Boys Like Girls Full Album
2007
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Tracklist:
01. The Great Escape
02. Five Minutes To Midnight
03. Hero/Heroine
04. On Top of the World
05. Thunder
06. Me, You, and My Medication
07. Up Against The Wall
08. Dance Hall Drug
09. Learning To Fall
10. Heels Over Head
11. Broken Man
12. Holiday
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1.) The Great Escape
Key:
Chords used:
- 022100
- x24442
- x46654
- x02220
- 244222
- 466444
- x698xx
x - x-12-14-14-0-0----------|
/x - x-11-14-13-0-0-|
- x476xx
Intro: --- (x4)
Guitar 2: Harmonics Effect Pedal
e|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|
G|-----9-------8-------9------9---|
D|---9---9---9---9---9------9---9-| (x4)
A|-7-------6----------------------|
E|-----------------9-----7--------|
Verse 1:
Ax
Paper bags and plastic hearts
/G#x
All are belongings in shopping carts
It's goodbye
But we got one more night
Let's get drunk and ride around
And make peace with an empty town
(hold)
We can make it right
Chorus:
Throw it away, forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We won't hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn, let it die
Cause we are finally free tonight
Guitar 2: while chorus
e|-9--12--16--11-|
B|---------------|
G|---------------|
D|---------------| (x2)
A|---------------|
E|---------------|
Interlude: x-/x
Verse 2:
Ax
Tonight will change our lives
/G#x
It's so good to be by your side
But we'll cry
We won't give up the fight
We'll scream loud at the top of our lungs
And they'll think it's just cause were young
(hold)
And we'll feel so alive
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
All of the wasted time
The hours that were left behind
The answers that we'll never find
They don't mean a thing tonight
Solo: --- (x2)
Guitar 2:
e|-4--2--0--4--5--7--4--2--0--7--5--4-|
B|------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------|
e|-4--2--0--4--5--7--4--2--0--2-|
B|------------------------------|
G|------------------------------|
D|------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|
(Repeat Chorus in silence except last 2 lines)
(Repeat Chorus except last 2 lines)
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro: Ax-E/G#x
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2.) 5 Minutes To Midnight
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- xx0232
- x02220
- x24432
- 320033
- 022000
- 244222
Intro: --------
Guitar 2:
e|-----------------|
B|-3-3-2-2-3-3-----|
G|-------------2-2-|
D|-----------------| repeat many times
A|-----------------|
E|-----------------|
Verse 1:
Brown eyes and lungs are
filled up with smoke
Fast lives are stuck
in the undertow
But you know the
places I wanna go
Cause oh oh oh
I've got a sickness
you've got the cure
You've got the spunk
I've been lookin' for
And I've got a plan
we walk out the door
You know you wanna
Refrain:
Just let go It's time to roll
down the windows sing it oh oh
Yeah all we need so here we go
Chorus:
Turn it up It's five
minutes to midnight
You're coming home
with me tonight
I can't get enough
Shakin' me up Turn it up
Alright at five
minutes to midnight
You see our name
in city lights
We'll make the clock stop
Make your heart drop
and come alive
Verse 2:
We could
Pack up and leave
all our things behind
No fact or fiction
or storyline
Cause I need you more
than just for tonight
(hold)
You're oh oh all I care
I can't stop my
breathing in
I'm weak and you
were my medicine
I won't stop till I
am under your skin
(Repeat Refrain and Chorus except last line)
and come alive
Bridge:
And when the clock
strikes twelve
Will you find another
party go and kiss and tell
Cause you know I never will
I think we should strike a match
We'll hold it to the wind
to and see how long it lasts
We can make the time stand still
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3.) Hero/Heroine
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x32010
- 320003
- 022000
- 133211
- x02210
Intro:
Guitar 1:
e|-------0-|
B|-1-0-1---|
G|---------|
D|---------| (x16)
A|---------|
E|---------|
Guitar 2: -----
Guitar 3:
e|-8--3--0--1--|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-------------|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
Verse 1:
It's too late baby, there's no turning around
I got my hands in my pocket and my head in a cloud
This is how I do
When I think about you
I never thought that you could break me apart
I keep a sinister smile and a hole in my heart
You want to get inside Then you can get in line
But not this time
Refrain:
Cause you caught me off guard
(hold)
Now I'm running and screaming
Guitar 1: while doing refrain
e|-----3-|
B|---0---|
G|-1-----|
D|-------| (x2)
A|-------|
E|-------|
Chorus 1:
I feel like a hero and
you are my heroine
Guitar 1: While doing chorus
e|-------0-|
B|-1-0-1---|
G|---------|
D|---------| (x16)
A|---------|
E|---------|
Verse 2:
I won't try to philosophize
I'll just take a deep breath then I'll look in your eyes
This is how I feel And it's so surreal
I got a closet filled up to the brim
With the ghosts of my past and their skeletons
And I don't know why You'd even try
But I won't lie
(Repeat Refrain)
Chorus 2:
I feel like a hero and
you are my heroine
Do you know that your
love is the sweetest sin?
