Not Your Savior

Not Your Savior – Joey Cape (acoustic version)

From the album; Joey Cape and Tony Sly acoustic

Standard tuning : EADGBe

Note that there’s a little variation in the G chord : 3-2-0-0-3-0

Intro(2x) C Em F G

e|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|

B|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|

G|-12(3x)-----12(3x)------12(2x)------|-12(3x)-----12(3x)-----12(2x)-----|

D|-------10(3x)-----10(3x)------10(2x)|-------9(3x)------9(3x)------9(2x)|

A|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|

E|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|

e|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|

B|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|

G|-10(3x)-----10(3x)-----10(2x)-----|-12(3x)-----12(3x)-----12(2x)-----|

D|-------7(3x)------7(3x)------7(2x)|-------9(3x)------9(3x)------9(2x)|

A|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|

E|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|

Verse 1 :

C F C Cadd9 C Cadd9 Am

Unlucky seventeen, already handed plans for the future

C F G C

Glamour obsessed, told how to dress, and shown how to think

F C Cadd9 C Cadd9 Am

And I don't have a job, but I can show you how to be a slob

C F G

So many days, wasted and glazed

C Cadd9 F

Sometimes I laugh aloud as I think about,

C D

You asking me "Please can you help?"

F

Can't help my self

Chorus 1 :

G C G

I'm not your savior, I'm not who you want me to be

F G C

A cowardly mistake I've made so many times before, refusing to break

Em F

Cut my losses ties them with you, like a good boy I'll pretend

Fm C Cadd9 Am G F G C

And promise not to do it again

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

G|---9 -------9-7--------------------------------------------------|

D|-----------------9---10---9--------------------------------------|

A|------------------------------10---7---10-------------8---7------|

E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

Verse 2 :

F C Cadd9 C Cadd9 Am

Do you remember when, life was so simple and permanent?

C F G C

Everyone's changed, "Everyone's cool", Everyone sucks

Cadd9 F C D

But I can't seem to complain, Exciting and new is just not there

F

You're getting scared

Chorus 2 :

G C G

I'm not your savior, never thought I was anyway

F G

I'm a void with empty promises that backs out late

C Em

Never said I'd change, taking back the words that we spoke

F Fm C

Like a fuel tank running dry, you'll believe it when I choke

Em F G C

you'll believe it when I choke

Em F G C Em F G C .....(Same pattern as the intro for both guitars and it goes on and on

fading out!)

P.S. I’m still beginning at writing tabs so do not hesitate correcting it!