tab: "easier" by glen phillips
solo acoustic version
transcribed by michael mazur



this entire song is one of those glen things that's impossible
to transcribe very well... lots of intricate left-hand muting
and right-hand picking... the best advice i can give people is
to just stay with the chord shapes and figure out an attack that
works for you.

Intro:


   Amadd9              G              F
|-----------x----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------1----------------x-----------------------------------|
|--------4--------0-------------0-----2--2--x--x-----------------|
|--------2-----x----------0-----------3--x--------3--2-----------|
|--0--0-------------------------------3-----------------3b(1/4)--|
|--------------------0h3-----------x--1--------------------------|


   Amadd9           G              F
|--------x------------------------------------------|
|--------1----------------x--------1--1--1--1--1----|
|-----4--------0-------------0-----2--0--0--0--0h2--|
|-----2-----x----------0-----------3--3--3--3--3----|
|--0-------------------------------3--3--3--3-------|
|-----------------0h3-----------x--1----------------|


   Amadd9              G              F
|-----------x----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------1----------------x-----------------------------------|
|--------4--------0-------------0-----2--2--x--x-----------------|
|--------2-----x----------0-----------3--x--------3--2-----------|
|--0--0-------------------------------3-----------------3b(1/4)--|
|--------------------0h3-----------x--1--------------------------|


   Amadd9           G              F
|--------x-------------------------------------------------|
|--------1----------------x--------1-----------------------|
|-----4--------0-------------0-----2-----x--x--------x-----|
|-----2-----x----------0-----------3--x-----------x--------|
|--0-------------------------------3-----------------------|
|-----------------0h3-----------x--1-----------1--------3--|


Verse:

Am        G             F
i was eighteen, so were you

           Am          G         F
i was that birkenstock geek rock dude

             Amadd9     G
you were the back-flip, doe-eyed

F
tree-climbing earth mama

Am        G         F
beautiful evergreen girl




Prechorus:

Csus4 - x3301x
G     - 32000x
Gsus4 - 32001x
G(2)  - 32003x
Fadd9 - xx3213
C(2)  - x32013

F   Csus4  Dm                   G
i never    thought that i could be

Gsus4   G(2)  Dm                         C
getting my    grey hairs with you beside me

Cadd9 C       G   Gsus4 G(2) Dm
and   there's something i'm  blind to

              Fadd9  C(2)
but you still see



Chorus:

Am7sus4 - x0203x 
Dmadd4  - x0303x
Amadd9  - x02410

       Dm                    Fadd9  C(2)
and it couldn't be better, i know

       Dm                   Fadd9  C(2)
and it shouldn't be easier, oh

                   Dm              Am7sus4  Dmadd4  Amadd9 (see below)
i should just stop waiting for the other    boot to fall


   Amadd9            G        F     (to verse)
|--------0--0-----------------------------------|
|--------1--1--------0--0-----------------------|
|--------4-----x--x--0--0-----2--x--------------|
|--------2-----------0--------3--------0--2--3--|
|--0--0--0--------------------3-----3-----------|
|--------------------3-----x--1-----------------|

Verse:


i want to be the toy in your cereal box
i want to be carter at your peace talks
i want to get almost too familiar
but still notice the way that you walk


Prechorus:

and if you said you were going away
i'd run on the tarmac
and i would lay down in front of the plane
just to get you to stay


Chorus:

'cause it couldn't be better, i know
and it shouldn't be easier, oh
i should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall


Bridge:

Am G F
C

C                  Am          Em
got everything i'd ever wanted here

                                  F
everything and then this constant fear

Am             Asus2   Am   Dm
sure i'm gonna lose it all

                     Am7sus4  Dmadd4
just waiting for the other    boot to fall



repeat intro simile


Prechorus:

and if you thought i could be replaced
i wouldn't just stop with an ear
i would cut off my whole fucking face
just to make my point clear


Chorus:

that it couldn't be better, i know
it shouldn't be easier, oh
i should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall
waiting for the other boot to fall


repeat Am G F until end