Dont Lose Touch

Album: Searching For a Former Clarity
Guitars: distorted
Tuning: standard (EADGBE)
Tabbed by: Milo

Intro:
2 bars of bass then this:

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Verse 1:

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You're coming off kind of contrived and pretentious

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You're not saying anything we haven't heard before

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You're caught up in an arguement or are you so

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lost in modern art?  You will lose it

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all,                   and you will find again

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                                 Don't Lose

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   Touch                 Don't Lose

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   Touch



Verse 2:
All power chords, all downstrokes, 8 beats a bar. punk.

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SOS texted from a cell-phone, please tell me I'm not the only one

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that thinks we're taking ourselves too seriously

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Just a little too enamoured with inflated self purpose

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Talk is cheap, and it doesn't mean much

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Don't lose touch, Don't lose touch.



Chorus:
Play twice

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I'm losing Touch
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I'm losing Touch


Verse 3:

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Constant entertainment for our restless minds


Constant stimulation for our epic appetites,

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Is there something wrong with these songs?

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Maybe there's something wrong with the audience

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Manipulation in rock music, fucking nausea.


Chorus:

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I'm losing Touch
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I'm losing Touch

           G                   D~
I'm losing touch, And it's obvious




Song Order:

Intro
Verse 1
Verse 2
Chorus
Verse 3
Chorus