When You're On Top
words and music by Jakob Dylan
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NOTE: There isn't a guitar in the recording for the first verse
but live (Alcatraz) there's a guitar playing one of the
keyboard parts.
Chords:
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INTRO (keyboard arr for guitar)
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I need a bed
That nobody’s slept in
I need some air
That nobody’s been breathing
I need a thought
That I can believe in
Is this fog
Or is the building really burning
I need you now
Much more than ever
I’m making new friends
But none of them matter
Maybe now
We don’t fit together
But you’ve got your arms around
No one but strangers
(chorus)
I feel fine
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I ‘m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
I want to wake up
And just start running
Into a ditch
Or straight up a mountain
I want to get
Where no ones’s been gettin’
Make it deeper than hell
Or make it higher than heaven
I need someone whose price hasn’t been met
When everybody’s disappearing
By the minute
There isn’t anyone left
That I haven’t met yet
Well I remember
When they hadn’t gotten to you yet
(chorusx2)
(bridge)
Half way up
And over this rainbow
I heard a shot
Fire up from the ghetto
As I drop
I didn’t think you’d follow
Just didn’t know ..............
The sky was this shallow
(solo
use tremalo)
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play around with those notes.
I need a garden
Where nothings forbidden
I need an apple
That no one’s been eatin’
I want to start again
Back at the beginin’
I had a vision
That this feeling maybe has an ending
(Chorus)
DURING VERSE
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DURING CHORUS (you could just pick these or change chord(see top)
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Enjoy!