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Awakening Tab

by Switchfoot


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  /G#m)

                                                  
             
   Facedown with the LA curbside ending    with the ones and zeros
                                                   
        
   Downtown was a perfect place to hide
                        
            
   First star that I saw last night was the headlight of a manmade sky    But
                            
            
   Man made never made our dreams collide       collide

                                                           
Here we are now with the fallen sky and the rain          Were awakening
                                                            
Here we are now with the desperate youth and pain          Were awakening
                                       
            
Maybe it's called ambition   You've been talking in your sleep about a dream
      
We're awakening

                                               
   last week spent living it up in dealines and the dead beats now but
                                                  
   this town doesn't look the same tonight
                                                
   these dreams start sing to me out of no where and all my live I
                                                 
   don't know that I've ever felt so alive           alive

Chorus
                                    
We're awakening

                  
     I wanna wake up kicking and screaming

     I wanna wake up kicking and screaming
                       
     I wanna heart that I know is beating,

     is beating, i'm bleading

                  
     I wanna wake up kicking and screaming

     I wanna live like I know what I'm leaving
                       
     I wanna heart that I know is beating

     It's beating,   It's beating,    It's beating     I'm bleeding

Chorus

      (silent}                   
We're Awakening a Dream      We're Awakening


Jon, they guy who wrote the song, plays it on an acoustic and drops D. during the chorus
the song he plays an Esus [?79900] E/D# [X69900] A [7X9900]. During the verse he either
all the strings and lets the rest of the band play the melody cause he stays in the Esus 
Could possibly be playing [XX9900] and just lets the Tim (bass player) play
bass notes. But I play the chords without a bass player; I won't tell if you don't.

The intro/riff at the top has a chord progression in parentheses. Drew Shirley, the Lead
plays these as octaves E [x7x9xx] F#[x9x'11'xx] and so up the neck.

I chorded the song off of a cell phone recording so the lyrics are only as good as the
When the cd comes out with the lyrics actually audible don't hold it against me.

Also, I'm a music major who plays guitar and bass, so the root chord structure is right.
you don't know music yet learn your major and minor scales; they help a ton.

Enjoy!