The Lawrence Arms – A Toast (Guitar)

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Lawrence Arms

A Toast
Cocktails and Dreams

2005 Submitted by: [email protected]

Key: G
Chords used:
G -  320033
D -  xx0232
Em - 022000
C -  x32010
[tab]Intro: G-C-D-C- x2
Verse 1:

G                C
you tell me that you

wanna go to heaven

        D
but you run around acting

            C
like you're gonna live

G
  forever you tell me that

       C
you're going through hell

           D
but you're putting others

               C
through it you say that i

             D
smell like i haven't had

            C
a shower in 23 days

        D
like an unbalanced beer

        C
can two minutes too late

  G
a look like a stale face

C
from a fresh grave with

  D
a chip on my shoulder

       C
and an eye full of rage

Refrain 1:

D         C
  can you taste that beer

          D
with your back to the

             Em
bar can you smell a

cigarette without

C                       D
letting down your guard?

Chorus 1:

G          D
  ten cans 4 a.m. friends

    C
the sad thing is that

       D
you've always been like

    G
this moaning in a bed

D
shaped like a hearse

            C
believe the lies that

                 D(hold)
you tell yourself

Post Chorus: G-C-D-C- x2
Verse 2:

G
you tell me that my

C
problem is thinking

          D
but i can chase it

            C
away with a problem

             G
like drinking way you

                  C
tell me you don't wanna

get old but you've got

  D
a party on the line and

  C
a grave on hold like a

D
drunk operator like a

C
game of roulette, like

  D
a martini balanced on

  C
a whiffle ball bat

       G
when a hard wind blows

     C
it's gonna fall down

         D
when the wind blows

there'll be broken

C
glass all around

(Repeat Refrain 1) Chorus 2:

G          D
  ten cans 4 a.m. friends

    C
the sad thing is that

       D
you've always been like

    G
this moaning in a bed

D
shaped like a hearse

            C
believe the lies that

you tell yourself

D
  thinking you'll

          G    G G G G G G
never get worse

Guitar Solo: G-Em-D-C- x4
Refrain 2:

        C
can you taste that beer

          D
with your back to the

             Em
bar can you smell a

cigarette with

      C            D
your smile so far away

Chorus 3:

G          D
  ten cans 4 a.m. friends

    C
the sad thing is that

       D
you've always been like

    G
this like a bright

      D
shiny apple with a

       C
worm inside believe

    C
the lies that you

             D
tell yourself this is

                G  Em C
the only way to die

this is the only

       G  Em C
way to die

this is the only

       G      Em    C
way to die ya ya ya ya

this is the only

       G      Em    C
way to die ya ya ya ya

this is the only

       G  Em C G Em C C C C C C C
way to die