I COULD HAVE LIED - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Intro:  Gtr 1. (Acoustic)
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Verse 1:
  There must be something in the way I feel that she don't want me to
feel
Fig. 1 x2

  Stares she bares a-cut me - I don't care you see, so what if I
plead?
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|-0h2---2------2----------2----------0--------5--------|
|------------------------------------------3----3------| (Fill 1)

Fig. 1

Prechorus:
  I can never change just what I feel, my face'll never show what is
not real
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|-4----4-4-7---7-7--7-7-7--0----0-0--0---0------|
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|-4----4-4-7---7-7--7-7-7--2----2-2--5---5------|
|-2----2-2-2---5-5--5-5-5--0----0-0--5----------|
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Fill 1 with Fill 2 (Guitar 2):
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Fig. 1
 
Verse 2:
  A mountain never seems to have a need to speak a look that shares so
many see
Fig 1. x4, 2nd time fill:  1      2      3      4
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  The sweetest feeling I got from you the things I said to* you were
true
						*play open B string

Prechorus, with ending:                     harmonics
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|-0h2---2------2---2------2---2-----0--------5--------|
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Chorus:
  I could have lied I'm such a fool, my eyes could never never keep
their cool
  Showed her and I told her how she struck me but I'm fucked up now..
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|-8---8-8-8---8-12---12-12---12-12-12-10---10-10-10--8----8----8----|
|-9---9-9-9---9-12---12-12---12-12-12-11---11-11-11--9----9----9----|
|-9---9-9-9---9-12---12-12---12-12-12-12---12-12-12--10---10---10---|
|-7-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-0-----------------------------------------------------------------| (Fig. 2) x2

Solo:
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|-9^10-8--7------------------------7------7------7---7-10^12---10---7-10-10p7--|
|------------7--7--9-7-9-7--7-9^11---9^11---9^11-------------------------------|
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|-7h8p7---7--------------8-7-787---------7-----------------------|
|-------9---7~-------------------7-----7---7---------------------|
|-------------9-7-9--9-9-----------9---------9-9--9-7-9----------|
|-------------------------------------------------------9--10----|
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|------------10-12------------------------15---------------|
|-----7-9/11---------------------------------14------------|
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|-----------------7-7--7-9-5--4/5\4\2p0---|
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Verse 3:
  But now she gone, yes she gone away, a soulful song there would not
stay
Fig. 1 x2
  'Cos see she hides 'cos she is scared but I don't care I won't be
spared
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|-0h2---2------2---2---2----------------5------------|
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Fig. 1

Chorus

Repeat chorus with outro solo:
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