Down In The Basement chords by
Sloan

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Key: A major

Intro 1

Way down,

Verse 1
C C 
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way far underground
G G 
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We got started at the bottom
of the basement
We didn't stretch to come to a sound
We'd just play until we found
the proper placement
C C 
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And it was all right
G G 
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It was just the way we used to do it
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D D 
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But now the times have changed
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and all the questions too
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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Like why bother to pursue it

Verse 2
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For far too many, many years
I'd ask myself the same
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thing everyday
C C 
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What do I want and where should I  do
G G 
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C C 
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Is playing music just leading me astray
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I didn't think so
D D 
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And all my sisters convinced me
C C 
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that I should keep it up
Because it was embedded
G G 
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in my blood type, oh

Verse 3
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C C 
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G G 
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All that we needed was four tracks
and maybe some paint fumes
And the desire for creation was away
It always sounded good,
and we knew it would
We never dreamed that
one day it would pay
C C 
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And now we're slowly waking up
G G 
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I had the strangest dream
C C 
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D D 
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I  was drowning in a flooded studio
C C 
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coiled in cables and inputs
And I was coming apart at

Interlude 1

the seams

Forty tracks

Verse 4
G G 
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Forty mikes
Turn up the heaters and fire
C C 
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up the floodlights
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Because we're going to be
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G G 
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here for a long time
D D 
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But this place feels right
because this is our space
C C 
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F F 
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And we can do what we want when we
G G 
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need it and it's on our own dime

Verse 5
G G 
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Gm Gm 3
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And now I'm raising up  a
G G 
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ballet boy and a hockey girl
And I've a wife that I really love
Truly, dearly, completely,
and hopefully so
Somebody's watching over from above
C C 
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Just who, I  can't say
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C C 
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G G 
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I try to rationalize it in my own way
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These are the reasons that you do what
C C 
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you do and I  can be satisfied
With a life of less work and
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Poor me

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