What A Waster Chords Guitar Tab

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What a waster- the libertines
intro  Am  dsus4 d  f, g  Am, g Am
Am              d
What a waster, what a fucking waster
g
You pissed it all up the wall
Em                              Am
Round the corner where they chased her
Theres tears coming out from everywhere
The citys hard the citys fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
no you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt
Am, Am, g, Am
When she wakes up in the morning
She writes down all her dreams
Reads like the book of revelations
Or the Beano or the unabridged ulysses
Oh i really wanna know So tell me,
where does all the money go
where does all the money go
Straight, straight up her nose
Am, Am, g, Am X2    g, g, f, g
f                               g
And i never really liked it any way
f                                    g
So much preferred it the other way yeah
What a divvy what a fucking div
Talking like a moron,
walking like a spiv
I was laying in bed paying my rent
Knocking on the door for something that she left her brother
Meanwhile from under the covers she says
Save me from tommorow, save me from tommorow
Oh no, Oh no not me
And i never never liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way yeah
Never really liked it any way
So much preferred it the other way yeah
What a waster, what a fucking waster
You pissed it all up the wall
Round the corner where they chased her
Theres tears coming out from everywhere
The citys hard the citys fair
Get back inside you've got nothing on
no you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt
TABBED BY LEETHEMOD     EMAIL; leethemod@hotmail.com

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/l/libertines,_the/353838.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture KISS is the gre Average	#1 by KISS is the greatest at Apr 30, 1970 at 10:22 PM EST
	oh, and another thing about this song (amused me when i first heard it), is that at one time the line "save me from tomorrow" was "save me from the taliban", in 'honour' of the former libertines drummer who one day decided he would 'go off to fight the taliban', never to be seen again

No Picture Zach Wanna Be	#2 by Zach Honeycutt at Nov 26, 1975 at 5:53 PM EST
	amazing song, shame the libs didn't last and will now be a footnote and not the whole chapter in £nglish music they should be! did anyone see that doc on pete? i'd of punched the guy, what a waster he was!

No Picture D.J Wanna Be	#3 by D.J Mortensen at Apr 7, 1980 at 3:44 AM EST
	hehe i submitted this but i forgot the password to my other username ^^

No Picture $~Andrew~$ Average	#4 by $~Andrew~$ at Jun 24, 1981 at 7:56 AM EST
	_ellie, I agree with your comment about arguing over the value of two bob, but what the fuck were you talking about after that? :S (I'm easily confused, can you tell :D)

No Picture ¿Josh Rhythm Player	#5 by ¿Josh Kirkpatrick? at Sep 26, 1982 at 1:44 AM EST
	lmao wow I love this song so much, I'm listening to it as I'm writing this!

No Picture hamadi Wanna Be	#6 by hamadi alameddine at May 27, 1983 at 9:13 PM EST
	Half of you are some silly cunts arguing over how much two bob is. And it's about as ironic as the success of Alanis Morrisette's 'Ironic'. I.e. Very. And who would read a history of Brit pop in which the Libertines made up only a footnote?! You love it, you slags.

No Picture cody Wanna Be	#7 by cody westermier at Jul 9, 1985 at 2:21 AM EST
	ok so what exactly does this song mean? and what's a "two bob cunt"...heh, whatever it is, it sounds awesome...I love British talk

No Picture Cicely aka Icic Badass	#8 by Cicely aka Icicles and CSkank Shankle (if u stalk me i will shoot you.) at Aug 6, 1985 at 2:20 AM EST
	two bob cunt isnt £200 its £2 so its basically saying that its about a girl who will shag for next to nothing ie two quid

No Picture mike Average	#9 by mike duncan at Sep 21, 1986 at 10:38 PM EST
	this is NOT about kate moss! this song came out years before she and pete started dating!

No Picture mat Wanna Be	#10 by mat bar at Sep 27, 1986 at 6:52 AM EST
	As I think everyone probably know this song is about a hooker who once lived with pete. It shows that she went from probably being a normal person who he was friends with, to being a junkie who has to sell her body for a fix....hence "you've pissed it all up the wall". no you mind yer bleedin own you two bob cunt.......(this is pete saying she should look after herself cos he doesnt want too...two bob cunt means a cheap hooker...same thing as a "dirty skank") Save me from tommorow, save me from tommorow. Oh no, Oh no not me ....(once againg this is her asking Pete for help and him saying no she should look after herself). Never really liked it anyway....this is either paying for sex, or its about having her like this, compaired to what she was in the past.

