Dear Nora - "My Autobiography"
Track 16 from "Three States: Rarities 1997-2007" [Disc 1]

Tuning: Standard (EADGBE low to high)

(this one's a true story)
D                       A
 I wrote this one on my back
      G     A               Bm
I was under attack from the falling dusk
    A
Now it's a bust

     D                 A(sus4) (A)
What you see inside of me
      G            A           Bm
Isn't quite what I wrote in my autobiography
         A
But it's what you see

    D                        A(sus4) (A)
Now spring couldn't get much worse
        G        A              Bm
And the sun is a curse shooting frozen rays
A
In my face

    D                  A(sus4) (A)
And I'm left here all alone
       G          A          Bm
In the cold on my bed in the afternoon
      A            G         Gm6
While I compose my autobiography

The Chords:

   D
E|-2-|
B|-3-|
G|-2-|
D|-0-|
A|-x-|
E|-x-|

   A
E|-0-|
B|-2-|
G|-2-|
D|-2-|
A|-0-|
E|-x-|

   G
E|-3-|
B|-0-|
G|-0-|
D|-0-|
A|-2-|
E|-3-|

  Bm
E|-2-|
B|-3-|
G|-4-|
D|-4-|
A|-2-|
E|-x-|

  Gm6
E|-0-|
B|-3-|
G|-0-|
D|-0-|
A|-1-|
E|-3-|

(the lead part makes an Asus4 chord with the rhythm, though Katy never actually plays the full chord on guitar.
I think it sounds nice to play an Asus4, followed by an A major, at the beginnings of the verses [where marked in parentheses] to get the same sound as the recording with only one guitar)
 Asus4
E|-0-|
B|-3-|
G|-2-|
D|-2-|
A|-0-|
E|-x-|

Transcribed by jacob
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