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Forever Song Tab

by Josh Pyke


Josh Pyke
- Forever Song

Drop-D tuning  DADGBE
(capo at second fret - chord names are not transposed)

INTRO:
      Badd2

Eadd4    Eadd4  

VERSE:
                    Badd2
  we sleep together  while all around us
                                
  peo-ple kill each other where they lie
                        Badd2
  they lie together  till they find someone better
                            
  try and negotiate that slow de-mise

VERSE:
                              Badd2
  but I just can't credit  that type of effort for a
                               
  piece of nothing on the edge of a knife
                        Badd2
  sli-ces you so thin  you dry like sheets in the wind
                                      
  hold a candle behind through you see the light

LINK:
' 'Badd2    G#m11  *

Badd2  Bsus2/4  Badd2  `

CHORUS:
      Badd2                  `
  I want the song I can sing for-ever I don't
                              
  care for structure just to know it's mine
        Badd2                  `
  I'd hate to see this thing we've developed be-
                   Badd2
  come your burden or my waste of
                         (2/4 bar)
TAG:
   `    `          `    `
time     my waste of time______

RE-INTRO:
      Badd2

Eadd4    Eadd4  

VERSE:
                            Badd2
  the afternoon can  bring with it shallow moods but
                                   
  I'd jump a harbour wall to clear your mind
                          Badd2
  I  quarter the years  you drop the sails till we're clear
                                          
  I'll look for reefs you map the stars in the night

VERSE:
                            Badd2
  and his-tory tells us  of worlds we'll know nothing of
                                
  then retro-spect becomes a shackle tight on
                   Badd2
  the ankles of us  so in the future we trust
                                         
  we cross our fingers like some kids telling lies

LINK:
' 'Badd2    G#m11  *

Badd2  Bsus2/4  Badd2  `

CHORUS:
      Badd2                  `
  I want the song I can sing for-ever I don't
                              
  care for structure just to know it's mine
        Badd2                  `
  I'd hate to see this thing we've developed be-
                   Badd2    
  come your burden or my waste of time

CHORUS-2:
     Badd2                       `
  I wan-na know that I know what I'm talking about
                            
  until I do well all the walls seem white
        Badd2                        `
  but when I'm sure that I know what I'm talking about
                            Badd2
  I'll take your burden if you'll say it's
                                 (2/4 bar)
TAG:
   `      `          `    `
mine_____ you say it's mine______ say it's
   `      `          `    `
mine_____ you say it's mine_________

OUTRO:
      Badd2

Eadd4/9

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TUNING:  6 5 4 3 2 1
Drop-        

CHORDS:  (Notes at Fret-2 are held by the capo)
          Badd2  Eadd4           G#m11  *  /4  Eadd4/9
E|-----------------2---------------------------2-----2-----2------2--------2---|
B|-12---14---2-----2------9-----10----9---10---2-----2-----2------2--------9---|
G|-13---14---9-----8------2-----2-----9---11---6-----4-----2------9--------7---|
D|-13---14---11----9------9-----9-----9---11---7-----6-----4------9--------9---|
A|-11---12---11----9------7-----7-----7---9----7-----6-----4------9--------7---|
D|-----------11----9------2-----2-----2--------7-----6-----4------9--------2---|

The song can be played in standard tuning without the capo by simply
ignoring the extensions and using familiar chords:  E F#m G#m A B C#m