Everclear – I Will Buy You A New Life
170 bpm 4/4 Strumming
[So Much for the Afterglow 1997]
Intro
G *^ G G *^ G G *^ G G *^ G
Verse 1
G Bm
Here is the money that I owe you…
G Bm
Yes you can pay the bills…
G Bm
I will give you more
C Em
when I-iii get paid again…
G Bm
I hate those people who love to tell
G Bm
you… “Money is the root of all that kills…”
G Bm
They have never been poor…
C ^ C
They have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas…
Bridge
G *^ G G *^ G
Yea-aaa… Ooo-ooo I know we will
G *^ G G *^ G
never look back… Yea-aaa…
Verse 2
G Bm
You say you wake up crying…
G Bm
Yes and you don’t know why…
G Bm
You get up and you go lay down
C Em
inside my baby’s room…
G Bm
Yea I guess I’m doing okay…
G Bm
I moved in with the strangest guy…
G Bm
Can you believe he actually
C ^ C
thinks that I am really alive…
Chorus
G B7 Em C
I will buy you a garden… where your flowers can bloom…
G B7 Em C
I will buy you a new car… Perfect shiny and new…
G B7 Em C
I will buy you that big house… Way up in the West Hills…
G B7 C C
I will buy you a new-www life…
Interlude
G G G * G
Yes I will…
Verse 3
G Bm
Yes I know all about that other guy…
G Bm
The handsome man with athletic thighs…
G Bm
I know all about the time before…
C Em
with that obsessive little rich boy…
G Bm
They might make you think you’re
G Bm
happy… Yea maybe for a minute or two…
G Bm
They can’t make you laugh…
C C
No they can’t make you feel the way that I do…
Chorus
G B7 Em C
I will buy you a garden… where your flowers can bloom…
G B7 Em C
I will buy you a new car… Perfect shiny and new…
G B7 Em C
I will buy you that big house… Way up in the West Hills…
G B7 C C
I will buy you a new-www life…
Middle 8
G B7 C C
I will buy you a new-www life… Oh-hhh…
G G G G
Yeah-hhh… Uh-hhh I know we can
G G G G
never look back… Yeah-hhh… No-ooo…
G G
Oh… Will you please let me
G G
stay the night… Will you please let me
G G G G
stay the night… No one will ever know…
Chorus (Softly)
G B7 Em C
I will buy you a garden… where your flowers can bloom…
G B7 Em C
I will buy you a new car… Perfect shiny and new…
G B7 Em C
I will buy you that big house… Way up in the West Hills…
G B7 C C
I will buy you a new-www life…
Chorus
G B7 Em C
I will buy you a garden… where your flowers can bloom…
G B7 Em C
I will buy you a new car… Perfect shiny and new…
G B7 Em C
I will buy you that big house… Way up in the West Hills…
G B7 C C
I will buy you a new-www life…
Outro (fade ending)
G B7 C C
I will buy you a new-www life…
G B7 C C
I will buy you a new-www life…
G B7 C C * G
I will buy you a new-www life…