By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers

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[Intro]
  

[Chorus]
             
Standing in li

              
ne to see the 


show tonight
              
And there's a 


light on, heav

y glow
            
By the way I t

              
ried to say I'

  
d be there, wa

iting for
             
Dani the girl 

           
is singing son

gs to me
            
Beneath the ma

rquee, overloa

d

[Verse 1]***

Steak knife

Card Shark

Con job

Boot cut


Skin that flic

k, she's such 

a little DJ

Get there quic

k by street bu

t not the free

way

Turn that tric

k to make a li

ttle leeway
   
Beat that nic 

but not the wa

y that we play


Dog town

Blood bath

Rib cage

Soft tail

[Chorus]
             
Standing in li

              
ne to see the 


show tonight
              
And there's a 


light on, heav

y glow
            
By the way I t

              
ried to say I'

          
d be there, wa

iting for

[Verse 2]***

Black jack

Dope dick
  
Pawn shop

Quick pick


Kiss that dyke

, I know you w

ant to hold on

e

Not on strike,

 but I'm about

 to bowl one

Bite that mic,

 I know you ne

ver stole one

Girls that lik

e a story so I

 told one


Song bird

Main line

Cash back

Hard top

[Chorus]
             
Standing in li

              
ne to see the 


show tonight
              
And there's a 


light on, heav

y glow
            
By the way I t

              
ried to say I'

  
d be there, wa

iting for
             
Dani the girl 

           
is singing son

gs to me
            
Beneath the ma

rquee... of he

r soul
            
By the way I t

              
ried to say I'

  
d be there, wa

iting for

[Interlude]***

Ooh ahh, 'gues

s you never me

ant it

Ooh ahh, 'gues

s you never me

ant it

Ooh ahh, 'gues

s you never me

ant it

Ooh ahh, 'gues

s you never me

ant it

Ooh ahh, 'gues

s you never me

ant it

Ooh ahh, 'gues

s you never me

ant it

Ooh ahh, 'gues

s you never me

ant it

Ohh ahh

[Chorus]
             
Standing in li

              
ne to see the 


show tonight
              
And there's a 


light on, heav

y glow
            
By the way I t

              
ried to say I'

          
d be there, wa

iting for
             
Dani the girl 

           
is singing son

gs to me
            
Beneath the ma

rquee, of her 

soul
            
By the way I t

              
ried to say I 

        
know you, from

 before

[Outro]
             
Standing in li

              
ne to see the 


show tonight
              
And there's a 

 
light on, heav

y glow
            
By the way I t

              
ried to say I'

          
d be there, wa

         
iting for


***play a pattern which invoves a lot of string muting