Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Tracklist:
1.) Holiday
2.) Action And Action
3.) Valentine
4.) Red Letter Day
5.) Out Of Reach
6.) 10 Minutes
7.) The Company Dime
8.) My Apology
9.) I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
10.) Long Goodnight
11.) Close To Home
12.) I'll Catch You
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1.) Holiday
Key: E5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
E - 022100
B5 - x24442
C#5 - x46654
A5 - x02220
F#m - 244222
G#m - 466444
E5 - 476xxx
C5 - x32010
Intro: E--C#m--G#m--A--
Verse 1:
E5
What became of everyone
C#5
I used to know?
Ab5
Where did our respectable
A5
convictions go?
E5
Your words don't match the
C#5
story that your actions show
Ab5 A5
What do I know?
Refrain 1:
F#5
I'm sure you can't
A5
help but remembering
C#5
I thought that you'd be one
A5
Not to forget
C#5
Remembering's not
A5
helping you yet
Chorus 1:
E5
Say goodnight
C#5
Means goodbye
A5
I know you think my life
B5 C#5 E5
will stop with you away
A5
Maybe I can
B5
see you on
E5 C#5
Holidays worlds away
A5 B5
I've never forgotten
C#5 E5
all our yesterdays
A5
I'm lucky if
B5
we're speaking on
E5 C#5 Ab5 A5
Holidays
Verse 2:
E5
The evidence presents itself
C#5
Accusingly
Ab5
You're absence speaking everything
A5
You think of me
E5 C#5
Now that I am faced with opportunity
Ab5 A5 C5
You're not remembering
Refrain 2:
F#5 A5
I'm not asking you to anyway
C#5 A5
And even if you ever could cave in
C#5 A5
i wouldnt know where to begin
Chorus 2:
E5
Say goodnight
C#5
Means goodbye
A5
I know you think my life
B5 C#5 E5
will stop with you away
A5
Maybe I can
B5
see you on
E5 C#5
Holidays worlds away
A5 B5
I've never forgotten
C#5 E5
all our yesterdays
A5
I'm lucky if
B5
we're speaking on
C#5 Ab5 A5 B5
Holidays Holidays
Interlude: F#m--E/G#--A-- x3
Chorus 3:
E5
Say goodnight
C#5
Means goodbye
A5
I know you think my life
B5 C#5 E5
will stop with you away
A5
Maybe I can
B5
see you on
E5 C#5
Holidays worlds away
A5 B5
I've never forgotten
C#5 E5
all our yesterdays
A5
I'm lucky if
B5
we're speaking on
C#5 Ab5 A5 F#5 E(hold)
Holidays Holidays
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2.) Action And Action
Key: E5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C#5 - x46654
B5 - x24442
A5 - x02220
E - 022100
G#m - 466444
C5 - x32010
F#m - 244222
Ab5 - x365xx
Intro: C#m-B-A-E-G#m---A (x3)
Organ: Will enter simultaneously with drums at 2nd time
e | -4----4----2-0--2-0--4----4----5----5---
B | ---5----5--------------5----5----5----5-
G | ----------------------------------------
D | ---------------------------------------- x2
A | ----------------------------------------
E | ----------------------------------------
Verse 1:
E5
You really think that you?re bigger than this
Ab5
To the tune of ten thousand lisps
A5
Who would have thought we?d represent
C5
When I can?t take a compliment?