Guitar 1: While doing chorus
e|-------0-|
B|-1-0-1---|
G|---------|
D|---------| (x16)
A|---------|
E|---------|
Bridge:
And I feel a weakness coming on
It never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
And I'm feeling like a newborn child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated I was so jaded
Guitar 1: while doing Bridge
e|----------12-|
B|-13-12-13----|
G|-------------|
D|-------------| (x32)
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
(Repeat refrain in silence and Chorus 2)
Outro:
(I feel like a hero and you are my heroine)
And I feel a weakness coming on
It never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)
And I'm feeling like a newborn child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded
(Repeat outro in silence)
(hold)
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4.) On The Top Of The World
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
- x02220
- 022100
- 244222
- xx0232
Intro: -------
Verse 1:
(hold)
Look up the stars are fading
And I am still here waiting
To see you again
Be with you my friend
When the moon is gone forever
I hope you're up there somewhere
I'll see you again
Be with you my friend
Refrain 1:
Cause all the roads they
lead to where you are
And all the streetlights
shine like they were stars
That's where you are
Chorus:
Let's spend tonight
on top of the world
And we can do anything
We can be anything
I'll meet you tonight
on top of the world
As real as it seems
You're only in my dreams
Interlude: --
Verse 2:
Look out across the water
Faces of lonely daughters
and mothers who care
But just can't be there
Swear that I will see you someday
I have to find a way
To show you I care
Even if you're not there
Refrain 2:
So I'm following the
road to where you are
(Meet you tonight on top of)
The streetlights they will
guide me to the stars
That's where you are
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
My heart is empty without you
Sometimes you don't know what you do
And I need you tonight
I'll fall asleep and it's alright
Close my eyes and I'll be by your side
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro:
Let's spend tonight
on top of the world
As real as it seems
You're only in my dreams
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5.) Thunder
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- xx0232
- x4222x
- x24432
- 320033
- x02220
- 022000
- 244222
Verse 1:
Today is a winding
road that's
taking me to places
that I didn't want to go
Whoa (whoa whoa whoa)
Today in the blink of an eye
I'm holding on to
something and I do
not know why I tried
Refrain:
I tried to read
between the lines
I tried to look
in your eyes
I want a
simple explanation
For what I'm
feeling inside
I gotta find
a way out
(hold)
Maybe there's
a way out
Chorus 1:
Your voice was the
soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you're
unlike any other?
