Up Against The Wall

Patti Rothberg - Up Against The Wall

>From the album `Between the 1 and the 9'

Transcribed by Visscher@alg.frg.eur.nl

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Chords used:

B: x2444x

Bsus4: x2445x

D: x5777x

A5: 577xxx

G5: 355xxx

F#5: 244xxx

F5: 133xxx

Tab notation legend:

h = hammer on

p = pull off

~ = vibrato

 

VERSE 1

He's trying hard to keep control and lead the way

He's finding all the perfect words to say to me

I'm climbing stairs with only one thing on my mind

To kick a habit of lost opportunity

It's only natural to want what doesn't come

I swiped away all of the pauns under my thumb

but like the ending of a one act play

the curtain closes and the actors run away and I'm

Up against the wall

wondering why I came at all

Yes I'm up against the wall

Trying to disappear.....

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|---------------2--h4p2---2-------|---------------------------------|

|-----0h2h3h4----------h4--h3~~~~-|-2---2---2-p0h2---h3p2p0h2p0-----| 2 times

|-2-------------------------------|-----------------------------2---|

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VERSE 2

I look around and watch the world as it goes by

Wondering, how small, how small am I?

He makes a gesture to distract me from a thought

He goes against most everything that I've been taught.

It's when you wake up and you can't go back to sleep

It's when you wonder 'bout the company you keep

It's when you wake up in the middle of your life

You just can't cut it with the dull end of a knife

Up against the wall

wondering why I came at all

Yes I'm up against the wall

Trying to disappear.....

VERSE 3

You know the way you're walking makes U seem larger than life.

As you turn the key to your door - you're turning me on.

And my mind spins HIGH above the world.

That's the way I feel.

It's only natural to want what doesn't come

I swiped away all of the pauns under my thumb

but like the ending of a one act play

the curtain closes and the actors run away and I'm

Up against the wall

wondering why I came at all

Yes I'm up against the wall

Trying to disappear.....

Trying to disappear.....

Trying to disappear.....^Z