E5
Overexposure is the key
Ab5
And any focus on me
A5
Is appreciated
C5
As it should be
Refrain 1:
C#5 Ab5
No wonder now
A5 E5 Ab5
I finally found
A5
The right formula look for
Chorus 1:
E5 Ab5
You taught me how
A5 B5
I play the fool
E5 Ab5
Every mistake that I make
A5 F#5
I couldn?t have made without you
E5 Ab5
What?s said is done
A5 B5
And plain to see
A5 B5 C5
You take it all too seriously
(Repeat Intro but only twice)
Verse 2:
E5
What better way to make an honest mistake
Ab5
Than a televised hand of fate
A5
When the world?s closing in on you
C5
A decision would be overdue
E5
Now nothing left is out of hand
Ab5
A stronger jaded man stands
A5
If the world is ending
C5
Then we toast to it
Refrain 2:
C#5 Ab5
I?m stronger now
A5 E5
But not without
Ab5 A5
The right formula look for
Chorus 2:
E5 Ab5
You taught me how
A5 B5
I play the fool
E5 Ab5
Every mistake that I make
A5 F#5
I couldn?t have made without you
E5 Ab5
What?s said is done
A5 B5
And plain to see
A5 B5
Here?s all you get from me
Ab5
Here?s all you get from me
Organ: C#m(hold) - A(hold) - E(hold) - G#m(hold)
Bridge:
C#5 A5
I?m down for whatever
E5 Ab5
What?s there left to wait for?
C#5 A5
I?m down for whatever
E5 Ab5
What?s there left to wait for?
A5 - B5 A5 - B5 Ab5
wait for I wait
(Repeat Chorus 2)
End on C#m
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3.) Valentine
Key: E5
Tuning: Standard ADGBe
Chords used:
E - 022100
B5 - x24442
C#5 - x46654
A5 - x02220
E5 - 476xxx
Intro: E--B--C#m--A (x2)
E5 B5 C#5 A5
It's words you forget To anniversary songs
E5 B5 C#5 A5
The bottles bite back Your tolerance wrong
E5 B5 C#5 A5
Your good intentions count for little anymore
E5 B5 C#5 - A5
If you're sorry, Why wage war?
Refrain 1:
E5 A5 E5
Im not fully convinced,There's something wrong with this
C#5 A5
Could another point of view, Biased and untrue,
B5 A5 B5
Tear me, away from you?
Chorus 1:
E5 B5 A5 C#5 B5 A5 E5 A5 B5
Will you be my Va-lentine, If I'm a world away?
E5 B5 A5 C#5 B5 A5 E5 A5 B5 A5 B5
Apologies are breaking me Constants aren't so constant anymore
Interlude: E(hold) - B(hold) - C#m(hold) - A(hold)
Verse 2:
E5 B5 C#5 A5
Two days to wait for calls to come through
E5 B5 C#5 A5
Tonight for me translates to yesterday to you
Refrain 2:
E5 A5 E5
You Bend and you wave You're barely away
C#5 A5
Wish i could say tonight, When you bend and wave goodbye
B5 A5 B5
"Take me with you."
(Repeat Refrain)
Chorus 2:
E5 B5 A5 C#5 B5 A5 E5 A5 B5
Will you be my Va-lentine, If I'm a world away?
E5 B5 A5 C#5 B5 A5 E5 A5 B5 C#5 E5
Apologies are breaking me Constants aren't so constant anymore
Constants aren't so constant anymore (will you be my valentine)
Constants aren't so constant anymore (will you be my valentine)
Constants aren't so constant anymore (will you be my valentine)
until fade out
A5 B5 A5 B5 E(hold)
Constants aren't so constant anymore
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4.) Red Letter Day
Key: E5
Tuning; Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
E - 022100
Es4 - 022200
C#5 - x46654
D5 - xx0232
B5 - x24442
A5 - x02220
G#m - 466444
F#m - 244222
A5 - x02210
Intro: E--Es4--E (x4)
Verse 1:
E5 A5 D5
You?ve got some nerve I never knew
A5 C#5
What with the world we gave away in front of you
E5 D5 A5
I see it all Much clearer now
A5
You?re just a phase I?ve gotten over anyhow
Refrain 1:
C#m B E G#m C#m--B
It?s over, I?m not giving in again
Chorus:
A5 B5
We?re loyal like brothers
C#5 E5
Just us versus all the others
A B C#m--B
You the one for You the one for me?