You'll always be my
thunder and I said
Your eyes are the
brightest of all the
colors I don't wanna
ever love another
You'll always
be my thunder
Post Chorus 1:
So bring on the rain
And bring on the thunder
Verse 2:
Today is a winding road
Tell me where to start and
tell me something I don't know
Whoa (whoa whoa whoa)
Today I'm on my own
I can't move a muscle
and I can't pick up the phone
I don't know (I don't know
I don't know I don't know)
Refrain 2:
And now I'm itching
for the tall grass
And longing for
the breeze
I need to step
outside
Just to see if
I can breathe
I gotta find a way out
Maybe theres a way out
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Post Chorus2:
So bring on the rain
Bridge:
Yeah I'm walking
on a tightrope
I'm wrapped up in vines
I think we'll make it out
But you just gotta
give me time
Strike me down
with lightning
Let me feel
you in my veins
I wanna let
you know how
much I feel
your pain
Verse 3:
Today is a winding
road that's
taking me to places
that I didn't want to go
Whoa
Chorus 2:
Your voice was the
soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you're
unlike any other?
You'll always be my
thunder and I said
Your eyes are the
brightest of all the
colors I don't wanna
ever love another
You'll always
be my thunder I said
Your voice was the
soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you're
unlike any other?
You'll always be my
thunder
Outro:
So bring on the rain
I don't bring it here
(hold)
On the pain just to
(hold)
hear the thunder
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6.) Me You And My Medication
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
F#m - 244222
- x02220
- xx0232
E - 022100
- x4222x
Intro: F#m--D-- x4
Piano:
e|------------------|
B|-2----------------|
G|-------2-----2--4-|
D|----4-----4-------| x8
A|------------------|
E|------------------|
Verse 1:
Found my way to the highway I don't
wanna tell you the state I'm in
I've had too much to smoke too
much to drink where have I been
It feels like the stars are getting
closer and the sky is closing in
And I don't know where to begin
Refrain 1:
We're all looking
for something
To take away the pain
Chorus:
Me and you and my medi---cation
(Making the best of it)
Love is just a chemical cre--ation
(Will it be permanent?)
Synthetic sensation
Me you and my medication
Verse 2:
The way back to the right track
maybe you can help me find the door
Is it too much to ask too much
too fast too much to ignore
It feels like your bodys getting
closer but you seem so far away
Medicine make it ok
(Repeat Refrain 1 and chorus)
Bridge:
Can you feel it?
Do you feel it?
Coming down
You gotta get up
Can you get up
Off the ground
Can you hear it?
Can you hear
me screaming?
Can you feel it?
Do you feel it?
Coming down
You gotta get up
Can you get up
Off the ground
I wanna hear it
Wanna hear
you breathing
Refrain 2:
Were all addicted
to something
That takes away the pain
(Repeat Chorus)
(Repeat Piano Intro)
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7.) Up Against The Wall
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
E - 022100
- x24442
- x46654
- x02220
F#m - 244222
Intro:
Piano:
e|-9-9-7-7-------------|
B|---------9-9---------|
G|-------------8-8-9-9-|
D|---------------------| (x2)
A|---------------------|
E|---------------------|
Distortion: C#m--E-A (x2)
Verse 1:
It's over, look out below
I'm wasted, I still taste it
Yeah it's so hard to let go
So breathe in now, and breathe it out
The forecast; A car crash
It's looking like another
Refrain:
Breakdown, rebound
This could be my last goodbye
You cross your heart, I hope to die
Chorus 1:
And I can't deny your eyes
You know I try to read between the lines
I saw a warning sign
And then you threw me up against the wall
Who said that it's better to have loved and lost?
I wish that I had never loved at all
(Repeat Intro but only once)
Verse 2:
No rewinds, no second times
And I won't break, I won't waste
Everything you left behind
So don't follow, just let it go
The weather's been better
So let it be another
(Repeat Refrain)
(Repat Chorus 1)
Bridge:
All the nights you spent sitting nowhere
Out there on your own
All the nights I waited by the phone
When you were going in alone
And all your different faces And all your different ways
Are making everything a mess And all I'm saying is that
I have different places and All the complications end today
Chorus 2:
And I can't deny your eyes
You know I try to read between the lines
I saw a warning sign
And then you threw me up against the wall
Who said that it's better to have loved and lost?
