Atl chords by Butch Walker

SimplifiedEm · F · G · Am

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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G 
Born from
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hippies back in sixty nine
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G 
Am 
I was bored by 1992
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G 
I walked into a recruitment
Em 
office a year before that
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F 
They said, "Son,
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Am 
we've been waiting for you"

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Verse 2

Discharged from the Gulf War

the very same year

I came home with a carton or two

Of ci garettes and mix tapes and

bullets from a gun

That my dead best friend never did use

Verse 3
F 
Oh Atlanta,
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Em 
Am 
please need me like I needed you
F 
G 
Am 
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
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'Cause Atlanta,
G 
Em 
Am 
I'm falling like most people do
F 
G 
And I need all your ground to sur
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F 
vive
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Am 
F 
G 
Am 

Verse 4
F 
G 
Wasted and downtrodden,
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Am 
only in vain
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G 
Am 
I cried myself blind at the sight
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G 
Of the old shopping center
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Am 
where we used to ride
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G 
Am 
Now condos as sterile as I

Verse 5
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G 
So I bought me an old air stream
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Am 
for three thousand bucks
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G 
Am 
From a drug dealer I used to owe
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And I thought to myself
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Em 
Am 
as I slept off a high
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G 
Am 
The irony is starting to show
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Oh Atlanta,

Verse 6
G 
Em 
Am 
please need me like I needed you
F 
G 
Am 
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
F 
'Cause Atlanta,
G 
Em 
Am 
I'm falling like some people do
F 
G 
And I need all your ground to survive
Em 
F 
G 
Am 
F 
G 
Am 

Verse 7
F 
G 
Em 
Drove out to Asheville 'cause that's
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where you were
F 
Where you married into
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Am 
money and pills
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G 
Em 
And I wanted so bad to be
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good with you now
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G 
Am 
The fact is that you never will

Verse 8
F 
G 
'Cause some become lov
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Am 
ers because of the sex
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And some you know,
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Am 
they just become friends
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G 
Em 
Am 
In our case I just became bad at it all
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G 
I never got good at it again

Verse 9
Am 
G 
Oh  Atlanta,
F 
G 
please need me like I needed you
F 
G 
Am 
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
F 
'Cause Atlanta,
G 
Em 
Am 
I'm suffocating like some people do
F 
G 
And I need all your air to survive