BETTER THAN EZRA
  

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Desperately Wanting by Better Than Ezra
(tabbed by randell@heinous.music.uiowa.edu)

Some of the lyrics are wrong, but close. :)

	Verse 1: (rhythm figure 1, clean)
e --1-----0--------3------------
B --1-----0h1p0----3------------
G --2-----2--------4------------
D --3-----2------5-5------------
A --3-----0------5-5------------
E --1------------3-3--3h5p3h5---
                         ^ (this part doesn't start until
                            the 3rd time you play it)

Past the road to your house
That you never called home
Where they turned out the lights
Though they say you'll never know

	Chorus (clean):
F		Am		
I remember running through the wet grass
G	    Csus2
Falling a step a behind
F		Am
Both of us never tiring
G		Csus2
Desperately wanting

	Verse 2 (r.f. 1, clean):
When they pumped out your guts
Filled you full of those pills
You were never quite right
Deserving all the chills

	Verse 3 (r.f. 1, distortion):
The say the worst is over
Kicked it over and ran
Then they asked what went wrong
When they turn you on again...
They turn you on again

Chorus (2x, distorted)

	Verse 4 (r.f. 1, clean):
Kick 'em right in the face
Make them wish they weren't born
And if they bring up your name
Wekk they'll say you won the war
 
	Verse 5 (r.f. 1, distortion):
Baby burst in the world
Never given a chance
Then they ask what when wrong
When you never had it right,
No, you never had it right...

Chorus (2x, distorted)

	Bridge (distorted):
D-C-G (2x)
D	   C		G		D
Ooo, the letters they have dropped off
	   C		  G		D
Though they say you got them all
	  C	    G
I finally figured out some 
C-C-C
Things you'll never know

	"Solo" (distorted):
e ----------------------------------x/\--
B ----------------------------------x/\--
G ----------------------------------x/\--
D ----------------------------------x/\--	  (4x)
A --------3----3h5-3-2---5--3--2--3-x/\--
E ---3-----------------3------------x/\--

	Verse 6 (r.f. 1, clean):
Take back your life
Let me inside
We'll find the door
If you care
If you care to anymore

	Chorus (4x, distorted, last two times with
              "Kevin Griffin la's & oh's" and "care")



Desperately Wanting
Better Than Ezra


The other posting of this is way off.

The correct chords are

F Am G repeated for the verses

and

F Am G C  repeated for the chorus


By: Sean Liddell

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:32:39 -0600
From: jamcmillan@DELTA.IS.TCU.EDU
Subject: Desperately Wanting

The tab file for Better than Ezra's "Desperately Wanting" is HORRIBLY
wrong.  The correct chord progression is F-A-G for the verse, and
F-A-G-C for the chorus.
From c692049@everest.cclabs.missouri.edu Thu Feb 13 16:47:50 1997
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:31:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Thomas Sellner 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: Better than Ezra, Desperately Wanting

This is just a more complete tab of what is already posted for Better then
Ezra's Desperately wanting.


F Am G  x 2 for the begining



throughout the song


F  Am  G  C


"Take back your life...." part

D  G 

it starts on D and switches to G and repeats



solo
the lower three strings

D-------0--------0-------   
A---3 3-- 3-2------3 -2 -3
E-3----------- 3---------          

Tom Sellner and Pat Handrahan the Papaya Monkeys


Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 19:01:04, -0500
From: MR MICAH B WEYER 

CHORDS: 'Desperately Wanting' by 'Better than Ezra'

***
To whom it may concern: There is a listing for this
song in your OLGA archive but I don't understand what
the guy is talking about (F C Cadd9???).  I'm not tring
to be mean but that isn't even close!
He obviously didn't put to much time into it
Plus he didn't include the lyrics.
***


This is the first single off the "Friction Baby" cd.
These are just the basic chords.  I don't have the 
album yet I just figured it out from hearing it on 
the radio all the time.

transcribed by Micah Weyer
send comments or corrections to (bxtq79a@prodigy.com)

Better than Ezra
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Desperately Wanting

 
F am G 
       Past the road to your house
F am G 
       That you never called home 
F am G
       Where they turned out the lights 
F am G      
       Though they say you'll never know 

(chorus)
F            C                         G 
I remember running through the wet grass 
              C   
And falling a step behind 
F           C     
Both of us never tiring and
G             C
Desperately Wanting 
 
When they pumped out your guts 
And filled you full of those pills 
You were never quite right 
Deserving all the chills 
They say the worst is over 
Kicked it over and ran 
Then they ask what went wrong 
When they turn you on again 
They turn you on again. 
 
Chorus: 
 
Kick them right in the face 
Make them wish they weren't born 
And if they bring up your name 
Well they'll say you won the war. 
Baby burst in the world 
Never given a chance 
Then they as what went wrong 
When you never had it right 

Oh the letters they have dropped off 
Though they say you got them all 
I finally figured out some things you'll never know.
Take back your life and let me inside 
We'll find the door if you care to anymore. 
 
I remember running through the wet grass 
and falling a step behind 
Both of us never tiring and
Desperately Wanting.