You Avoid Parties Cifras

You Avoid Parties
 
by the Posies
 
(tab by Brian Allen)
 
Listen to the song for a better idea of the rhythms invovled.
The vocal melody is a bit nonstandard, but I think if you hear
the song you'll be able to catch on to it.
 
 
C Em
 
C Em G7
 
                          C
Isn't it nice how things resolve
              F                   G              C
To test your will would take the skill of crazy ants
                          F                 C
You fit your mind into smaller and smaller jars
                                   Em
You find them clutching the last straw
              F                 G                 C
As if it's worth the worse for wear and tear you look
 
     F                                                 C
But why try to understand someone that you don't even know
Even though he brought you up, beat you up,
 D7
Shut you up when you cried ?
                     C
And now you avoid parties
          Em
Because they remind you
      F
Of someone who
 G
you used to know
         G                  F          C
Pretty soon you'll want to avoid yourself
 
C Em
 
C Em G7
                                C
A popular phrase from the same year
                F                 G                C
Would draw no tears save for the fears of looking back
                       F                 C
You find you hide for weaker and weaker reasons
                            Em
The battle you lost in the mirror
                F                 G                C
Earned you no thanks but wooden planks were soon withdrawn
 
          F                            C
And you couldn't run away even if you tried
And you tried and you cried 'cause you knew that laying flat
D7
In your parents' car
                    C
And now you avoid fathers
         Em
Because they remind you
     F          G
Of someone who you used to know
G                   F                  C
Pretty soon you'll want to avoid your own
 
                                C
And now you're finally on your own
               F               G              C
You draw your choices from the voices you despise
                          F                    C
You find you're drawn to tighter and tighter circles
                    Em
Flashbacks, flashes forward
          F                                     C
You are insane though you have gained such wide appeal
                 F             C
And all the car rides, cheap insides, laughter at the right people
                                                D7
At the right time at the right line in the right frame of mind
 
                    C
And now you avoid thinking
            Em                 F              G
Because it reminds you of someone you used to know
G                        F             C
Pretty soon you'll only think about yourself
 
Outro
C Em F G C
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