No Picture Vicky Average	#11 by Vicky Barnard at Jan 26, 1988 at 11:48 PM EST
	A two bob cunt means an easy shag, basically. Someone who'll spread their pussy open for anyone.

No Picture ben Rhythm Player	#12 by ben kurkul at Sep 13, 1988 at 4:18 AM EST
	It's about a girl whose life has gone to shit because of drugs...Pretty ironic considering what's going on with Pete right now.

No Picture spence Average	#13 by spence o'brien at Jun 17, 1989 at 3:33 PM EST
	2 bob is a small amount of money then. This was written before Pete Had a huge drug problem but the irony is still there!

No Picture THE RONANATOR ( Average	#14 by THE RONANATOR (aka.Ronan) downer at Nov 13, 1990 at 11:42 AM EST
	I totallylove this song...I havent stopped listening to it since the 1st time I heard it! :)

No Picture jimmy Wanna Be	#15 by jimmy rodrigues at Dec 2, 1990 at 10:11 AM EST
	Also, he plays this song with Babyshambles, which I dunno, but it suggests to me that he knew the irony of this song when he was writing it. I think it's just about that particular person in general, he's not exactly saying she's a waster exclusively because she does drugs.

No Picture klown Rhythm Player	#16 by klown at May 9, 1991 at 12:30 PM EST
	it is £2 as libertines lover says, and its about a girl (a prostitute) who used to live with pete & carl a few years ago. of course its easy to say 'oh the irony, pete's the waster' but this songs really more about an attitude to life, he may have (or have had) problems but its not quite the same

No Picture Shotgun Average	#17 by Shotgun Joe at Feb 20, 1993 at 10:05 PM EST
	i love this song! i've only been into the libertines a few days but already have the 2 albums. I got into them because i saw the documentary 'stalking pete doherty' by that fat obsessive max twat. I agree that this song is about a prostitute feeding her cocaine addiction in the city.

No Picture tom Average	#18 by tom jenkins at Jan 27, 1995 at 10:31 AM EST
	it is very ironic that pete is singer what a waster when... well you know.

No Picture Quinn Rhythm Player	#19 by Quinn I killed my last name at Oct 9, 1997 at 10:58 AM EST
	CRF is right about the Taliban line and 2 bob is used to symbolise cheapness. it's a fantastic song!

No Picture SLIPKNOT FUCING Rhythm Player	#20 by SLIPKNOT FUCING RULES!!!! v at Jul 31, 1998 at 7:53 AM EST
	I still think it's about Kate Moss =/

No Picture nick Professional	#21 by nick Sutliff at Jun 5, 2002 at 11:50 AM EST
	"So tell me, where does all the money go where does all the money go Straight, straight up her nose And i never really liked it any way So much preferred it the other way yeah" They're talking about snorting heroin up your nose. . they didn't like it that way much preferred it hte other way. . shooting it up into your veins. .

No Picture Brett Professional	#22 by Brett Czap at Nov 5, 2003 at 7:37 PM EST
	the song is about a prostitute. the lines "never really liked it anyway, much prefered it the other way" are about paying for sex. the other way is the way when you can actually get laid without paying for it. crf, what kind of bullshit was your last comment?

No Picture ALEX Lead Player	#23 by ALEX FOWLER at Jul 1, 2004 at 4:47 AM EST
	2 bob isn't £200 or £2 its 10p.... Ten bob is 50p...

No Picture simon Average	#24 by simon cody simon at Jan 23, 2005 at 6:44 PM EST
	no a two bob cunt = £200 cunt. ie. the girls a whore I think they don't mean it literally they mean it in the sense that she's a slut. But u could take it either way. And if anyone doesn't know a spiv is like a cripple a disabled person if u will. And the Ulysses is a book by James Joyce which follow the entire day of a life.

No Picture Joshua Wanna Be	#25 by Joshua graham at Jan 3, 2007 at 5:20 PM EST
	So pete didn't do drugs when writing this? I don't know, but I can't imagine just starting drugs and becoming a heroin/crack addict so quickly? I don't think this song's merely about the girl being on drugs, I think it's just about her in general. And yeah, I saw that documentary. The guy was a prick but at the same time I felt slightly sorry for him, with a history of depression and stuff, he done some fucking stupid stuff though. That Kurt Cobain question, I mean, what the fuck? It's basically the same question Newsnight asked him about 5 months before that documentary was shown.