+Going Through The Motions+

Transciption by Jeff Burke, additions, chords and corrections by me.

Buffy's opening song is played with an orchestra, so the chords are pretty hard on guitar. I'll just tab out the barre chords, and you can assume the rest are open formations; or you can play them as barre chords if you like. I'm really not sure about Fadd4, but it was in the transciption I'm basing this on, so I'm keeping it but using a different formation of Fsus4 in its place.

F     1 3 3 2 1 1
F7    1 3 1 2 1 1
Eb    7 7 9 9 9 7
Cm    3 3 5 5 4 3
Ab    5 7 7 6 5 5
Bb    2 2 4 4 4 2
Db    4 4 6 6 6 4
F#m   2 4 4 2 2 2
Fsus4 1 1 3 3 1 1
Fadd4 1 3 3 3 1 1 ?
 

Intro
|F |F |F |F |F |F |F |F    C

verse 1
|F                                |F7
Every single night, the same arrangement.
|Dm                        |Eb      Cm
I go out and fight the fight.
|F                             |F7
Still I always feel the strange estrangement.
|Ab                                            | G
Nothing here is real,      nothing here is right.

|Dm                                 |F
I've been making shows of trading blows,
      |Dm                |A
Just hoping no one knows
                      |Bb                       |F
That I've been going through the motions,
|Db                      |C
Walking through the part.
|Bb                     |F                   |Eb | Eb
Nothing seems to penetrate my   heart.

verse 2
|F                                |F7
 I was always brave and kind of righteous.
|Dm                        |Eb
Now I find I'm wavering.
|F
Crawl out of your grave,
        |F7
You'll find this fight just
|Ab
Doesn't mean a thing.
             |G
She ain't got that swing.
|F#m
Thanks for noticing.

|Dm                               |F
She does pretty well with fiends from hell,
     |Dm              |A
But lately we can tell
                     |Bb                        |F
That she's just going through the motions.
|Db           |C
Faking it somehow.
|Bb                 |F                         |Eb  | Eb
She's not even half the girl she...   oww

bridge
|Dm             |G
Will I stay this way forever?
|Dm                          |G
Sleepwalk through my life's endeavor?
|Dm             |G
How can I repay
                  |Dm             |Eb   |Eb
Whatever.  I don't want to be

Coda
|Bb                      |F
Going through the motions,
|Db             | C
Losing all my  drive.
|Bb           |F
I can't even see
|Bb                |F
If this is really me.
|Bb           Gm   | Cm  |C7
And I just wanna  be ____
| Bb | F | Db | C
a-live

|F Fadd4  |Fadd4 |Fsus4 |Fsus4 |F  | F  |F  ||
 
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