The Distillers – The Blackest Years (Bass Tab)

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Artist: The Distillers Song: The Blackest Years Album: The Distillers (2000) [Intro]
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[Verse] (0:30)
  Oh Berlin, your heart has been drawn and quartered again
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  Oh the East and the West were divided by a wall that staunched their freedom
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  Well the wall came down in 1989    But its ghost still refuses to leave
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  These hauntings are so reputative  There's a bit of you in me  Let's go!
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[Verse] (1:05)
  Oh Berlin, your life's on fire      Burns deep within this heart of mine
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  You got astronomical , economical, suffering for a century
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   And when the ocean swells that day I'll get on my ship and I'll sail away
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  On this ship     On this ship      On this ship, oh
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[Chorus] (1:30)
  And when you're all alone, don't forget me
  And when I'm all alone, I won't forget you
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  And when you're all alone, don't forget me
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  Cause I'm on the wrong side of the tracks
  But I did not know until you turned you're back
  I'm in the blackest years of my life
  But I did not know until you said goodbye                     Goodbye
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[Verse] (2:24)
  Oh Berlin your witness stands here On this city shamed kinda day
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I'm going home hey...
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I'm going home hey...
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I'm going home hey...
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[Chorus] (2:53)
  And when you're all alone, don't forget me
  And when I'm all alone, I won't forget you
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  And when you're all alone, don't forget me
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  Cause I'm on the wrong side of the tracks
  But I did not know until you turned you're back
  I'm in the blackest years of my life
  But I did not know until you said goodbye                     Goodbye
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[Breakdown] (3:34)
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[Outro] (3:46)
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