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Song: Perfect Blue Buildings
Artist: Counting Crows
Album: August and Everything After
Tabbed by: Ken McLeod (ken@cloudbusting.apple.com)

(NB You will notice that some lines in some verses have an Am 
at the end   of them, and others don't. A general guide is, 
if the words stop on    the Bb chord, then stay on Bb, and 
don't play Am)Intro pattern (repeat 2x)

****also play at end of first chorus   

             Dm
E|--------------------1---------|    
B|------------------3---3----3--|
G|---------------2---------2----|
D|--0-(let ring)----------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|
Dm            C                Bb     Am
Just down the street from your hotel, baby
Dm        C              Bb
I stay at home with my disease
Dm             C          Bb      Am
And ain't this position familiar, darling
Dm                C            Bb
Well, all monkeys do what they see
Gm                        Bb
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
Down on Virginia and La Loma
Where I got friends who'll care for me
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
I got an attitude of need

Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

CHORUS:    F         C            Gm    
     Asleep in perfect blue buildings    
F          C           Gm    
Beside the green apple sea    
F              C       Gm       Bb    
Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby    
F             C     Bb        
   
Try to keep myself away from    | me       | (myself and) me
It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
It doesn't get much worse than this
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
of these lives which are completely meaningless
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
(CHORUS)INSTRUMENTAL:   (each chord is held for a bar)
F           C           Gm           
Bb      F           C           Gm           Bb      
I got bones beneath my skin, and mister...
There's a skeleton in every man's house
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
There's a dead man trying to get out
Please help me stay awake, I'm falling...
(CHORUS) x 3