eels - novocaine for the soul
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Perhaps not their greatest song, but one hell of an anthem, pump up the distortion and 
use a lot of extreme dynamics (loud an soft) and contrast, also sound good on an acoustic 
just strummed Like E did live on a few shows.

Capo - 9th fret

Intro, play Bb (note, not chord) over and over on the bass and
Just pick in the chords

||:  E    Am   E    Am   :||

E         Am      
  Life is hard 
E           Am
  and so am I
E            Am
  you better give me something
E           Am 
  so I dont die 
  

Break out into Distortion

E     Am   E        Am  
  Novocaine for the soul
D      A            E      
   before I sputter out  

repeat x 2

Life is white and I am black
Jesus and his lawyer
are coming back 
Oh my darling will you be here
before I sputter out x3

Dead stop

G   D   A   E

G           D
Guess who's living here
A                E
with the great undead
G             D                A               E
this paint by number's life is fuckin' with my head
         G  (hold a standard G and pick up and down the bottom 3 strings)
once again 

Solo over E and Am  (Song is in C# if your in an improvising kind of mood, on guitar 
or sounds good on a piano with lots of chromatics)

Life is good and I feel great
'cause mother says I was
a great mistake 

Novovaine for the soul
you better give me something
to fill the hole
before I sputter out (repeat)

If you're interested, the riff that comes after 'before I sputter out' is played, 
I think on a pipe organ and is    F     F#     F      B      So I add it in as an Esus 
4 on the guitar   

eg.

D      A             E      E  Esus4  E    D  
    before I sputter out  
       A             E      
    before I sputter out