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I Am What I Am Not

Idlewild
Tab

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

Tabbed by Lee Mainwaring

Intro riff

e -2-------------2---------------------------------
B ---------2-0-0---------2-0-----------------------
G ---4-3-4---------4-3-4---------------------------

D -------------------------------------------------

(Verse 1): G#5 B5 E5 C#5 F#5

G#5

Coming places, collecting careless,

B5

Sentences say so i write them down,

E5

So i am more than.

C#5 F#5

And you shood to, do more everywhere.

G#5

Coming luck, you can surrender,

B5 E5

Its the only way to you to learn the alphabet,

C#5 F#5

Made up of words you never resist to quote.

Pre-Chorus: E5 B5 Bb5 G#5

Riff (I Think!)

D -6-8-6-8b-6-8-6-8b-6-------------

E5 B5 Bb5 G#5

If all this wisdom is true,

E5 B5 Bb5 G#5

Then i say it can really have come from you.

(Chorus)

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

B5 Bb5 G#5

There must be something more than,

Bb5 G#5 B5

If i'm just a thought, i'm not.

(Piano part)

B ---------12-
G -8-10-11----

G#5

Faster than your destination,

B5

Knowing where you really are,

E5

Its what you always do,

C#5 F#5

Or is it when you can,

G#5

Happiness didn't happen,

B5

Sooner than the sound,

E5

that calls to most of them mistakes,

C#5 F#5

that I taught you.

(Pre-Chorus)

E5 B5 Bb5 G#5

If all this wisdom is true,

E5 B5 Bb5 G#5

Then i say it can really have come from you.

(Chorus)

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

B5 Bb5 G#5

There must be something more than,

Bb5 G#5

i am what i am not.

B5 Bb5 G#5

If theres something more than.

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

B5 Bb5 G#5

There must be something more than,

Bb5 G#5 C#5 B5

If i am what i am not.

Solo

e ------------------------------------------

B -4-4-7-4-9-11-12-9--7-4-9-11-12-9---------

G ------------------------------------------

D ------------------------------------------

(Chorus)

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

B5 Bb5 G#5

There must be something more than,

Bb5 G#5

i am what i am not.

B5 Bb5 G#5

If theres something more than.

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

Bb5 G#5

I am what i am not,

B5 Bb5 G#5

There must be something more than,

Bb5 G#5 C#5 B5

If i am what i am not.

Finish slide from B5

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