Shameika

Verse Riff(played over Am6):
E|1-----2-----3-----4-----| 
B|-----|-----|-----|-----|  
G|-----|-----|-----|-----|  
D|-----|-----|----2|-----|  
A|----2| 4p2--|5p2--|5p2--| 
E|--3--|----3|-----|----3|  
E|5----|-----|-----|-----|  

[Verse 1]
Am6                     Am6
I used to walk down the streets

On my way to school
Am6                
Grinding my teeth to 
    Am6             Am6
a rhythm invisible
                             Am6   
I used my feet to crush dead leaves
                               Am6
 like they had fallen from trees
                       Am6
Just for me, just to be crash 
cymbals


[Pre-Chorus]
Ab
In class, I'd pass the time
Ab7
Drawing a slash for every time
    Abaug                          
Ddim
The second hand went by a group of 
five

Done twelve times was a minute


[Chorus]
   Eb                            
But Shameika said I had potential
Bb7 Eb

                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                                Am6
Shameika said I had potential


[Verse 2]
Am6                      Am6
I used to march down the windy, 
windy sidewalks
 Am6
Slapping my leg with a riding crop
Am6                           
Thinking it made me come off so 
       Am6
tough
                           Am6
I didn't smile, because a smile 
always seemed rehearsed
  Am6                              
I wasn't afraid of the bullies, and
 A
 that just made the bullies worse


[Pre-Chorus]
Ab
In class, I'd pass the time
Ab7
Drawing a slash for every time
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    Abaug                          
Ddim
The second hand went by a group of 
five

Done twelve times was a minute


[Chorus]
   Eb                            
But Shameika said I had potential
Bb7 Eb

                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Am6
Shameika said I had potential


[Bridge]
Am6                          Am6
Hurricane Gloria in excelsis deo
                          Am6
That's my bird in my tree
My dog and my man and my music is 
Am6
my holy trinity
Am6                          Am6
Hurricane Gloria in excelsis deo
                         Am6
That's my bird in my tree
My dog and my man and my music is 
Am6
my holy trinity


[Verse 3]
Am6                            
Tony told me he'd describe me as 
         Am6                 Am6
pissed off, funny, and warm
                          Am6
Sebastian said I'm a good man in a 
storm
Back then I didn't know what 
  Am6
potential meant
        Am6                        
And Shameika wasn't gentle and she 
Am6
wasn't my friend but
Ab                 Abmaj7        
She got through to me and I'll 
    Ab7           Ab6
never see her again
Ab                 Abmaj7        
She got through to me and I'll 
    Ab7           Ab6 Eb
never see her again

I'm pissed off, funny, and warm
                          Eb
I'm a good man in a storm
And when the fall is torrential, 
            Eb
I'll recall

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There is a chromatic descend of the 
Ab
note on the 4th string of the Ab 
chord.
That creates the extensions on the 
Ab chord.
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[Chorus]
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Eb  Am6
Shameika said I had potential


[Verse 3]
Am6                            
Tony told me he'd describe me as 
        Am6                   Am6
pissed off, funny, and warm
                           Am6
Sebastian said I'm a good man in a 
storm
Back then I didn't know what 
  Am6
potential meant
       Am6                         
But Shameika wasn't gentle and she 
Am6
wasn't my friend
Ab                 Abmaj7        
She got through to me and I'll 
    Ab7           Ab6
never see her again
Ab                 Abmaj7        
She got through to me and I'll 
    Ab7           Ab6 Eb
never see her again

I'm pissed off, funny, and warm
                          Eb
I'm a good man in a storm
And when the fall is torrential, 
Eb            Eb
I'll recall


[Chorus]
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential
                             Bb7 Eb
Shameika said I had potential