Version: Studio
From the album: Continuum
Writer: John Mayer
Tuning: E - standard
(Don't know this tuning?)
Date released: 12 September 2006
Date posted: 08 September 2024, 14:09 (7 months ago)
Last updated: 08 September 2024, 14:09 (7 months ago)
Note: John uses a ton of embellishments in this song, you
could try to learn all by heart, or in the spirit of Jimi
Hendrix and John Mayer himself, learn to play the G-major
and G-minor scale and start learning to play embellishments
yourself! (P.S. I do the latter)
[Part 1]
(Play these chords with any fitting embellishments,
only one example is shown in brackets)
e|----------------------------------------------------------|
B|---3---------(3)-------(3)---5----------------------------|
G|---4--(4h5)--(4)--(4h5)(4)---5--------(5)-----(5)---------|
D|---5--(5)---------(5)--(5)---5------(5)-(5h7)---(5h7)-(5)-|
A|-----------------------------7--(5h7)-------------(5h7)---|
E|---3--(3)----(3)--(3)--(3)--------------------------------|
[Part 1s]
e|-------------------------------------|
B|----8-8-10b12-10b12~---8----8-8------|
G|-/9--------------------7h9--7-9--7---|
D|-----------------------7---------7h9-|
A|-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----8-8-10b12-10b12--10-10~-------------------|
G|-/9--------------------------------5/7/5--5---|
D|---------------------------------5-7/9/7--7~--|
A|-----------------------------5s7--------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|----8-8-10b12-10b12~------8----8-8-------------|
G|-/9-----------------------7h9--7-9--7---7------|
D|--------------------------7---------7h9-7-7----|
A|------------------------------------------7h9--|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
e|---------10--------------------------------|
B|----8-8----10b12--8-8~------10-------------|
G|-/9------------------------9------9~-------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|
[Part 2]
(Play arpeggiated)
e|---------------------------------|
B|----8--7-----7-----8-----8---7---|
G|----5--5-----5-----7-----7---5---|
D|----5--5-----4-----8-----8---4---|
A|-------------5-----------6---5---|
E|----5--5-----------6-------------|
(if x5457x is too hard to play, you can try 1091011xx)
[Solo] (from maikel meijer)
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|-10h12s15~--15s12p10-12~----10h12s17--15p12s10--12s8--|
G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|
e|-------19~--------17~-----------19-------17--|
B|-15-17------15-17---------15-17----15-17-----|
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|
e|-------19b~~(15)-----------------------------------------|
B|-15-17----------15~~-(12)-------15s17-----------13s15s13-|
G|-------------------------14s16~~------16s14---12---------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
[Lyrics]
(1, 1s)
(1) Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down
(2) Oh I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away
(1) Oh, gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down
(2) Oh twice as much ain't twice as good
And can't sustain like one half could
It's wanting more
That's gonna send me to my knees
(Solo)
(2) Oh twice as much ain't twice as good
And can't sustain like one half could
It's wanting more
That's gonna send me to my knees
(1) Oh gravity, stay the hell away from me
Oh gravity has taken better men than me (how can that be?)
(1) Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
C'mon keep me where the light is
C'mon keep me where the light is
C'mon keep me where keep me where the light is (oh, oh)
(fadeout)
Tabbed by: Wez
Edited by: Jasper Geijsberts
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