Tabbed by: hurryfashion
Tuning: Standard; tune down one half step to play along with the CD.
This is how I play this song from the True North CD [2000].
The arrangement for solo acoustic includes a riff to cover the funky bass line.
Listen to the CD for the timing.
Bass riff: Part I Part II
e | ------------------------------------------------------- |
B | ------------------------------------------------------- |
G | ------------------------------------------------------- |
D | ------------------------------------------------------- |
A | ----7--7----7--7--------7-----------7--7----7--7------- |
E | ---0--0--4----5--6-6/7-7-----------0--0--4----5--6-7--- |
INTRO Main Bass Riff (x 2)
NC Riff
You can take me away from my sorrow, but you can't take away my scars.
I stand in the middle of the highway, playing chicken with the cars.
A5 Ab5 F#5 B5 - B5 - B5
It's not that I'm destructive; I just want to feel your pain.
CHORUS 1
E5 A5 F#5 B5
If there was any way, I could have known,
E5 A5 F#5 B5
I would trip and fall, away from you.
E5 A5 F#5 B5
If there was anything, I could have done,
C#5 B5 A5 Riff (x2)
To stay in love with you, - with you?
NC Riff
Wish I could say to you what you are to me, but I know it would make you sad.
You are too good to be my lover, but you've been the greatest dad, I ever had.
A5 Ab5 F#5 B5 - B5 - B5
You made my life so lovely, I just had to mess it up.
CHORUS 2
E5 A5 F#5 B5
If there was any way, I could have known,
E5 A5 F#5 B5
I would trip and fall, from your grace.
E5 A5 F#5 B5
If there was anything, I could have done,
C#5 B5 A5
To stay in love with you
BRIDGE (fingerpicked)
C#5 C#5 C#5 Bb7b5 A5
If I knew, I'd do it twice, just to make sure that I did it right.
SOLO Break (over chorus chords)
E5 A5 F#5 B5
If there was any way, I could have known,
E5 A5 F#5 B5
I would always need, to be alone.
E5 A5 F#5 B5
If there was anything, I could have done,
C#5 B5 A5
To stay in love with you,
C#5 B5 A5 Riff
I?d be in love with you. With you.