A5 B5
I trusted misleading
C#5 E5
Promises worth repeating
A5 B5 A5 F#5
How could you do this to me?
Verse 2:
E5 A5 D5
Red letter day that I learned
A5 C#5
I?m sure you?ll get what you deserve
E5 D5
I see it all Much clearer since?
A5 A5
Far past the point of this.
Refrain 2:
C#5 B5
It?s over
(Repeat Chorus except last line)
A5 B5
How could you do this
A5 B5 A5 B5
How could you do this to me?
Bridge:
E5
? And if it?s a lie
Ab5
I don?t want to be the one who signed
C#5
I?m not the one who falls down
B5 A5
It?s over now
E5
If you want to try?
F#5 - Ab5 - A5
Try to forget it
C#5 B5
I?ll say it?s over
C#m F#m---B
I?m gone
(Repeat Chorus last line)
Outro:
A5 B5
How could you do this
A5 B5 E(hold)
How could you do this to me?
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5.) Out Of Reach
Key: B5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
B5 - x24442
F# - 244322
Eb5 - x68876
G#m - 466444
E - 022100
C#5 - x46654
F#5 - F5 pluck
e | -----
B | -----
G | -----
D | -----
A | -----
E-2-1-
Intro: B-F#-Ebm-G#m-E-F#-G#m-B(F#-F pluck) E-F#-Ebm-G#m-E--F#
Verse 1:
B5 F#5 Eb5
Long way from home
Ab5 E5 F#5 Ab5 B(F#5 - F5 pluck)
lost by an echo I'd never have known
E5 F#5 Eb5 Ab5 E5
I've got pictures to prove I was there
F#5
but you don't care
B5 F#5 Eb5 Ab5 E5 F#5 Ab5 B( F#5 - F5 pluck)
Here's me overseas, across the pond by the Dover peaks
E5 F#5 Eb5 Ab5 E5
I've smuggled myself into new nationalities
F#5
you think you'd be proud of me
Chorus:
B5 E5
There's room to believe
Ab5 F#5 B5
out of sight, out of mind, out of reach
C#5 Ab5 Eb5 E5 F#5
Start over is no way to begin
(Repeat Intro, Verse 1 and Chorus Twice)
E5 F#5
way to begin
B(hold)
way to begin
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6.) 10 Minutes
Key: B5 , E5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
chords used:
B5 - x24442
E - 022100
G#m - 466444
F# - 244322
C#5 - x46664
A5 - x02220
Intro:
Drumbeats:
B5 - E5 - B5 - E5 - Ab5 - E5 - Ab5 - F#5 - B5 - E5 - B5 - E5 - Ab5 - E(hold)
Verse 1:
B5
Ten minutes to downtown
E5
is ten minutes too far
Ab5 F#5
When my friends all say I'm crazy
B5
maybe I'm being selfish
E5
Maybe I'm just scared
Ab5 F#5
Don't be gone when I get
Ab5 E5 Ab5
home I need you there
Refrain 1:
F#5 E5 C#5 - B5 - C#m-
If I had to explain it
B5 E5 C#5 B5 C#5
I wouldn't know where to start
B5 E5
It's like you're falling in
C#5 B5 - E5 - B5 - E5 - Ab5 - E5 - Ab5 - F#5 - B5 - E5 - B5 - E5 - Ab5 - E5 - B-
love while i just fall apart
Verse 2:
F#5 B5
Ten minutes to downtown
E5
is ten minutes too far
Ab5 F#5
when my heart is saying you're crazy
B5
Maybe things are getting better
E5
Maybe things aren't so bad
Ab5 F#5
Don't be gone when I get
Ab5 E5 Ab5
home you're all I have
Refrain 2:
F#5 E5 C#5 - B5 - C#m-
If I had to explain it
B5 E5 C#5 B5 C#5
I wouldn't know where to start
B5 E5
It's like you're falling in
C#m A--
love while i just fall apart
Chorus 1:
E5 B5 E5 B5
Pockets empty How can you tell
C#5 B5
me that everything will work out
E5 B5
a pointless fight
E5 B5
when you're always right and
A5 B5
Everything will work out
A5 C#5
your words out
Guitar Solo: E-B-E-B-C#m--B-- x2 A--C#m--B(hold)---
Interlude: E5 - C#5 - B5 - E5 - C#5 - B-
Bridge:
E5 C#5 B5 E5
Sometimes I miss you more
C#5 B5 B5
whenever I'm at home
E5 C#5 B5 E5
I've been home all summer
C#5 B5 B5
Now I'm leaving you alone
Breakdown: C#m-B-C#m-B-A----
Chorus 2:
E5 B5 E5 B5
