Tab: "Goal" by Glen Phillips by Glen Phillips
Transcribed by michael mazur

Intro and verses, simile:

         C        G           Em       F
|--3--|--0-----------------|-----------------------|
|--3--|-----3--1--0--------|-----1--0-----------3--|
|--0--|--------------0-----|-----------2-----------|
|--2--|-----------------0--|--------------3--------|
|-----|--3-----------------|-----------3--------3--|
|--3--|-----------3--------|--0--------------------|


   C        Em          F
|--0-----------------|-----------------3--|
|-----3--1--0--------|-----------------3--|
|--------------0-----|-----------2-----0--|
|-----------------2--|--------3--------2--|
|--------------------|-----3--------------|
|-----------0--------|--1--------------3--|

   C            G         Em            F
my goal for the day is to get through a week

        C           Em       F
without once saying anything negative
to paint happy pictures and write happy songs
and not even complain a bit

Chorus:

   D/F#          E/G#                 Am       Am/G
|--------------|-------------------|--------------------|
|-----------3--|----------0--1--3--|--1-----------------|
|--------2-----|-------1-----------|-----2-----------2--|
|-----0--------|----2--------------|--------2-----2-----|
|--------------|-------------------|--0-----------------|
|--2-----------|/4-----------------|-----------3--------|


   D/F#                 G                   E/G#
|--------------------|--------------------|-------------------|
|-----------3--------|-----------3--------|----------0--1--3--|
|--------2-----2-----|--------0-----0-----|-------1-----------|
|-----0-----------0--|-----0-----------0--|----2--------------|
|--------------------|--------------------|-------------------|
|--2-----------------|--3-----------------|/4-----------------|


  Am        Am/G        F
|--------------------|-----------------3--|
|--1-----------------|-----------------3--|
|-----2-----------2--|-----------2-----0--|
|--------2-----2-----|--------3--------2--|
|--0-----------------|-----3--------------|
|-----------3--------|--1--------------3--|


   D/F#
so you could call me

E/G#
on the phone and say

Am         Am/G  D/F#
"there's a happy guy

                  G
he's got his shit together

       E/G#        Am      Am/G  F
i feel better just knowing he's alive"


Repeat Intro

Verse:

my plan for the year
is to stop laying blame
on the vicious and hateful snipes
who iujure and scorn me
attempt to destroy me
and presume they control my life

Chorus:

i want those bastards all to say
"now there's a happy guy
finally got his shit together
i like him better than anyone alive"


Bridge:

         C   Em    Am           F
and i'll win their trust, then

      C   Em  Am         Am/G  Bb
i can finally crush them in my hands


Verse:

my goal for the day is to not say a thing
if i can't say something nice