The Brilliant Dance
Dashboard Confessional

Tuning: D A D D A d
(Actual tuning is an additional ? step down from this, but it sounds fine this way.)

I take very little credit for this tab.  I found it on dashtabs.com, and tweaked it slightly to what I think is correct.

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D -0?0?0?0?0?0?0?0?0?0?0?0-
D -4?4?4?4?2?2?2?2?5?5?5?5-
A -4?4?4?4?0?0?0?0?0?0?0?0-
D -0?0?0?0?2?2?2?2?5?5?5?5- (repeat)

Verse:
So this is odd
The painful realization that all has gone wrong and
Nobody cares at all
Nobody cares at all

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So you buried all you lover?s clothes and you

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D -5?5?5?4?4?4?2?2?2?0?0?0-
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Burned the letters lover wrote but it

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D -4?4?4?2?2?2?4?4?4?5?5?5-
A -2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2-
D -2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2-
Doesn?t make it any better

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D -4?4?4?0?0?0?4?4?4?5?5?5-
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Does it make it any better?  And the

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Plaster dented from your fist in the

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Hall where you had your first kiss re-

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A -----------------------------------------------------
D -4?4?4?2?2?2?4?4?4?2?2?2-
D -4?4?4?2?2?2?4?4?4?5?5?5-
A -2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2-
D -2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2-
Minds you that the memories will fade

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D -4?4?4?0?0?0?4?4?4?5?5?5-
A -5-----5-----5-----5----------
D -0-----0-----0-----0----------

Verse 2:
So this is strange
Our sidestepping has come to be a brilliant dance
Where nobody leads at all
Where nobody leads at all

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And the picture frames are facing down and the

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Ringing from this empty sound is

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A -2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2-
D -2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2-
Deafening and keeping you from

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D -4?4?4?0?0?0?4?4?4?5?5?5-
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Sleep						and

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Breathing is a foreign task and

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Thinking?s just too much to ask and you?re

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D -2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2?2-
Measuring your minutes by a


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Clock that?s blinking eights

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A -2-----2?2?2?4-----4?4?4?5-----5-5?5?7-----7?7?7-
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								Well

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This is incredible, starving, insatiable


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Yes, this is love for the first time	You?d

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Like to think that you were invincible, yeah well

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Weren?t we all once, before we felt loss for the

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First time?				Well, this is the

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Last time			This is the

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Last time					This is the

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Last time

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