Pockets empty How can you tell
C#5 B5
me that everything will work out
E5 B5
a pointless fight
E5 B5
when you're always right and
A5 B5 E5 B5 E5 B5
Everything will work out
C#5 B5 E5 B5 E5 B5
Everything will work out
C#m B A B-E--E(hold)
Everything will work out
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7.) The Company Dime
Key: G5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
G - 320033
D5 - xx0232
C5 - x32010 or C5 - x320033
A5 - x02210
G5 - x2x003
B5 - x24432
D5 - 2x023x
Intro: D5
Verse 1:
C5 D5
I watched it all come crashing down
B5 C5
On the verge of a world profound
D5
Standing on unstable ground
D5 C5
Adding insult to irony
D5
I think it?s really gonna happen this time
B5 C5
Our calls on the company dime
D5
Reluctance ties up the line
D5
With irresponsibility
Interlude: G5 - D5 - C5
Guitar 2:
e | -----------3-2---3-2---3-2-3-2---3-2---3-2-5--3--2---- |
B | -----0-1-3-----3-----3---------3-----3--------------3- |
G | -0-2-------------------------------------------------- |
D | ------------------------------------------------------ |
A | ------------------------------------------------------ |
E | ------------------------------------------------------ |
Verse 2:
C5 D5
No matter save for a friend
B5 C5
No argument can amend
D5
Irreplaceable but in the end
D5 C5
One star player doesn?t save the team
D5
Now you?re open to attack
B5 C5
Our burden rests on your back
D5
Replace, re-track
D5
Responsibility
Interlude 2: G-D-C--Am
Guitar 2:
e | -----------3-2---3-2---3-2-3-2---3-2---3-2-5--3--2-----3--2- |
B | -----0-1-3-----3-----3---------3-----3--------------3------- |
G | -0-2-------------------------------------------------------- |
D | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
A | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
E | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
Chorus:
C(hold)
I?m still waiting for
G(hold) G5
(I?m still waiting for)
A5 G5
You to get over this
C(hold)
I?m still waiting for
G(hold) G5
(I?m still waiting for)
A5 G5
You to get over this
C(hold)
I?m still waiting for
G(hold) G5
(I?m still waiting for)
A5 G5 C5
You to get over this
Verse 3:
C5 D5
Anonymous until the ending
B5 C5
Spent a long long time pretending
D5
And a longer day spent accepting
D5 C5
What the world ahead would store
D5
You only learn but not believing
B5 C5
That the industry is unforgiving
D5
Everything that you?ve been giving
D5
Isn?t what it was before
(Repeat Interlude 2 and Chorus)
Interlude 3: G5 - A5 - C5 - D5 (x2)
Guitar 2:
e | -----------------------
B | -1-0-1-0-1-0-----------
G | -----------------------
D | ----------------------- x8
A | -----------------------
E | -----------------------
Bridge:
G5 A5
Replace, re-track
C5 D5
Replace, re-track
G5 A5 C5 - D(hold)
Replace, re-track
(Repeat Chorus and Interlude 3 until fade out)
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8.) My Apology
Key: G5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
G - 320033
D5 - xx0232
Em - 022000
C5 - x32010
B5 - x24432
A5 - x02210
E5 - 4xx45x or 476xxx
Verse 1:
E5 C5
You?ll be accepting my apology
G5 C5
For taking things too seriously
G5 E5
Sometimes I?m old enough to keep routines
A5 C5
Sometimes I?m child enough to scream
E5 C5
For everything I broke in two
G5 C5
You?re barely missing me I?m missing you
G5 E5
And everything you do I really do
A5 C5
I really do Sure I do
Refrain 1:
B5 C5
My once photographic memory
