown in you .
C G D/F#m
and i fell so deep once , ( yeah . . . )
Cadd9 G * Dsus2
till you pulled me throoough ( ohh ohh . . . )
Dsus2
you would tell me
Am Am7
“no one is allowed to be so proud
C D/F#m
they never reach out when they’re giving up . ”
C G
and i know i wasn’t right ,
Dsus2
but it felt so good .
Cadd9 G *
and your mother didn’t mind ,
D/F#m
like i thought she would .
C G
and that rem song was playing
Dsus2
in my mind .
Am Am7 C
and three and a half minutes
D
felt like a lifetime . . .

C G D/F#m
are you sitting in the lights?
Cadd9 G *
or combing your hair again ,
Dsus2
and talking in rhymes?
Cadd9 G * Dsus2 D/F#m
are you sitting in the liiiights?

( softly . . . )
C G
when i got home , heard the phone ,
D
your parents had arrived .
C
and your dad set his jaw
G D
your mom just smiled and sighed .
( getting louder . . . )
C G
but they left soon and i went to my room .
D/F#m
played that disc that you’d given me ,
Cadd9 G *
and i shut my eyes
Dsus2
swear i could hear the sea . . .

Am Am7
when we were standing on the hood of your car
C D
singing out loud when the sun came up .

* chorus *
C G
and i know i wasn’t right ,
Dsus2
but it felt so good .
Cadd9 G *
and your mother didn’t mind ,
D/F#m
like i thought she would .
C G D
and that rem song was playing in my mind .
Am Am7 C
and three and a half minutes ,
Dsus2 Am7 C
three and a half minutes ,
D G
felt like a lifetime .