Author/Artist: Pearl Jam
Title: Nothingman (Chords)
Album: Vitalogy
Transcribed by: Evan Cowan
Email: evan@giventowail.com
Intro:
F Dm C Dm Bb5 (x2)
Verse:
F Dm C Dm Bb5
Once divided, nothing left to subtract
F Dm C Dm Bb5
Some words when spoken can't be taken back
F Dm C Dm Bb5
Walks on his own with thoughts he can't help thinking
F Dm C Dm Bb5 Dm
Future's above, but in the past he's slow and sinking
Bb5 C Bb5 A5 Bb5 C
Caught a bolt of lightning, cursed the day he let it go
Chorus:
F Bb5 C
Nothingman, nothingman
F Bb5 C
Isn't it something? Nothingman
2nd Verse:
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F Dm C Dm Bb5
She once believed in every story he had to tell
F Dm C Dm Bb5
One day she stiffened, took the other side
F Dm C Dm Bb5
Empty stares from each corner of a shared prison cell
F Dm C Dm Bb5 Dm
One just escapes, one's left inside the well
Bb5 C Bb5 A5 Bb5 C
And he who forgets will be destined to remember oh oh oh
Chorus:
F Bb5 C
Nothingman, nothingman
F Bb5 C
Isn't it something? Nothingman
Bridge:
Dm Bb5 C
Oh, she don't want him (she don't want him)
Bb5 Dm Bb5 C Dm
Oh, she won't feed him, after he's flown away
Bb5 A5 Bb5
Oh, into the sun, yeah into the sun
C
Burn, burn, burn burn
Chorus:
F Bb5 C
Nothingman, nothingman
F Bb5 C
Isn't it something? Nothingman
F Bb5 C
Nothingman, nothingman
F Bb5 C
Coulda been something, nothingman
Outro:
F Bb5 F Bb5 F Bb5 F
And if you didn't know, Bb5 and A5 are just another way of saying
Bb and A power chords, like so:
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--1---0---
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Bb5 A5
