Relatively Easy
By Jason Isbell
Album: Southeastern (2013)
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
6/15/2014

I made this easy to play for the learning players. There are alot of Dsus2 and Dsus4 while in the
D chord hopefully everyone can figure out.


Capo 4

                 D
Are you havin' a long day
D                              G
Everyone you meet rubs you the wrong way
G                                D
Dirty city streets smell like an ashtray
D                                 G
Mornin' bells are ringing in your ear
                     D
Is your brother on a church kick
D                                  G
Seems like just a different kind of dopesick
G                          D 
Better off to teach a dog a card trick
    D                              G
And try to have a point and make it clear


Chorus 1:
Bm            Bm/A           G           G/F#
And you should know compared to people on a global scale
    Em             Em/F#      G
Our kind has had it relatively easy
Bm       Bm/A             G                 G/F# 
Here with you there's always something to look forward to
   Em               Em/F#      G     D  G
My angry heart beats relatively easy

         D
I lost a good friend
D                                   G
Christmas time when folks go off the deep end
    G                              D
His woman took the kids and he took Klonopin
 D                               G 
Enough to kill a man of twice his size
              Bm
Not for me to understand
  Bm                            G
Remember him when he was still a proud man
  G                                Bm
A vandal's smile, a baseball in his right hand
Bm                              G
Nothing but the blue sky in his eyes


Chorus 2:
Still, compared to those a stone's throw away from you
Our lives have both been relatively easy
Take a year and make a break, there ain't that much at stake
The answers could be relatively easy


Solo


Bridge:
Em                G
Watch that lucky man walk to work again
   D                                 A
He may not have a friend left in the world
Em              G  
See him walking home, again to sleep alone
  D                         A 
I step into a shop to buy a postcard for a girl


I broke the law, boys
Shooting out the windows of my loft, boys
When they picked me up I made a big noise
Everything to blame except my mind


Chorus 3:
And I should say I keep your picture with me every day
The evenings now are relatively easy
Here with you there's always something to look forward to
My lonely heart beats relatively easy

My lonely heart beats relatively easy