Song: We Come Alive
Band: The Wave Pictures
Album: Instant Coffee Baby

Tab by Plabon

Standard tuning


Verse 1:

            F (133211@1)               Bb (x1333x@1)             CThere (x32010@1)were roman candles and Catherine wheels outside
F (133211@1)               Bb (x1333x@1)   CInside, (x32010@1)all was deadly quiet
 F (133211@1)         Bb (x1333x@1)     C (x32010@1)     F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1) BbCorner (x1333x@1)cut, medium weight and I arrive late
 F (133211@1)                                  Bb (x1333x@1)               CI (x32010@1)caught you spelling baby names with sparklers on your patio
     F (133211@1) Bb (x1333x@1)    C (x32010@1)      F (133211@1)                          Bb (x1333x@1)  CAnd (x32010@1)you didn't know, that I'd been writing letters to other girls
    F (133211@1)              Bb (x1333x@1)   CIn (x32010@1)shaky, shaky handwriting



Bridge 1:

    DmWe (xx0231@1)swooned like 50's housewives
                BbBuzzing (x1333x@1)like a hive
 Dm (xx0231@1)                           Bb (x1333x@1)  C (x32010@1) The room is spinning faster than a 45


Chorus 1:

    F (133211@1)             Bb (x1333x@1) CAnd (x32010@1)we come alive
F (133211@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)  CWe (x32010@1)come alive
F (133211@1)Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Bb (x1333x@1)CWe (x32010@1)come alive


Bass Solo(same F Bb C chords)


Verse 2:

     F (133211@1)                     Bb (x1333x@1)       C (x32010@1)
Well you were an octopus and I was an orang-utan
     F (133211@1)                       Bb (x1333x@1)         CAnd (x32010@1)everybody in there saw the way that we carried on
      F (133211@1)                           Bb (x1333x@1)   C (x32010@1)               F (133211@1)BbC
But everyone who knows me, knows I make up all these stories


Bridge 2:

    DmWe (xx0231@1)swooned like 50's housewives
                BbBuzzing (x1333x@1)like a hive
 Dm (xx0231@1)                           Bb (x1333x@1)  C (x32010@1) The room is spinning faster than a 45


Chorus 2:(2x)

    F (133211@1)             Bb (x1333x@1) CAnd (x32010@1)we come alive
F (133211@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)  CWe (x32010@1)come alive
F (133211@1)Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Bb (x1333x@1)CWe (x32010@1)come alive
F (133211@1)             Bb (x1333x@1) Cwe (x32010@1)come alive
F (133211@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)  CWe (x32010@1)come alive
F (133211@1)Bb (x1333x@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Bb (x1333x@1)CWe (x32010@1)come alive



Guitar solo, same F Bb C chords. Solo mainly in F major pentatonic.