Frank Turner – Imperfect Tense (Guitar Acoustic)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

Am* riff
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[Intro] Am* [Verse 1]
Am                                        Fsus2
Naked and retched and retching on a hotel bathroom floor

Gsus2
Somewhere in the city

Am                                               Fsus2
Three days not sleeping, not eating, not feeling good anymore

            Gsus2               Dm
Drenched in sweat and self-pity now

Dm                       Fsus2
It's not a pretty sight
[Chorus]
        Gsus2        Am*      Fsus2
What to say in my defense?

  Gsus2          Am*
I was imperfect, tense

Fsus2             Gsus2          C          C/B      Fsus2  F
Used to have such balance, but I don't know where it went

             G                    Am*
So won't you be my present sense?
[Verse 2]
Am                                             Fsus2
Breaking, I'm shaking, it's taking a long long time

                      Gsus2
To come down off this murderous medication

Am                                        Fsus2           Gsus2                Dm
Trying to remember my reasons for running myself into the ground with such dedication
[Chorus]
Fsus2   Gsus2       Am*       Fsus2
What to say in my defense?

  Gsus2          Am*
I was imperfect, tense

Fsus2             Gsus2          C          C/B      Fsus2  F
Used to have such balance, but I don't know where it went

             G             Bb    Am   G#   G7
So won't you be my present sense?
[Bridge]
Dm   C   G/B   Am G
It's not meant to be

C G/B Am   G  F
I am  lost at sea

   Dm C     G/B  Am G
So mermaids sing to me

       C
Of the better times and the things that can be

       F
And of islands in the Mediterranean sea

       C
And of eating and sleeping and times when I should

       F
And of washing the drink and the drugs from my blood

         Dm                G
And I've nothing to say in my defense

    Dm                   G
I'm far from perfect and I'm still tense

     Dm                G
They say that love can change you once

        Dm                 G
Please, say that love can change me once

        Fsus2
Come on change me