So Beyond Me – Sloan

Tabbed by Adam Bishop

I first heard this song in September of 1999, before 
the album came out, because it had been released as a 
promotion on a CD of new music played on the University 
of Western Ontario’s radio station.  We got that CD in 
our orientation kits (I feel so old now), and of course 
I immediately tried to figure it out, but I couldn’t 
with my acoustic.  Naturally, it took me only the length 
of the song to figure it out on the electric...

However, there are still a lot of riffs played underneath 
the chords that I did not figure out.  But these are the 
basics.

F    – x-8-10-10-10-x
E    – x7999x
G    – 3554xx
Am   – x0221x
F(2) – 1332xx
C    - x3555x
Bb   - 6887xx
Eb   - x6888x
Ab   - 4667xx

F    E      G
Yet another thing that I didn't know 
Am                  F(2)
Why is it seemingly so beyond me 

G        F  E

G
I feel that we're on a roll 
         F         E       G           F
So now I feel it's time to rock 
G
Now that we're out of the hole 
           F       E        G
We're only running down the clock 

              C
You know that every so often 
      F(2)                 G
It so happens the planets align 
                  C
The paper said my moon's in Venus 
       F(2)           G
So I'm taking it as a sign 

F E   G
I for one feel that this is the time 
F     E G
Let's return to the scene of the crime 
F    E   G
Rock and roll is alive and alright 
F   E    G 
Let them know vis-à-vis classifieds 

   C
It should be understated 
          F(2)              G
But don't make it oversimplified 
          C
Like your eulogy related 
      F(2)             G
How I lived and then I died 

F     E     G
Yet another thing that I didn't know 
Am                  F(2)          G
Why is it seemingly so beyond me 
Am                  F(2)          G
Why is it seemingly so beyond me 

G        F  E

G
Dance with the creeps and the queens 
               F        E       G      F
The kings have all gone home to bed
G 
Gone is the American Dream 
                F          E     G
That would have gone right to my head 

         C
Cause we couldn't get accustomed 
       F(2)                     G
And we couldn't find a thing to wear 
    C
You underestimate us 
        F(2)              G
You can hate us for all I care 

F     E     G
Yet another thing that I didn't know 
Am                  F(2)
Why is it seemingly so

  C                    Bb 
I put a quarter in the record machine 
  Eb                    Ab
I thought I'd dedicated one to Jolene 
C                          Eb
But it was full of records I'd never seen 
    Ab                    Bb
The times change and it's so beyond me 

C        Bb        Eb        Ab
C        Eb        Ab        Bb
C    G

(segue to Don’t You Believe A Word)