13 Years
As Recorded by Colorfinger in "Deep in the Heart of the Beast in the Sun"
Tabbed by Jason Pan (balaka@alphalink.com.au)

INTRO (bass)
e|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------|
E|--0--0--0--0--0--0--2--2--2--0--0--0--| x3


VERSE 1 (All chords in this verse are heavily palm muted)
E					F#			 A
I woke up sweating in the sun Sprawled across my big brother’s grave
E					 F#				A
Shaking and drunk with sleep I crawled to my feet and walked up into the
E					 F#					A
shade of a young elm tree that must have been planted since last we came
E			     F#			     A
Vicki my mom and me to clean the dirt from the plaque that says his
E		F#		E        F#(lighter muting)
name

VERSE 2 (All chords in this verse with lighter palm muting)
E					 F#                   A
Walking to my girlfriend’s car It came back down on me
E		    F#			                  A
Yeah, I guess I fell to my knees to keep from falling face first into the
E					   F#				  A
dream The vision that had had me twisting out under the afternoon sky
E					   F#				 A
I didn’t know it then but it was thirteen years to the day he died

E	B	E (x3 with no palm muting)

CHORUS (All chords in this chorus with no muting)
E				F#			A
He held his hand to me
E						F#
Like brothers we walked (we walked) through the colorless world of an
A
alcohol dream
E				     F#                                A
I talked for hours Trying to break through the silence that he held to me
E			    F#              A
Then he started away, turned and said Keep it up so you can die like me
E        A G    A  E        A  G          A
	     Yeah-eah            so you can die like me
E			G#	F#    E      A    G#    B
		   Go!

G#	F#    E      A    G#    B    (x3)


BRIDGE (Heavily Palm Muted)
G#            F#      E          A                     G#      B
Ever since my brother O.D’d I’ve drifted all over from town to town to town
G#            F#      E          A                 G#                B
Every place I go it’s always the same I keep doing junk I keep going down
G#           F#  E           A                      G#        B
Yeah my mama got religion my sisters gave up Man, I just gave up too
G#   F#   E                    A    G#   F#          E
		I just died inside	     Don't wanna die like George
G#   F#   E  					 A    G#
		Don’t wanna die like George
F#
Everyone says there's things to see,
F#                                   E
everyone’s pointing their fingers at me

CHORUS (Heavily Palm muted until after the first "He's gonna die like me" then play with no muting)
E                       F#                    A
I woke up driving after another blackout from another bad drug
E				          F#                  A
I can’t shake this hell That I’ve made for myself for every other life I
E                         F#                        A
touch See my sister’s son walk the line I walk He’s only sixteen
E                         F#                        A
If he don’t learn from my mistakes He’s gonna waste away,
                       E         A   G      A
He’s gonna die like me
E        A    G          A        E       A   G          A
              He’s gonna die like me
E        A    G          A        E       A   G          A
              He's gonna die like me          He's gonna die like me
E        A    G          A        E       A   G          A
              He's gonna die like me          He's gonna die like me
E        A    G          A        E       A   G          A
              He's gonna die like me          He's gonna die like me
E        A    G          A        E       A   G          A
              He's gonna die like me          He's gonna die like me
(Play an E to finish)

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