A Decent Cup Of Tea

Album: Sleep Is For The Week

Instrument: 6 String Guitar

Tabbed by: Josh Seldis (*)

Notes:
This is the best i can do from ear, although i'm positive it's note-for-note..
The song is played on acoustic guitar, finger picked.
Standard tuning.

Intro
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VERSE
Probably best to work out the rhythm of the lyrics against the song.
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   There hadn't been a day when everything had turned out right,
   She called me up and asked me to come over in the night
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   To make her cups of tea and listen quietly as she starts
   To list the latest bunch of bastards who trampled on her
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   Heart

CHORUS
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   She summers by my seat,
   She winters without me
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   She cries into her tea, that she's
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   Secretly lonely, only,
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   What am i to do? It's obvious to me, She never seems to see.

VERSE 2
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   I see her in the nightclubs,
   I meet her in the bars,
   At rooftop after-parties,
   All crammed into friends cars
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   And we talk about the weather,
   And how she drowns her pain in drink,
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   And i nod, and never ever dare
   To tell her what i think.
CHORUS 2
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   She summers by my seat,
   She winters without me
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   She cries into her tea, that she's
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   Secretly lonely, only,

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   What am i to do? It's obvious to me, She never seems to see.

BRIDGE
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   That it's not about the days when everything has turned out right,
   It's more about the moments when she calls me in the night.
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   To make her cups of tea and wash the weary worries from her head,
   And then to draw the pain out slowly as i put her into bed.

END
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   And i slip this information into every conversation,
   She never seems to listen,
   She never seems to
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        See.