Band: Blink 182 Song: Stay Together For the Kids Album: Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (haha great CD name!) Tabbed By: Brian H. Email: weezer090@hotmail.com If there was an award for the funniest band in the world, Blink 182 would have it. I've been to a couple of their shows, and they are hilarious! But, on the other hand, they have a soft, and serious side, which is good. This song is very true, it has great lyrics, and whenever they play it live, they don't crack jokes after it's over like in most other songs, but they very casually say "thanks a lot" after they finish it. This song is the equivalent/counterpart/follow-up to "Adam's Song" which was the VERY serious and mellow song about suicide, on "enema..." Anyways, hope you enjoyed your history lesson! :) This song is in standard tuning, seen them play it! have fun! CHORDS: (Some weird ones. Reminds me of Incubus' chords :) D5 - (x577xx) B* - (7x77xx) A* - (5x77xx) G5 - (35xxxx) F#5* - (25xxxx) INTRO: (Play this 2 times) E|------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|------------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---0---7-0---4-0-----0---7-0---4-0-----0---4-0---5-0-----2---4-5-4-2-0--| A|-5---5-----5-------4---4-----4-------2---2-----2-------0---0------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------------| VERSE 1: (These chords are weird, but this is what Tom picks for the verses) D5 B* E|---------------------------------------------------------------------- B|---------------------------------------------------------------------- G|-----7--------7--------7--------7-------7--------7--------7--------7-- D|-----7--------7--------7--------7-------7--------7--------7--------7-- A|-5-5----5-5-5----5-5-5----5-5-5--------------------------------------- E|------------------------------------7-7----7-7-7----7-7-7----7-7-7---- A* E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|-----7--------7--------7--------7---------9--------9--------6--------6--------7--| D|-----7--------7--------7--------7---------7--------7--------7--------7--------7--| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|-5-5----5-5-5----5-5-5----5-5-5-----5-5-5----5-5-5----5-5-5----5-5-5----5-5-5----| D5 B* It's hard to wake up, when the shades have been pulled shut. A* This house is haunted, it's so pathetic it makes no sense at all. D5 B* I'm ripe with things to say, the words rot and fall away. A* If this stupid poem could fix this home, I'd read it every day. CHORUS: (Here's how the chorus is played. All downstrokes) G5 F#5* E|---------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------| G|---------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------| A|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-| E|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-2-| (Obviously once you get to the end, you start over) :) G5 F#5* So here's your holiday. G5 F#5* Hope you, enjoy it this time, you gave it all away. G5 F#5* It was mine. So when you're dead and gone. G5 F#5* Will you, remember this night? 20 years now lost. It's not right. INTERLUDE: (Play the INTRO 2 times) E|------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|------------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---0---7-0---4-0-----0---7-0---4-0-----0---4-0---5-0-----2---4-5-4-2-0--| A|-5---5-----5-------4---4-----4-------2---2-----2-------0---0------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------------| VERSE 2: (Play like VERSE 1) Your anger hurts my ears, been runnin' strong for 7 years. Rather than fix the problems, they never solve them, it makes no sense at all. I see them every day, we get along so why can't they? If this is what he wants, and it's what she wants, then why's there so much pain? CHORUS: (Play like first CHORUS) So here's your holiday. Hope you, enjoy it this time, you gave it all away. It was mine. So when you're dead and gone. Will you, remember this night? 20 years now lost. It's not right. BRIDGE: (Bass just plays with a piano solo over the chords "D A G A") D A G A D A G A D A G A D A G A (Repeat that to make a total of 8 times) Then kick in the distortion and play the chorus line twice with no vocals. G5 F#5* G5 F#5* CHORUS/OUTRO: (Play like previous CHORUSES) G5 F#5* So here's your holiday. G5 F#5* Hope you, enjoy it this time, you gave it all away. G5 F#5* It was mine. So when you're dead and gone. G5 F#5* Will you, remember this night? 20 years now lost. It's not right. G5 F#5* G5 F#5* It's not right It's not riiiight, it's not right. G5 F#5* G5 F#5* G5 F#5* G5 F#5* Just continue playing those 2 chords, which are the chorus chords, and fade-out with them to play like the CD, but in concert they play it like 8 times and then end on a G5, and let that fade out. That's what my band does too. Anyways, hope you all enjoy this tab. This song isn't really that hard, if you're playing it for the first time, I guarantee you'll get the hang of it very quickly. Well, if you have questions, just email me at: weezer090@hotmail.com Thanks a lot guys! Later!