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