BABBLE ON by GUARDIAN
from the album "BOTTLE ROCKET"
Music by Jamie Rowe, Words by Tony Palacios and Steve Taylor

Published ?1997 by Promiseland Music (SESAC)/Jadatoka Music (SESAC)
Digital Bros.(BMI)/Dayspring Music (BMI) ADM. By Word INC and Soylent Tunes(SESAC)
Warner Sojourner(SESAC) ADM. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.
Transcribed by Scott Hughes (It ain't perfect but close enough)

Tune Guitar one half step down.

D			     Dadd9
What was that crack I made?  Swung a hammer wrapped in suede
Aadd9	A    Aadd9	  A       Aadd9               A     Aadd9  A
Like a    lick from a lunatic beatnick,  knock you senseless as I babble on
D			     Dadd9
I strike between the lines,  hissing words in serpentine
Aadd9	A  Aadd9	  A   Aadd9         A   Aadd9	   A
Back----biter with an appetite,  I coil and rattle, then I babble on

BRIDGE
C	      D	           A              Dadd9
Everytime I add a line, I wish I could subtract
C
Too late too take it back

PLAY CHORDS FROM FIRST TWO LINES OF VERSE

D		          Dadd9
Conversations in veneer,  Sand?em down they?re insincere
Aadd9	A   Aadd9	         A   Aadd9          A   Aadd9      A
Off     guard, better check the cue card,  Got ghostwriters for my babble on
D		  Dadd9
So I communicate, Intending to humiliate
Aadd9   A   Aadd9	       A   Aadd9          A   Aadd9	 A
On      attack with a cardiac comeback, You take shelter, I take babble on

BRIDGE

CHORUS
E                 D       Dadd9     A
And if talk is cheap, the price is high
	       D   Dadd9    E
When I let another arrow   fly
E             D       Dadd9    A
Better to be seen and never   heard
	       D       Dadd9   E
Than to babble on with every  word

PLAY CHORDS FROM ALL OF VERSE

D			     Dadd9
What was that crack I made?  File a claim with medicaid
Aadd9   A   Aadd9	  A   Aadd9          A   Aadd9      A
All my rumors spread like tumors, tale and tattle, rant and rattle on
D	                Dadd9
Ugly as the sun it is,  Sold out to the slander biz
Aadd9   A   Aadd9	   A   Aadd9               A   Aadd9    A
Gotta   keep the tongue in line, Even fools seems wiser off the babble on


BRIDGE

CHORUS

E               D          Dadd9   A                  D          Dadd9    E
And if talk is cheap, then why the thrill in an idle tongue that fires at will?
E            D         Dadd9   A                    D      Dadd9  A
Better to be silent and be   strong, Than to let my babble babble on
A              D      Dadd9  A                  Dsus
Than to let my babble babble on, than to babble on

PLAY CHORDS FROM FULL VERSE AND A HALF, THEN FINISH ON E.