G5 E5
For recollections?s sake is failing me
C5
I can?t remember for the life of me
Chorus:
G5 B5
Sometimes I can think to recite
E5 C5
Words that I read and rewrite
B5 C5
My pens paint people that I?ve proven wrong
(repeat)
E5 C5
We move on
Verse 2:
E5 C5
Get a job where I tell
G5 C5
All of my accounts of someone else
G5 E5
I?m quick enough to judge that they were wrong
A5 C5
And that we knew it all along
E5 C5
Sing a long long-winded song
G5 Em(hold) D(hold) C5
I would be content to hum along Humm
Bridge:
G5 C5
If I state that my fingers know where to show
E5
What everyone should have known
G5
I?ll let it go
C5
Hopefully you?ll forget
E5
Any words that I put in print
C(hold)
My luck, you?ll change
C5
Have strength enough to walk away
(Repeat Chorus 4 times)
Outro:
G(hold)
Wrong
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9.) I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
Key: C5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
F - 133211
G - 320003
A5 - x02210
Em - 022000
C5 - x32010
Intro: F-G-Am-Em (x4) F--G--C--Am--F--G--C--
Verse 1:
C5 F5
Come tomorrow I?ll be on my way back home
G5 C5 F5
In the morning call from a roadside telephone
C5 F5
One night doesn?t mean the rest of my life
Chorus:
G5 F5 A5 E5 F5
If I go it?s not impossible
G5 A5 C5 F5 G5
Possible is probably wrong
A5 E5
So, let go
F5 G5 C5
cause I?m afraid to try
F C--F--G
Keep my hands by my side
Verse 2:
F5 G5
You won?t come back
C5 A5
I hope some day you?ll understand
F5 G5
I wanna try, make it right
C5
Don?t know if I can
Bridge:
F5 G5 A5 E5
Last night everything was right
F5 G5
The rain was gone
A5 E5 F5 G5
One summer night?s the only time we?ve known
A5 E5
So, shut your eyes
F5 G5 C(hold)
When you wake up I?ll be gone
F C--
When you wake up I?ll be gone
C5 F5 G5
One night doesn?t mean the rest of my life
(Repeat Chorus except last line)
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10.) Long Goodnight
Key: E5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
E - 022100
B5 - x24442
C#5 - x46654
A5 - x02220
B5 - x24442
F#m - 244222
G#m - 466444
E5 - 4xx45x
Intro: C#m--E/G#-B-E--B (x3) C#m--E/G#-B-E--A---
Verse 1:
C#5 E5 B5 E5 B5
Every attempt to
C#5 E5 B5 E5 A5
is filled with holes
C#m E/G# B E B C#m--E/G#-B-E--A--
it reads like a polygraph i'm told
Refrain:
B5 A5
i'm not better anyway
B(hold)
let it go
Verse 2:
C#5 E5 B5 E5 B5
i never sleep still
C#5 E5 B5 E5 A5
less i forget
C#m E/G# B E B C#m--E/G#-B-E--A--
tied down by handicaps instead
Refrain 2:
B5 A5
i'm not better anyway
B5 A5
but i didn't want it to turn out this way
Chorus:
C#5 B5 A5 E5
sing a long goodnight, forget any fight
A5 E5 Ab5
refuse to rest assured
C#5 B5 A5 E5
it comes with no reply hold on too tight
A5 E5 Abm(hold)
i hang on every word
Interlude: A--F#m--G#m--A--E--A--F#m--G#m--A--E
Bridge:
E5 A5 F#5
if it all ended tonight, you know that i wouldn't mind
Ab5 A5
it'd be back to the good old times before it won
(repeat)
(Repeat Chorus twice)
Outro: A--E
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11.) Close To Home
Key: D5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
D5 - xx0232
D5 - 2x023x
B5 - x24432
G - 320033
A5 - x02220
Em - 022000
A5 - x476xx or x4222x
F#m - 244222
Verse 1:
D5 G5
Summer swallowed us whole
B5
Waited for you to come around
D5 G5
Every word you wrote
D5 G5
Down, we read it over to know
B5
Would they believe in us now?