I wish that I had never loved at all
(Repeat Chorus 1)
(Repeat Intro)
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8.) Dance Hall Drug
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x24432
- xx0232
G - 320033
E - 022100
- x02220
Em - 022000
/ - x143xx
- x4222x
Intro : Bm--E
Verse 1:
Grown up she just turned 16
Stuck in the moment
Dead at the scene
And it's on tonight
This is the life that
you wanted right?
So turn off all the lights
Dressed up just
like a movie star
At all the parties
they'll know who you are
Wouldn't it be great
To be fashionably late?
So why don't you wait
til you're sedated
Refrain:
Don't it feel like something's
not right in this kiss tonight?
Chorus 1:
All I'm saying is do you
do you want to lose it all?
Cause this is more than
just a dance hall drug
You can't wait to fall in love
All I'm saying is do you
do you want to learn to fly?
Then you should pack
it up and say goodbye
Cause when the push comes to the
shove it's just a dance hall drug
Interlude:
Verse 2:
Step in and you can
lock the door
The candles are lit and
the clothes on the floor
You could take a chance
on finding romance
Now you're holdng hands
But he's got other plans
Tick tock the clock
is turning red
The room won't stop spinning
and thoughts in your head
And it's too late
You feel like you're
making a big mistake
You should've waited
(Repeat Refrain 1)
Chorus 2:
All I'm saying is do you
do you want to lose it all?
Cause this is more than
just a dance hall drug
You can't wait to fall in love
All I'm saying is do you
do you want to learn to fly?
Then you should pack
it up and say goodbye
Cause when the push comes to the
/
shove
it's just a dance hall drug
Bridge:
Just wait love
Show them what
you're made of
Refrain 2:
Don't it feel like something's
not right in this kiss tonight?
Chorus 3:
All I'm saying is do you
do you want to lose it all?
Cause this is more than
just a dance hall drug
You can't wait to fall in love
All I'm saying is do you
do you want to learn to fly?
Then you should pack
it up and say goodbye
Cause when the push comes to the
shove it's just a dance hall drug
Chorus 4:
Refrain:
Don't it feel like something's
not right in this kiss tonight?
Chorus 1:
All I'm saying is do you
do you want to lose it all?
Cause this is more than
just a dance hall drug
You can't wait to fall in love
All I'm saying is do you
do you want to learn to fly?
Then you should pack
it up and say goodbye
Cause when the push comes to the
/ (hold)
shove it's just a dance hall drug
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9.) Learning To Fall
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Gm - 355333
- x68886
- x13331
F - 133211
- 587xxx or x032xx
- x35543
- x587xx
Verse 1:
Today is the day, the worst day of my life
You're so content it hurts me, I don't know why
The cost of misery, is at an all time high
(hold)
I keep it hidden, close to the surface in sight
Chorus
I'm learning to fall, I can't hardly breathe
When I'm going down don't worry about me
Don't try this at home, you said you don't see
I don't want to know that you know, it should have been me
Guitar 2: While doing chorus
e|-------13-------13----10-|
B|-10h11----10h11----10----|
G|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------| x8
A|-------------------------|
E|-------------------------|
Verse 2:
Could you be with him?
Or was it just a lie?
He doesn't catch you like I do
And you don't know why
You change your clothes and your hair
But I can't change your mind
Oh, I'm uninvi-ted So unrequi-ted now
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
Words screaming in my head
Why did you leave?
And I can't stop dreaming
Watching you and him
(hold)
When it should have been
It should have been me
Today is the day, the worst day of my life
(Repeat Chorus)
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10.) Heels Over Head
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x68886
G# - 466544
- x35543
- x13331
Gm - 355333
Fm - 133111
Verse 1:
I got your runaway smile in my piggybank baby
Gonna cash it right in for a new Mercedes
(hold)
You were worth the hundred thousand miles
(hold)
But you couldn't stay awhile
I got your little brown shirt in my bottom drawer baby
And your little white socks in the top drawer
You were always leaving your shit around
And gone without a sound
Refrain:
Yeah I'm the first to fall
and the last to know
(hold)
Where'd you go?
