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Condtion Oakland
Jawbreaker
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Condition Oakland
This song is one of my favorites, it's pretty close to the actual thing too.
These are the chords.
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|--------11------------6-----------------14--------------16-----------------7------|
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Variant Ab Variant D# Variant B Variant C# Variant E
Anytime these chords are mentioned they are played as above, unless otherwise noted.
All other chords are regular power chords.
Introduction:
Play chords Ab D# Ab C# B
2nd time play chords Ab D# Ab D#
Verse:
F# G# A
I went down to the tracks
B(reg) C#(reg) G#
thinking what they might say to me.
F# G# A
But they just stared back
B(reg) C#(reg) G#
broken, trainless and black as night.
Then play Ab
verse:
Climbed out onto my roof, so I'd be a poet in the night.
Beat the walls of my room, I saw the big room that is this life.
Chorus:
G# E(reg)
This is my Condition,
E var. during this part the bass plays: E G# A B
Naked and hysterical, reaching to grab a hand that I just slapped back at.
G# E(reg)
This is my Condition
E var. as above.
Desperate, alone, without an excuse, tried to explain, Christ what's the use.
At the end of the chorus the guitar does a hammer on repeatedly,
on the 3rd string notes 8/9.
Intro:
Verse:
Read and I felt so small, some words keep speaking when you close the book.
Drank and just about smiled, then I remember us in that bed.
Put my ear to the door, I just heard hot rods and gunshots and sirens.
People kill me these days, they have keys in their eyes but they lock from the inside.
Chorus:
Outro:
play Ab then
3rd-|-----13/14----13----11--|
D#
Continue this for A while then: Ab(reg) C#(reg) B(reg) A
then repeat outro till he stops talking.