• Song:

    Running on Empty

  • Artist:

    Jackson Browne

  • Album:

    Best Of...live

INTRO) 
 | D5      | D5 A5      | D5       | D5 A5       | D5      | D5 A5     | F#5     | F#5     |  

 | D5                       | A5                 | E5           |         |  
(I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on) 

VERSE 1) 
D5                   D5 - A5                    D5           D5 - A5 
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels 
D5                   D5     A5               D5             D5 - A5 
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields 
D5                   D5 - A5           D5             D5 - A5 
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up 101 
D5                      A5                  E5 
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on 


         D5            A5 
(Running on) Running on empty 
         D5         A5 
(Running on) Running blind 
         D5                   A5                 F#5 
(Running on) Running into the sun, but running behind.  

VERSE 2) 

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive 

Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive 

In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and called the road my own 

I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on. 

Chorus 1x 

INTRO (with slide guitar) 

BRIDGE) 
F#5           D5     E5             A5 
   Everyone I know,  everywhere I go 
F#5                 E5           D5 
   People need some reason to believe 
                       A5 
   I don't know about anyone but me 
F#5                D5      E5               A5 
   If it takes all night,  that'll be all right 
D5                     E5                   D5   C#5    B5  A5    F#5  E5 
  If I can get you to smile before I leave 

VERSE 3) 

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels 

I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels 

I look around for the friends I used to turn to to pull me through 

Looking into their eyes I see them running too 

Chorus 1x 

VERSE 4) 
D5                D5     A5                 D5                 D5 A5 
Honey you really tempt me,  You know the way you look so kind 
D5                     E5                      D5   C#5    B5  A5    F#5  E5 
I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind 
D5                     E5                      D5   C#5    B5  A5    F#5  E5 
You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find 
D5                A5                       D5   C#5    B5  A5 
Running into the sun but I'm running behind. 

ENDING 
 | D5      | D5 - A5    |   pattern 12 times (with slide guitar solo) 

 | D5      | E5      | D5  C#5   B5   | A5
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