Chorus 1:
Now I'm heels over head
I'm hanging upside down
Thinking how you left me for dead
(hold)
California bound
Verse 2:
I got a first class ticket to a night all alone
And a front row seat up right by the phone
because you're always on my mind
And I'm running out of time
I've got your hair on my pillow and your smell in my sheets
And it makes me think about you with the sand in your feet
Is it all you thought it'd be? You mean everything to me
(Repeat Refrain and Chorus 1)
Chorus 2
And when you hit the coast
I hope you think of me
And how I'm stuck here with the ghost
Of what we used to be
Bridge:
You're burning bridges baby (burnin' bridges)
Make your wishes
(Repeat x2)
You're burning bridges baby (burnin' bridges)
Make your wishes
You're burning bridges baby (burnin' bridges)
Make your wishes
You're a chance taker, heartbreaker
Got me wrapped around your finger
(Repeat x2)
(Repeat 1st 4 lines of verse 1)
(Repeat Chorus 1, Chorus 2 then Chorus 1)
Outro:
And when you hit the coast
Maybe you'll finally see
And then you'll turn it all around
And you'll come back to me
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11.) Broken Man
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords:
- xx0232
- x02220
- x24432
G - 320033
Em - 022000
F#m - 244222
Intro:
Verse 1:
I want to scream until no sound
comes out and you've
learned your lesson
I want to swallow
these pills to get to sleep
So I don't have to
make a bad impression
Refrain:
I need to start to be myself
Cause I'm sick of everybody else
Chorus 1:
I won't let you bring me down
It's here and now I'm breaking out
I will learn to love again
But I will stand a broken man
Interlude:
Verse 2:
I wanna run but only far
enough to make you miss me
I wanna take back all the
shit that I have done
But I guess you were
better off without me
(Repeat Refrain and Chorus 1)
Bridge:
I took one big step
and I looked away
And then I thought of all
the things that I wanted to say
I'm always too late you
never got your story straight
I'm always up late I think
I'm everything you hate
(Repeat Thrice)
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Chorus 2: While singing Bridge
I won't let you bring me down
It's here and now I'm breaking out
I will learn to love again
(hold)
But I will stand a broken man
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12.) Holiday
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
E - 022100
- x24442
- x46654
- x02220
- 476xxx
F#m - 244222
- xx0232
Intro:
e|-----------12--------12--------12--------|
B|-12---12--------12--------12--------12---|
G|----9----9----9----9----9----9----9----9-|
D|-----------------------------------------| x2
A|-----------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|
Verse 1:
When I was younger I used to be wild
As wild as an elephant's child
No one could hold me down
No one could keep me around
Now it's your turn take a shot
Baby show me everything that you got
Maybe you can keep me alive
Maybe you can get in my mind
But it's only a matter of time
Chorus:
Before I run far away
I need to take a holiday
Maybe it's a fall from grace
I gotta find a new place
holiday
I'll set off on a new chase
I gotta see a new face
I need to take a holiday
Post chorus: E
Verse 2:
My father he was always wise
As wise as an elephant's eyes
He couldn't hold me down
He couldn't keep me around
So are you gonna take your shot?
It's the only one that you got
Maybe I'll go out on a limb
Maybe I'll jump in for a swim
When the lights go dim
(Repeat Chorus)
Interlude: A--E/G#--
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
Bridge:
I mean a new start
I've broken too many hearts
And I don't have any
clue where to go I don't know
But maybe I'll be back
someday after my holiday
Verse 3:
When I was younger I used to be wild
As wild as an elephant's child
And I don't think I'll ever change
I think I'm gonna stay the same
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro:
A new start
I've broken too many hearts
And I don't have any
clue where to go
I don't know
But maybe I'll be back
someday after my holiday
The Great Escape Bridge repeated in this song
All of the wasted time
The hours that were left behind
The answers that we'll never find
A B E D--C#m--A-B
They don't mean a thing tonight
E--D--C#m--A--B-E