"What I Need" by Dave Barnes
From "What We Want, What We Get" (2010)
Tabbed by Kevin Dorth and Wessley Mitchell

Tuning:  Standard
Capo:  None

This song is mostly down-strumming, but feel free to mix it up.

Intro:
C# (x43121@1)Ab (xx1114@1)B (x2444x@1)F#7 (242352@1)Verse 1:
        C# (x43121@1)         Ab (xx1114@1)       B (x2444x@1)          F#7I (242352@1)got a head full of dreams and time here to scheme.
           C#Ab B (x2444x@1)F#7This (242352@1)ain't good, good.
    C# (x43121@1)          Ab (xx1114@1)             B (x2444x@1)            F#7I'm (242352@1)thinking, you know, about what did and didn't go
        C# (x43121@1) AbB    F#7Like (242352@1)it should, should.

AbAll (xx1114@1)these expectations
F#7 (242352@1)        C#Just (x43121@1)mean my heart'll be breaking.
Ab (xx1114@1)            C#mF#
Oh, why can't I see?

Chorus:
B (x2444x@1)         E (022100@1)           AbmYou (133111@4)give me what I need,
                       EEven (022100@1)on my brightest day,
                 BEven (x2444x@1)in a hurricane.
            E (022100@1)           AbmYou (133111@4)give me what I need,
                          EEven (022100@1)when there's way too much,
                      C#Even (x43121@1)when I'm down to dust.

Ab  B  F#7
C# (x43121@1)Ab (xx1114@1)B (x2444x@1)F#7 (242352@1)Verse 2:
     C# (x43121@1)          Ab (xx1114@1)          B (x2444x@1)          F#7I've (242352@1)troubled with time, but its will was not mine.
             C# (x43121@1)Ab (xx1114@1)             BF#7
There was no slowin' where it was goin'.
    C# (x43121@1)     Ab (xx1114@1)                B (x2444x@1)   F#7The (242352@1)wishes I willed all came back unfulfilled.
      C# (x43121@1)Ab (xx1114@1)        BF#7
I was prayin' without patience.

AbAll (xx1114@1)those expectations
F#7 (242352@1)        C#Just (x43121@1)meant my heart was breaking.
Ab (xx1114@1)            C#mF#
Oh, why can't I see?

Chorus:
B (x2444x@1)         E (022100@1)           AbmYou (133111@4)give me what I need,
                       EEven (022100@1)on my brightest day,
                 BEven (x2444x@1)in a hurricane.
            E (022100@1)           AbmYou (133111@4)give me what I need,
                          EEven (022100@1)when there's way too much,

Even when I'm down to dust.

Bridge:
F# (244322@1)      B (x2444x@1)F# (244322@1)  EI (022100@1)keep calm, carry on,

Like nothing ever went wrong.
F# (244322@1)        B (x2444x@1) F# (244322@1)  EThat's (022100@1)what I'm gonna do.
                                 F#(That's (244322@1)what I'm gonna do, oh.)

B (x2444x@1)F# (244322@1)   ELaugh (022100@1)it off, move along,

Get back where I belong.
F# (244322@1)            B (x2444x@1)     F#E
Live my life by leaning on you.
                    F# (244322@1)                    B(Oh, (x2444x@1)I lean on you.  I'm gonna lean on you, yeah.)

Chorus:
B (x2444x@1)         E (022100@1)           AbmYou (133111@4)give me what I need,
                       EEven (022100@1)on my brightest day,
                 BEven (x2444x@1)in a hurricane.
            E (022100@1)           AbmYou (133111@4)give me what I need,
                          EEven (022100@1)when there's way too much,

Even when I'm down to dust.

B (x2444x@1)         E (022100@1)           AbmYou (133111@4)give me what I need,
                     EEven (022100@1)on my brightest day,
                 BEven (x2444x@1)in a hurricane.

E (022100@1)           AbmYou (133111@4)give me what I need,
                E (022100@1)(Oh, oh, what I need.)
                   B (x2444x@1)    EYou (022100@1)give me what I need.
               Abm (133111@4)  EGive (022100@1)me what I need.
                 B (x2444x@1)E (022100@1)Abm (133111@4)EOh, (022100@1)oh, oh, oh.