Artist: Brand New
Guitarist: Jesse Lacey/Vin Accardi
Song: Handcuffs
Album: The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Tabbed By: Lewis [lewis_mason21@hotmail.com]
I'm quite sure the timing will end up wrong in the bridge, but it's hard to work it out.
With the chords, you shoul dbe able to figure it out for yourself! I'm quite sure this
end up looking a mess when it's submitted, but you'll get the gist.
[Tuning: Standard - E,A,D,G]
G Aadd9 Bm
Id arrest you if I had handcuffs
G Aadd9 Bm
Id arrest you if I had the time
G Aadd9 Bm
Id throw you down in the backseat
Asus2/F# G
As if you'd committed a terrible crime
G Aadd9 Bm [x4]
G Aadd9 Bm
I'd break in a town's worth of houses
G Aadd9 Bm
And rob whole families blind
G Aadd9 Bm
Id do it to you like you'd do it to me
Asus2/F# G
If you knew you would get away fine
G Aadd9 Bm
Id drown all these crying babies
G Aadd9 Bm
If I knew that their mothers wouldnt cry
G Aadd9 Bm
Id hold them down and Id squeeze real soft
Asus2/F# G Aadd9
And let a piece of myself die
G/D Dadd11
Its hard to be the better man
Em7/B
When you forget youre trying
G Asus2/F# G Aadd9 G
Its hard to be the better man
G Aadd9 Bm
Id arrest you if I had handcuffs
G Aadd9 Bm
Id arrest you if I had the time
G Aadd9 Bm
Id wait for you outside the courtroom
Asus2/F# G
And taunt you when all your appeals were declined
G Aadd9 Bm
Id drive my car off of a bridge
G Aadd9 Bm
If I knew that you werent inside
G Aadd9 Bm
With the pedal to the floor, who could ask for a more
Asus2/F# G Aadd9
Fantastic way to kill some time
B5 Bm7/G
You could lay on your back and be beaten
D5/B
You could put up your fists and fight
You could try and be way off
G/D Dadd11
Its hard to be the better man
Em7/B
When you forget youre trying
G D/F# Em D/F#
Its hard to be the better man
When youre still lying
G/D Dadd11
Its hard to be the better man
Em7/B
When you forget youre trying
G Dadd11/F# Em Dadd11/F#
Its hard to be the better man
G Dadd11/F# Em Dadd11/F#
When youre still lying
G Dadd11/F# Em Dadd11/F#
Youre still lying
B5 F#5 G5
