G Love And Special Sauce

G Love And Special Sauce - This Aint Livin guitar tab

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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 1:21:24 -0400 (EDT)

From: DAVID PINIELLA

"this aint livin'" by G. Love and Special Sauce

from their self titled debut album

main intro and verse riff variation (in preverse and a bit in the

chorus)

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|-----8-----5-------6----3--|---------8--5-5--------6--3-------|

|-----7-----5-------5----3--|---5/(7)--------3/(5)-------------|

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^slight palm mute========^

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Interlude Chords:

(these are probably wrong, but they're as close as I can get 'em, and they

sound okay when played along to the CD.)

Gaug(no 3rd)

x x 5 0 4 3

Gadd6

x x 5 4 5 3

Fadd6

x x 3 2 3 1

Ddim(no 3rd)

x x x 2 3 4

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Lyrics

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(g. love vox)

this town's so hype it's got soul

as a Philly cat

I'm with the roll

and the swing of my things

how they work like clockwork

tick tock

tick tock

the time always lurking in your head

got to go to work and get fed

that man didnt eat but he goes to sleep

gets up at dawn not to see the sunrise

but because it's too damn cold outside

underneath the bridge they pump the city's bilge

into the alley they sweep the city's filth

the flowers wilt

the flowers wilt

dont tell me about no game

cos that is a man

and his family

the revolution family

look at the family

dig the family

they're living the wrong way

can't get nothing

dont get nothing all they wanted was

something like a job--mercy mercy

but its robbed--mercy mercy

and there's so manny street side

beggars and disabled veterans

glass-eyed and peddling

drunk and just meddling

you conclude its their fault

they like the street they must like the asphalt

but that is a man woman and children

the system has stalled shelter's home

it's not what i call it

i call it bad health

some say help themselves

yo if you gots it

every hundred people a dollar in change

every hundred people thats a dollar in change

this aint living

this aint living

oh no

[interlude]

(jasper vox)

You know its rough had enough of holding a

cup full of spare change

doctors diagnosed me as a

dome full of bad brains.

So, toe to toe with employers

cos they're telling me no.

Hooked on prescription drugs

so i stay broke-ah, I'd run away

but you cant run away from

yourself or your health so

I deal with the cards that I'm dealt

tweetle-leet-leet, the morning bird's sounding sweet

though I sleep on the streets

I have a feeling I'm free of societies'

hand picked hypocricy

mercy mercy-- dont give a damn for me

mercy mercy-- now what am i gonna eat?

peek through the window of a restaurant,

people eating caviar, fifty bucks on lunch,

a hand me down meal full of God knows what

put it away in my gut

quick and then I wonder why I'm sick

brick for brick I know the city like my handprint

just a pit in the gutter

of a skid row ditch but I'll survive

the pain lets me know that I'm alive

but I still feel that

this aint livin'

(g. love and jasper)

check my beat, dig my rhythm,

me belly full, but me hungry so me fill it.

once I start gaining the taxes start taking,

cos the government's perfected funk-fakin'

breaking me down striking me down

what goes around comes around but

I keep rising, see'n through the lies and

the surprise comes when I see myself, the music I felt, I'm on

this aint livin

this aint livin

oh no

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transcribed by dpinie01@servax.fiu.edu (david piniella)

comments/corrections/requests welcome

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"Intelligence is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth,

truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is best."

[Frank Zappa]

"I keep talking just for talking." [G. Love]

"...and--those who had a knack for it--lived happily ever after."

[Baron Von Munchausen]

I am me, these opinions not to be bought, sold, traded/exchanged or collected.

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