• Song:

    Im Alive

  • Artist:

    Jackson Browne

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From: Sekhar Narayanaswami 


I'M ALIVE  ===  Jackson Browne
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Here's the latest by Jackson Browne, off
the album of the same name.

Intro:
E (022100@1)     A (x02220@1)     E (022100@1)     A (x02220@1)name="chord_022100@1">E       A (x02220@1)     E (022100@1)     B (x2444x@1)            E (022100@1)                               AIt's (x02220@1)been a long time since I watched these lights alone
       E (022100@1)                        AI (x02220@1)look around my life tonight and you are gone
             E (022100@1)                               Ai (x02220@1)might have done something to keep you if I'd known
E (022100@1)                   B (x2444x@1) How unhappy you'd become

           EWell (022100@1)I was dreaming of you
        AWith (x02220@1)my heart in your hands
          EAnd (022100@1)I was following through
        C#m (x13321@4)    BWith (x2444x@1)my beautiful plans
E (022100@1)     C#m (x13321@4)B (x2444x@1)E (022100@1)           A (x02220@1)                     EYeah, (022100@1)now I'm rolling down this canyon drive
          C#m (x13321@4)          BWith (x2444x@1)your laughter in my head
E (022100@1)                     A (x02220@1)              EGonna (022100@1)have to block it out somehow to survive
                      B (x2444x@1)    (tacet)
'cuz those dreams are dead
             E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)       E (022100@1)       ABut (x02220@1)I'm alive

          E (022100@1)                             AI (x02220@1)want to go where I will never hear your name
          E (022100@1)                   AI (x02220@1)want to lose my sorrow and be free again
      E (022100@1)              AAnd (x02220@1)I know I've been insane
E (022100@1)                          BWhen (x2444x@1)I think of the places I could've been

          EBut (022100@1)I was dreaming of you
        AWith (x02220@1)my heart in your hands
          EAnd (022100@1)I was following through
        C#m (x13321@4)    BWith (x2444x@1)my beautiful plans
E (022100@1)     C#m (x13321@4) B (x2444x@1)(solo)
E (022100@1)     E (022100@1)                    AStanding (x02220@1)here by the highway side
               EWatching (022100@1)these trucks blow by
               C#mInches (x13321@4)from my face
      B (x2444x@1)                               EYeah, (022100@1)thinking about the time I've wasted
(Dreaming of you)
                              AAnd (x02220@1)the pleasure we once tasted
(Dreaming of you)
                               ELooking (022100@1)up and down this road
(Following through)
          C#m (x13321@4)    BI've (x2444x@1)been here before
(Following through)
         C#m (x13321@4) BCan't (x2444x@1)be here no more
(Dreaming of you)
C#m (x13321@4)             B(Dreaming (x2444x@1)of you)

E (022100@1)           A (x02220@1)                          EYeah, (022100@1)now I'm rolling down this California five
          C#m (x13321@4)          BWith (x2444x@1)your laughter in my head
E (022100@1)                     A (x02220@1)              EGonna (022100@1)have to block it out somehow to survive
                        B (x2444x@1)    (tacet)
'cuz those dreams are dead
             E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)       E (022100@1)       ABut (x02220@1)I'm alive

E (022100@1)                                     ALook (x02220@1)at the way I believed in you and loved you all these years
E (022100@1)                                         ANow (x02220@1)you could fill a swimming pool with all my salty tears
    E (022100@1)                               AYou (x02220@1)told me what was in your heart but  baby you lied
      E (022100@1)                           AAnd (x02220@1)I thought that it would kill me,   but I'm alive!

Chords Used:
E:      022100 (or x79997)
A:	x02220 (or 577655)
B:	x24442 (or 799877)
C#m:	x46654 (or 911999)
               (    11  )
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                -> i.e. 9-11-11-9-9-9

The words in paren's are background vocals.  Tacet means (or at least
I mean) to break off strumming, i.e. there's no music played while
singing "But I'm alive".

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