The Menzingers – The Bars (Guitar)

D Tuning (D-G-C-F-A-D)
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

In the live in-store performances of this song, they've been playing these chords but only tuned down a half-step. On the record, it's these chords, but tuned down a whole step to DGCFAD. If you don't want to tune down a whole step, transpose down 2 semitones so the first chord reads "F" (or down another semitone, play it in E with a capo, etc etc). [Intro] G Bm C G C G D (x2) [Verse]
G               Bm
Sunken eyes and strangers' faces

 C                    G               C          
I fall asleep in the strangest places

                    G
What the hell am I doing?

               D
Where have my friends gone?

       G                    Bm
Can't stand these people no more

       C                       G                  C
But you cannot leave when you can't find the door

                           G
Smashed my phone, lost my wallet

                D
Who's this new friend of mine?
{Chorus]
        Em          G        
Why do some people make you nervous

     Em                  G             C    C/B  Am
And others drive you to drink when the bars are closing?
[Interlude] G Bm C G C G D [Verse]
G                      Bm
Nightstand memorial to past libation

 C                G               C
A sudden fear of phone vibrations

                  G
Too hung over to sleep

              D
Too tired to stay alive

G                 Bm
Benzos, bile, and bills

        C                G          C
There's so much missing time to kill

                G                D
I shake like an airplane on its way down
{Chorus]
        Em          G        
Why do some people make you nervous

     Em                  G             C    C/B  Am
And others drive you to drink when the bars are closing?

          C    C/B  Am
When the bars are closing?
[Interlude] G Bm (x2) [Bridge]
G                              Bm
No good'll come from stumbling home with the sun

G                              Bm
No good'll come from stumbling home with the sun

           C
I used to care

       D               G              Bm
Now I stare into the sunken eyes and strangers' faces

 C                    G               C          
I fall asleep in the strangest places

                    G
What the hell am I doing?

               D
Where have my friends gone?
[Interlude] G Bm C G C G D (x2) {Chorus]
        Em          G        
Why do some people make you nervous

     Em                  G             C    C/B  Am
And others drive you to drink when the bars are closing?

          C    C/B  Am
When the bars are closing?