Lagwagon – Obsolete Absolute (Guitar)

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Hang 2014 Fat Wreck Chords Submitted by: [email protected] Key: F#, C# Tuning: Standard EADGBe Chords used: Ebm - x68876 B - x24442 C# - x46664 F# - 244322 G# - 466544 Bbm - x13321 Fm - 133111 F - 133211 C#M7 - x46564 F#m - 244222 Intro: Bass: Ebm--B-C#- x4
Distortion:
Ebm---B-C#- x2
B-F#-C#-Ebm- x3
B-F#-Bbm-Fm-

Ebm--B-C#- x2
Ebm---B-C#- x2
B-F#-C#-Ebm- x3
B-F#-Bbm-Fm-

Ebm--Ebm--
F#--Bbm--Ebm--G#m--
Man Speaks:
F#
  It is inevitable

               Bbm
he becomes obsolete
because the things that define him
  Ebm
become obsolete
These things are
Fm
part of who he

       F
is and now they

      F#
are irrelevant

           C#
typewriters  cursive

           G#
handwriting  dictionaries

Bbm         G#  F#
   encyclopedias  landlines

C#           G#
operators payphones

    Bbm        G#
mail   conversation

F#      C#
  touch sympathy

G#      Bbm       F# Bbm Ebm G#m F# Bbm Ebm F Bbm--
empathy love privacy
Verse 1:
Bbm
   pleased to meet

           G#
you in the grey
swinging slowly
       F#
in the hang
all together
       F
on the beat
new machines
           Bbm
are coming primed
seasons change
       G#
and combine
starving bees
         F#
on dying vines
revelations in
    F
your mind dark
F(hold) and then on fire Chorus 1:
Bbm      Bbm F F#  C#
obsolete ab--solutely

G#       G# C# Ebm
absolute ob-so-lete

F#  Bbm
I'm hanging by my

          Bbm F F#  C#
testimony I   expire

G#
all I've known

G# C# Ebm  Fm  F#  F#(Bass solo)
ob-so-lete absolute
Verse 2:
Bbm
run running

      G#
far behind
faster faster
         F#
borrowed time
heretics has
        F
lost its mind
we are undefined Chorus 2:
Bbm      Bbm F F#  C#
obsolete ab--solutely

G#       G# C# Ebm
absolute ob-so-lete

F#   Bbm
yeah Hanging on
upon nostalgia
Bbm F F#  C#
an--tiqua-ted

G#
all we've known

G# C# Ebm  Fm  F#
ob-so-lete absolute
Bridge:
C#
  swinging men on

  C#M7 Ebm
a tree    weighted

          F#m
bags of debris

C#
  their survival

   C#M7
contingent on
their empathy
Ebm
   they aren't

Bbm          F#  Bbm Ebm G#m
anything but prey
Man Speaks:
   F#
tradition convention
BBm lineage morality
   Ebm
compassion eye

       F
contact history family
Verse 3: F(hold) we aren't anything
    Bbm
but prey all the

             G#
tools taken away
all the words we
        F#
used to say
salutations
      F
courtesies
mama papa gracias Guitar Solo: Bbm--G#--F#--F-- Mama Papa save me Chorus 3:
Bbm      Bbm F F#  C#
obsolete ab--solutely

G#       G# C# Ebm
absolute ob-so-lete

F#   Bbm
yeah Hanging on
our testimonies
Bbm F F#  C#
we  expire

G#
all we really
know we're not anything but prey
Bbm     Bbm F F# C#
obsolete

G#       G# C# Ebm F#
absolute ab-so-lutely

Bbm     Bbm F F# C#
obsolete

G#       G# C# Ebm Fm
absolute ab-so-lutely
Outro: Bbm-- x4, Bbm(hold)