The Thing About Distance
The rhythm's pretty easy to get down, just play it as you hear. I'm not positive about
chord names, so i wrote how it's played on guitar.
For some chords that are played in a different manner I indicated so with a *. All
are below.
Standard Tuning
Capo 1
Relative to capo
AE F#m Dm7 A
Folding love letters and carefully placing them
A E/Ab F#m
in a box underneath my bed
C#/E#* AbM7*
When I drink I read over them
A E/Ab F#m
I'm much stronger than I was when I knew her,
B7
but see here, see here,
A E/Ab F#m
doesn't mean we should have never met,
A E A
it doesn't mean we should have never met.
A E F#m
We had a lot of awful s**t go down,
Dm7 A
never love again you swore
A E/Ab F#m
I said things I'll probably go to hell for
C#/E#* AbM7**
We both felt really young
A E F#m
But anyway that was a long time ago,
B7
so see here, see here,
A E/Ab F#m
doesn't mean I can't wish her the best,
A E A
I hope she gets that job in Ireland
A Aadd9 Bm7 E Aadd 9
Chords:
A E F#m Dm7 E/Ab B7 Aadd9 Bm7
- - - - - - - -
0 0 2 2 x 2 0 x
2 0 2 2 x 4 2 x
2 1 2 2 2 2 4 2
2 2 4 0 2 4 2 0
0 2 4 x 2 2 0 2
x 0 2 x 4 x x x
C#/E#:
e|----4----|
B|--2--2-2-|
G|--x---x--|
D|3--------|
A|---------|
E|---------|
AbM7*:
e|----7----|
B|--6--6-6-|
G|--6---6--|
D|6--------|
A|---------|
E|---------|
AbM7**:
e|---7-9-7----7-9-7-|
B|--6--------6------|
G|-6--------6-------|
D|6--------6--------|
A|------------------|
E|------------------|