Kimya Dawson – Being Cool (Guitar)

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So this one's a little funky, I've watched many videos of her playing it and I still don't quite have it. I believe it's just E major the whole song and then she takes her middle finger off the A string. It almost looks like she almost puts her pinky on the B string 5th fret but that doesn't quite sound right to me so idk. I've marked the parts where she lifts up the A string as E*. [Verse]

E                E*            E                  E*
Is New York City really like a graveyard they all ask me

          E           E*                E               E*
And I say well it was last week but man that was in the past

              E            E*               E             E*
See I stopped going to the places where the people act so nasty

    E                      E*            E                  E*           E      E*    E
And pretentious 'cause I'm happy sitting with my friends in sidewalk singing songs

[Verse]

E*       E                E*              E                E*
And some people are still standing in the way of where I'm going

   E            E*              E                 E*
So I say please excuse me, step aside, or keep on moving

E                            E*          E                E*
And I guess they sensed that my momentum meant that I was winning

E                 E*           E                   E*              E       E* E
But I'm only just beginning and I'd rather go with friends than go alone

E*       E              E*        E                   E*
And some people grab my hands and some people grab my shirt

E           E*                        E             E*
Some people race ahead to see if they can get there first

E                E*                        E                 E*
Some people stay behind 'cause they've got something else in mind

E            E*                E           E*                 E     E* E
Whatever you decide if you are true to you you're gonna be alright

E*          E      E*          E                   E*
Like Akida, he's a father now, he is in love with Amber

E                    E*      E                  E*
Their baby's name is Skylar, he's a baby of the summer

E             E*        E                E*
I wonder as I wander if I'll ever settle down

      E              E*            E           E*               E     E* E E*
Or if every day I'll take my roots uprooted en route to another town

[Verse]

E*    E            E*              E           E*
I was sitting on a couch somewhere watching VH-1

       E              E*                       E             E*
When I found out that Bruce Springsteen is his mother's only son

    E                E*              E                 E*
I'm my mother's only daughter and we were both born to run

E                 E*              E             E*                   E     E* E E*
Even he says it's amazing raising babies in the place where you come from

E               E*                E               E*
But I am a rock tumbler, I've got rocks inside my head

         E                     E*              E                  E*
And just because they come out shining doesn't mean that they are diamonds

    E                     E*                E             E*
And I guess that my worst nightmare is your very favorite bar

         E                  E*                   E               E*          E     E* E
When I'm worth my weight in shale and slate I'll know that I'm a super duper star

[Chorus]

E*        E                 E*                      E             E*
I'll be a great big ball of burning gas and I'll be sitting on my big fat ass

E               E*             E              E*
Sipping Cristal Light beside a plastic wading pool

E                        E*              E               E*
And the next day I'll be somewhere else, part of me will hate myself

E               E*                  E           E*    E E* E E*
Part of me will know deep down that I am pretty cool

E                   E*            E               E*    E E* E E*
The part of me that knows I never cared for being cool

E                   E*            E               E*    E E* E E*
The part of me that knows I never cared for being cool

E                   E*            E               E*    E E* E E*
The part of me that knows I never cared for being cool

E                   E*               E         E*          E E* E
The part of me that knows I'm really scared of being cool