Elliott Murphy - The Loser

      Song:           The Loser
Artist:         Elliott Murphy
Album:          12 (1990)
Tabbed by:      Javier de la Fuente
The whole song played with arpeggios

[Intro arpeggios]
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B|--------0-----0-----0-----0------3------3-----3---------------|
G|-------0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0----2-2----2-2---2-2---0--2--0----|
D|-------------------------------0------2-----4-----------------|  x4
A|------------0-----2-----4-------------------------------------|
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[Verse]
E                     Bm    D                  A
I was looking for the answer as in some fairy tale 
E                       Bm      D                              A
Somebody said there's a man here and all his life he has just failed
E                        Bm    D              A
You only learn from the losers, of this I am sure
E                        Bm
And as I walked down his old street 
             D                           A
I heard him talking as he walked in the door

[Chorus]
G   G/B   G        G/B      D       E9sus4   D/F#    Dadd4   D   
How do I know that I'm not dreaming, 
G   G/B   G        G/B      D       E9sus4   D/F# 
how do I know this is for real
            A                    Bm
Or that my destiny has not been writen 
             A                Bm A G             Bm A G  
And that my fate has not been sealed, . . . been sealed

[Verse]
E                         Bm                D                      A
I said my life is like a straight line, but no that's not true at all
E                           Bm                D                 A
It's more like a series of accidents and into each situation I fall
E                        Bm                 D                  A
Man I get some tired of thinking I'm like a dog whose watching TV
E                           Bm
'Cause I know something is happening 
       D                             A
But I don't know what's happening to me

[Chorus]
G    G/B G          G/B      D       E9sus4   D/F#    Dadd4   D       
Take one thing that you are sure of, 
D       D   G   G/B       G            G/B    D  E9sus4  D/F#  Dadd4 D  
You can be sure that one thing will be taken away
                 A                     Bm 
Everything's on loan here there are no owners
                A          Bm A G            Bm A G  
It all came to pass not to stay . . . not to stay

[Instrumental]
F#m A  F#m A  D  E9sus4  D/F# D  F#m A  F#m A  D  E9sus4  D/F# D
Bm     C#     D     A     C#m   C#
F#m G#m A     D     A     C#m   C#     D     C#     

[Chorus]
G   G/B   G    G/B              D       E9sus4   D/F#    Dadd4   D   
Try to accept that you'll keep searching 
D           G    G/B      G      G/B           D    E9sus4   D/F# 
That's the thing you will do for most of your life
             A                      Bm
And all the answers they just don't exist here 
               A                          Bm A G               Bm A G  
Here lies the question and they rule your life . . . rule your life

[Outro]
A   G   D        
G   A   G   A   D        
G           D       
G   A   G   A   D        G