D5 G5
There?s no shame like no
D5 G5
Sound from sources hits close to home
B5
Everything that we?ve found
D5 G5
Says make your own destiny But
Chorus:
B5 A5 G5 A5 D5
You?re unaware that you
G5
Should be scared
B5
Maybe you?ll learn from
A5 G5
mistakes that we make
D5 G5 A5 B5
We?re not waiting forever
D5 G5 A5 B5
We know you?ll never be there
D5 G5 A5 B5
We?re not waiting forever
D Bm G-----
If you get out See you there
Interlude: D--G--Bm--D/F#-G
Guitar 2:
e | --------0----------0---2----------0------2-0-----------0--- |
B | ----3-----3----3-----3----------3---3--------3-2-3-2-3---3- |
G | ------2----------2----------2----------2------------------- |
D | -0-----------0------------0---0---------------------------- |
A | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
E | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
Verse 2:
D5 G5
Summer swallowed us whole
B5
Waited for you to come around
D5 G5
There?s no shame like no
D5 G5
Sound from sources hits close to home
B5
Everything that we?ve found
D5 G5
Says make your own destiny But
(Repeat Chorus except last line)
D5 A5
If you get out See you there
B5 G5
You?re not awake As I?m aware
Woo
D--A--Bm--G
Bridge:
B5 A5 G5
Maybe we had all you
E5 D5 A5
Figured absolutely wrong
B5 A5 G5
There?s been a misunderstanding
E5 D5 A5
We?ve had all along
B5 A5 G5
Maybe we had all you
E5 D5 A5
Figured absolutely wrong
(Maybe we had all you
Figured absolutely wrong)
B5 A5 G5
You can read about
(You can read)
Em D--F#m--Bm--A-G--Em--D-A/C#-Bm--A-G------Em----D
About it when we?re gone
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12.) I'll Catch You
Key: A5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
A5 - x02220
D5 2x023x
E - 022100
D5 - xx0232
F#m - 244222
B5 - x24432
C#5 - x46654
Intro: A--D/F#-- x6
Verse 1:
A5
Can you sleep as the sound
D5
hits your ears one at a time?
an unspoken balance here
A5 D5
unabridged for so many years
A5 D5
that i should stare at receivers
A5 D5 E5
to receive her isn't fair
Chorus:
D5
don't worry
A5
i'll catch you
D5
don't worry
A5
i'll catch you
D5 C#m(hold) Bm(hold)
don't ever worry
Verse 2:
A5
your arms in mine
D5
anytime
A5
i wouldn't trade anything
D5
you're still my everything
A5 D5
to my surprise before
A5 D5 E5
my eyes you arrive
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
F#5 E5 D5
i'm still breaking old habits habits
F#5 E5 A5
when you pulled the wool over me
A5 D5 A5
i can see everything everything
F#5 E5 D5
re-membering
F#5 E5 A5 D5 A5 D5
jinx removing
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro:
F#5 E5 D5
no need for reminding you're
F#5 E5 A(hold)
still all that matters to me
