Elliott Smith – Go By (Guitar)

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[Intro] D D9 D+9 D [Verse 1]
D                    F
Go on and parade and fade

G                 Bb
Hit the scene and slow

F   Edim  Dm  C   F          F/E Dm
Spending all your time with some girl

        G            Bb
You'll never get to know

F     E  Bb
Wound up tight

F       E   Eb Dm
Dressed all in white

Dm    C       G
Some torn mainsail

G              Bb   G
Blowing out to drift

                Bb   C  F
Leave you even if

    F   Edim Dm  C   Dm
You live up  in your head

           G            Bb
Scared of every little noise

        F Edim Dm   C   F       F/E Dm
Someone always breaking in accidentally

        G                Bb
Using nothing but their voice

F      E    Bb     F    E   Eb   Dm
Shrill and small, echo down the hall

Dm   C          G
Re- peating pet names

                Bb   G                        Bb Bdim C A/C# Dm
See it in your eyes----,  you're only passing by--------------

   Bdim
Go by---

   F/C        Bb   A  Dm
Go by----

   Bdim
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   F/C        Bb    A  D
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[Verse 2]
D                F
Someone's in the way

          G                Bb
Of pretty words and inside slurs

         F     Edim  Dm  C   F
All the things they have to say

F/E   Dm        G                 Bb
To perform the work that they've rehearsed

       F     E  Bb
It's a waste of time

F   E      Eb Dm      C            G
I'd put it behind me once and for all

                  Bb          G
And let the high decline------

G                     Bb Bdim C A/C# Dm
If the problem wasn't mine----

   Bdim
Go by---

   F/C        Bb   A  Dm
Go by----

   Bdim
Go by----

   F/C        Bb    A  Dm
Go by----

   Bdim
Go by----

   F/C        Bb    A  Dm
Go by----

   Bdim
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   F/C        Bb    F Bb
Go by----