Car Seat Headrest – The Catastrophe Good Luck With That Man (Guitar Live)

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**************** Caug [8(11)(10)988] C6* [8(12)(10)988] Cadd4 [88(10)988] **************** [Intro]
e|--------|
B|-5\3-1--| (this little riff repeats a few times into the verse as well;
G|--------|  Ethan plays this an octave higher live)
D|--------|
A|--------|
E|--------|
C Csus2 Csus2
C Csus2 C6 C
(basically you play the second Csus2 (2 strums) and C6 C (1 strum each) after palm muting Csus2 a bit;
C swtiches to Csus2 on count 4 (or right before it); it's a bit hard to discern but I believe so) [Verse 1]
C       Csus2        Csus2
Signs point in every direction,

C     Csus2       C6 C
Advertising a one-night heaven

C    Csus2             Csus2
Got no clue what's driving us,

C     Csus2       C6 C
Blind as hell and burning up with your love
F Am Dm F [Verse 2]
C     Csus2          Csus2   C          Csus2                         C6 C
Practice my practical math and hide in the van while I'm counting the cashbox

C     Csus2          Csus2
Beads of sweat falling one by one

C    Csus2               C6 C
At the Valero station in the California sun
F Am Dm F [Verse 3]
C                       Csus2
Denver to Salt Lake, nine-hour drive

C               Csus2          C6 C
With a breakdown in Rawlins, stuck at the diner,

Am
Keep one eye on the time zone changes

G                        Bb
Two weeks to go, and it feels like ages

[Bridge]
    F
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------3-3-------------------------------|
D|---------------------0-0-2-2-----------------------------------| (played before every line)
A|---------0-0-1-1-3-3-------------------------------------------|
E|-1-1-3-3-------------------------------------------------------|

Dm   Bb    Dm  Bb  F
We should start a band!

Dm   Bb    Dm   Bb       F
Lose all touch with the real world

Dm    Bb   Dm   Bb    F
Good luck with that, man!

     Dm          Bb          Dm     Bb
And that was the start of a major chatastrophe
[Verse 4]
C          Csus2       Csus2
Stuck in the smallest green room

C        Csus2                 C6  C
No way out except through the main room

C        Csus2                    Csus2
An hour to kill with the shirts on out back,

C        Csus2                 C6 C
Four dead phones and a cigarette packet
F Am F G [Verse 5]
C         Am
Hear ye, discouraged workers,

C                F
You who hurt and don't deserve it

Am
Time is short and life is rough

            G                        F                       C
But you've still got the weekend to bury the pearls of your love
[Chorus]
C       Am                      Dm
If you think you're unworthy of life

F                                C
If you're tired of just playing nice

           Am                     Dm
If you're looking for one light of hope

           F
Amidst the pile of bones

     C                      Am
Well, you can come with us tonight,

              Dm               F                  C
Maybe you can recognize it as somewhere close to home
[Interlude] C Csus2 C6 C (the following chords are difficult to hear outside the live version, and whether C6 or Cadd4 is used is rather arbitrary; generally you can just switch between C, Caug, C6* and Cadd4 in any way that sounds good)
C
Is it the sickness or you that's talking?

Caug                C6*
Is it the sickness or you that's talking?

C
Did it leave a stain on the upholstery?

Caug                C6*
Are you still breathing? Can you hear my heart beat?

C
Is my love true? Are you still afraid of me?

Caug                C6*
Is my love true? Are you still afraid of me?

C
Can you make it work? Is this kind of dumb?

Caug                Cadd4
Does it put the ram in the ramalamadingdong?

C
Is the exit soon? Is there a problem, officer?

Caug             C6*
Is the exit soon? Is there a problem, officer?

C
Did I hear it wrong? Am I stating the obvious?

Caug             Cadd4
Can you hear it now? Won't you tell me what time it is?

C
Is the accusation from you or the sickness?

Caug             C6*
Is the accusation from you or the sickness?

C
Is it OPD? Is it just your opinion?

Caug             C6*
Does it give hope to the starving millions?

   F                                Dm   Bb   Dm   Bb
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------3-3-------------------------------| (x4), except second time strum F and slide
D|---------------------0-0-2-2-----------------------------------| to Em on the 12th fret instead of the riff
A|---------0-0-1-1-3-3-------------------------------------------|
E|-1-1-3-3-------------------------------------------------------|

C (G) Bb Am G F G F (x2)
(this G is only played in the live version; in the studio version it's played from Verse 8 onward)
[Verse 6]
      C                 (G)
I've driven through the desert of irony,

  Bb                       Am
Driven all arounf and I've seen a great many

 G                  F
Bones, dry bones in American towns,

 G                  F
Bones, dry bones in American towns
[Verse 7]
 C                  (G)
Kids who don't know why they bleed

              Bb                  Am
Because they couldn't meet their parents' needs

          G                  F
They are bones, dry bones in American towns,

 G                  F
Bones, dry bones in American towns
[Verse 8]
      C                 G
Will you restore these parts to holiness,

  Bb                   Am                  G    F  G  F
This thick head, this broken heart, these bones
[Verse 9]
 C                       G
We could be alive right here and now

    Bb            Am
But only if you show us how

       G                          F
These bones, dry bones are gonna walk around

      G                   F
These bones, dry bones in American towns

      G                   F
These bones, dry bones in Cincinnati, Maple Valley,

 G                         F
San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Kansas City
[Verse 10] N.C. Ran out in any direction N.C. One more time to reach perfection N.C. Got no clue what's driving us
N.C.                                    C
Blind as hell and burning up with your love
[Chorus]
C       Am                      Dm
If you think you're unworthy of life

F                                C
If you're tired of just playing nice

           Am                     Dm
If you're looking for one light of hope

            F
Inside the last days of Rome

      C                      Am
Well, you can come with us tonight,

              Dm               F
Maybe you can recognize there's still some life inside
[Outro]
       C          Csus2         C6 C
These bones, dry bones in American towns,

       C          Csus2         C6 C
Bones, dry bones in American towns,

       C          Csus2         C6 C
These bones, dry bones in American towns,

       C          Csus2         C6 C
Bones, dry bones in American towns, yeah