"The Truth" by Caedmon's Call
From "Intimate Portrait"
Words and music by Derek Webb
Copyright 1997 Cumbee Road Music ASCAP


Capo 2 in G (A), standard-tuned six-string acoustic, in a slow 3.

  __      --3--
 |  |     |   |)
 |  |  =  |   |   (i.e. down-beats are twice as long as up-beats)
x| x|    x|  x|


[intro]  Em7, C2, G 3X then finish by hammering the 1st string 0to2
and 0to3 on a C2

Count 6 ^ 1   2   3   4   5   6   1   2   3   4   5   6
   e-|---|-----------------------|-----------------------|
   b-|--3|-- tab under construction ---------------------|
   g-|--0|-----------------------|-----------------------|
   d-|---|------------0h2---0----|-----------------------|
   a-|---|------------3----------|-----------------------|
   e-|---|0----------------------|3-----------3-----2----|
          Em7........ C2......... G.................

020033 Em7 at first muffle the first string
x30033 C2 hammer your index finger on and back off of the
          4th string second fret to briefly form C9 x32033
320033 G then walk the bass down the 6th string 3,2,0 back to Em7


[verse 1]  Em7, C2, G, D/F#
I've been putting on and putting off too many people
And I'm getting old to live like an injured man
Ailment and unfilled prescription, like the nose on my face
Like a broken boat, a safety raft, and a love for the water
I just can't decide to sink or swim, it's me or them
Should I save myself or go back for the others

[bridge 1]  G, Em7, C2 with the 0h2 and 0h3
Maybe there's no gray and I was wrong to tell 'em so
And maybe all that i've to do was done a long time ago

[chorus]  G, C2, Em7, D, C2, G, Em7, D, C2, D, G
There was life before my life
There was provision before my need
There was redemption before my sin
For the sake of the world I thank the Lord
That the truth's not contingent on me

[verse 2]
I've been dressing up and dressing down for too many people
And I'm a little young to live like a troubled boy, a troubled soul
A fish out of water, because we're all just the same
We're all just as good and just as bad and just as distracted
By the corners of our eyes as our fathers were, and theirs before
And all those before them, and here I glance around

[bridge 2]
But with the way I stare you'd think I'd seen through a two-by-four
And with the way I walk you'd think I'd never seen grace before

[chorus]

[verse 3 = half-verse]
I've been putting up and putting down too many things
That I know nothing about, but I'm jealous of
Holding pride as tight as I can like she was my only daughter

[chorus]


020033 Em7
x30033 C2
320033 G
20003x D/F# (or maybe 20023x or 200233)


Transcribed at 4:05pm on 11/24/1997 by tstilwel@comp.uark.edu
More songs available at http://www.engr.uark.edu/~tks/tab/