Butch Walker – Atl (Guitar)

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The chords are G A F# Bm G A Bm throughout the whole song [Verse 1]
G          A    F#            Bm
Born from hippies back in 1969

G          A        Bm
I was bored by 1992

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I walked into a recruitment office a year before that

G          A        Bm
They said "Son, we’ve been waiting for you"

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Discharged from the Gulf War the very same year

G          A        Bm
I came home with a carton or two

G          A    F#            Bm
Of cigarettes and mixtapes and bullets from a gun

G          A        Bm
That my dead best friend never did use
[Chorus]
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Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you

         G          A           Bm
Let your sweaty embrace open wide

      G            A      F#                Bm
Cause Atlanta, I’m falling like most people do

       G            A               F# G A Bm G A Bm
And I need all your ground to survive
[Verse 2]
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Wasted and downtrodden, only in vain

G          A        Bm
I cried myself blind at the sight

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Of the old shopping center where we used to ride

G          A        Bm
Now condos as sterile as I

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So I bought me an old Airstream for three thousand bucks

G          A        Bm
From a drug dealer I used to owe

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And I thought to myself as I slept off a high

G          A        Bm
The irony is starting to show
[Chorus]
      G            A      F#                Bm
Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you

         G          A           Bm
Let your sweaty embrace open wide

      G            A      F#                Bm
Cause Atlanta, I’m falling like some people do

       G            A               F# G A Bm G A Bm
And I need all your ground to survive
[Verse 3]
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Drove out to Asheville ‘cause that’s where you were

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Where you married into money and pills

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And I wanted so bad to be good with you now

G          A        Bm
But the fact is, I never will

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Because some become lovers because of the sex

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And some you know, they just become friends

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In our case I just became bad at it all

      G          A   N.C.
And I never got good at it again
[Chorus]
      G            A      F#                Bm
Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you

         G          A           Bm
Let your sweaty embrace open wide

      G            A      F#                Bm
Cause Atlanta, I’m suffocating like some people do

       G            A               F# G A Bm G A Bm
And I need all your air to survive