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The Drag
(Remembering Spongecake)

I'll admit that this isn't precise. It's the version that I've always played since I only ever played it in a single acoustic guitar setting, so there's some extra strumming to fill space. On the album it's much more of a plucked sound than a strummed sound. I was encouraged in my efforts to play this when I found that the "it's not sad" parts sounded reasonable when played in a manner akin to the main riff in the other popular 90's tune "Diz-Knee Land" (Dada)...the whole open-D-fretted-G thing...

Hear an awful attempted performance by Lethargy Tar-Tare...

Intro (INT)
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------------
G--10-10--x--9-----7--7--x--6----10-10---9--12---9----------------------
D--12-12--x-11-----9--9--x--7----12-12--11--14--11----------------------
A---0--0--x--0-----0--0--x--0-----0--0---0---0---0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------


Main Riff (A)
E------------0--------------0---------------------
B------------0--------------0---------------------
G--10-10--x--9-----7--7--x--6----10-10---9--12---9
D--12-12--x-11-----9--9--x--7----12-12--11--14--11
A---0--0--x--0-----0--0--x--0-----0--0---0---0---0
E-------------------------------------------------


Verse (B)
E----------------0   STRUM
B----------------0
G----------9-----9
D---------11----11
A----------0--0--0
E-----------------


Verse (C)
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
B--------------------------------------------------------------------17-17-17-15-14-17-15-14-17-15
G--14-14-14-16--16-16-16--14-14-14-16--16-16-16--14-14-14-16--16-16-------------------------------
D---0--0--0--0---0--0--0---0--0--0--0---0--0--0---0--0--0--0---0--0-------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Verse (D)
E------------0
B------------0
G--10-10--x--9
D--12-12--x-11
A---0--0--x--0
E-------------

(INT) - (A)
(B)
She doesn't care, if you don't want her around
She'll hang around you anyway
(C)
She doesn't dare, think any harder, no
She might lose her self-control
(A)
(B)
She says she wants me, "Wants you to what?" Wants me to touch her
She wants to feel me deep inside her skin, NO
(C)
That's a juvenile thought, 'cause I've already got a plot
And it's a plot that I can't fit her in
And it's not sad at all
(A)
(C)
It's not sad - it's not sad it's not sad
(A)
(B)
I tell her "Let's get drunk, so I can stand your face."
She goes ahead, she joins right in
(C)
I lock her out, I smoke her joints WOOP!
I laugh about her with my friends - a ha ha ha ha
(A)
(C)
It's not sad - it's not sad it's not sad
(A)
(B) (end with "for me to" repeating the chords, not the single notes)
I know she's trying hard to be my friend, but she's a loser and a flake
People tell me "Try and like her"
But I say there's just too much for me to hate.  
(D) x4
About that fate.  And I don't care what she thinks.
(C)
You know that I don't care if she cares, I don't care who cares,
I don't care if she cares, I don't care who cares,
You know that I don't, 
(D) x3
that I don't, that I don't
Care.