By The Throat

Album: Cuban Ballerina
Key: E (standard tuning)

chords used
e|--4---2---0---0---6--| 
b|--5---4---0---2---7--| 
g|--6---4---1---2---8--| 
d|--6---4---2---2---8--| 
a|--4---2---2---0---6--| 
e|----------0----------| 

    C#m B   E   A   Ebm

Verse: C#m, B, E, A, C#m, B, E (2 measures)
Bridge: A, B, C#m, Ebm
Chorus: E, B, A, B

Verse:
C#m                B
Feel, don't watch the mercury drop
E                             A
Things fell apart and then I turned and stopped and said
C#m         B                E
I can't go on anymore like this
Verse x2
Save me from the tired hums
The crooked stares of the broken ones
One by one, let's watch them all disappear
I used to climb up to the attic at night
I'd end up in the basement screaming
I'm floating above all of you now

little riff
e|--------------------------------------------------| 
b|--------------------------------------------------| 
g|--9-8-9-6-----------------------------------------| 
d|----------9-6-99999999-7777-66-4-9----------------| 
a|--------------------------------------9----7-7-7-7| 
e|--------------------------------------------------| 

Bridge:
A             B           C#m   Ebm
It feels like now they've got me by the throat
Chorus:
E                 B
You make it sound so sincere
A                      A
I never believe what I always hear
Chorus: x3
I never thought I'd see the day
They've got me by the throat
I'm force-fed all the answers
My paranoia spreads like cancer
I'm so far from all my problems now

C#m, B

E
So I packed what's left of me and I'm leaving
C#m                  B             E
These city walls are closing in on me
Verse:
Take me back before it all began
Before I'd run and before I cared
Sometimes my best just isn't enough

little riff number 2 (basically the same thing with a little lick at the end)
e|-------------------------------------------------------| 
b|----------------------------------------7h9p7----------| 
g|--9-8-9-6-------------------------------------9-9-9-9--| 
d|----------9-6-99999999-7777-66-4-9---------------------| 
a|--------------------------------------9----------------| 
e|-------------------------------------------------------| 

Bridge:
It feels like now they've got me by the throat

Chorus: x4
You make it sound so sincere
I never believe what I always hear
I never thought I'd see the day
They've got me by the throat
I'm force-fed all the answers
My paranoia just spreads like cancer
I'm so far from all my problems now

Palm mute: E

-: measures played %: pause
Break: E--A, E--B, E-%A

E      AE  BE  A      B      }x2
They've got me by the throat }

Verse:
All of the things that I've left behind
Have washed out to sea and soon comes
The day that a hard rain falls on me