1. Square One
-- (2x)
You're in control, is there anywhere you wanna go?
You're in control, is there anything you wanna know?
The future's for discovering
The space in which we're travelling
Interlude: (Synthesizer plays intro)
Refrain:
From the top of the first page
To the end of the last day
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
-
Under the surface trying to break through
-
Deciphering the codes in you
-
I need a compass, draw me a map
--
I'm on the top, I can't get back
-
Whoa...
Refrain: (play refrain chords)
The first line on the first page
To the end of the last page
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
-- (3X)
It doesn't matter who you are
You just want
Somebody listening to what you say
Oh, you just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are
(SYNTHESIZER)
Is there anybody out there who
Is lost and hurt and lonely too
Are they bleeding all your colours into one?
and if you come undone
As if you've been run through, some catapult it fired you
You wonder if your chance will ever come
Or if you're stuck in square one...
2. What If
Tuning:EADGBe
Chords are:
What if there was no light
Nothing wrong, nothing right
What if there was no time
And no reason or rhyme
What if you should decide?
That you don't want be there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life
What if I got it wrong?
And no poem or song
Could put right what I got wrong
Or make you feel I belong?
And what if you should decide
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life
Ooh, that's right
Lets take a breath jump over the side
Ooh, that's right
How can you know it if you don't even try?
Ooh, that's right
Every step that you take
Could be your biggest mistake
It could bend or it could break
That's the risk that you take
And what if you should decide
That you don't want me there in your life
That you don't want me there by your side
Ooh, that's right
Lets take a breath jump over the side
Ooh, that's right
How can you know it when you don't even try
Ooh, that's right
Oooooooooooooo
Ooh, that's right
Lets take a breath jump over the side
Ooh, that's right
You know that darkness has turned into light
Ooh that's right
3. White Shadows
Chords Used (relative to Acoustic w/capo on 2nd fret, chords in parentheses are actual
chords)
() - 244222
() - x02220
() - x24432
() - 022100
()- x46654
() - x00232
/RIFF 1 - Main Elec. Guitar Part w/ lots of delay and reverb (chords above played
acoustic guitar w capo 2)
When I was a young boy I tried to listen
And I wanna feel like that
Little white shadows blink and miss them
Part of a system, I am
REPEAT INTRO/RIFF 1 1x
(With RIFF 2)
If you ever feel like something's missing
Things you'll never understand
Little white shadows
Sparkle and glisten
Part of a system, a plan
(with RIFF 2)
When I was a young boy I tried to listen
Don't you wanna feel like that?
You're part of the human race
All of the stars and the outer space
Part of the system, a plan
PRECHORUS 1&2 - Rhythm Acoustic Guitar
All this noise, I'm waking up
All this space, I'm taking up
I cannot hear you're breaking up
Ohhhhhhhh
PRECHORUS 1&2 - Elec. Guitar RIFF 3 (above chords are once again rhythm acoustic guitar
capo 2)
-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-x2--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-x2--|
Maybe you'll get what you wanted
maybe you'll stumble upon it
Everything you ever wanted
In a permanent state
(Same chords as above)
Maybe you'll know when you see it
Maybe if you say it, you'll mean it
And when you find it you'll keep it
In a permanent state, a permanent state
e-16-16-16-14--14-16-14--16-16-16-14--14-16-14--16-16-16-14--14-16-14--|
- Organ transcribed for Rhythm Acoustic Guitar
Swam on a sea of faces
A tide of the human races
Oh, an answer now is what I need
(same chords as above)
See it in a new sun rising
See it break on your horizon
Oh, come on love, stay with me
4. Fix You
For album pitch, use Capo 1.
and Vs. 1 & 2:
Lights will guide you home... (x3)
Link / Verse 3 (strum):
Lights will guide you home... (x3)
Solo:
||||||||| x4
Trio:
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face...and
I-I-I-I-I............
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face...and
I-I-I-I-I............
Lights will guide you home... (x2)
and I will try to fix you.
5. Talk
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Oh brother I can't, I can't get through
I've been trying hard to meet you 'cause I don't know what to do
-
Oh brother I can't believe it's true
I'm so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you
-
Oh I wanna talk to you
REFRAIN:
(adlib)
You can take a picture of something you see
(adlib)
In the future where will I be?
(adlib)
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done
Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how do you feel?
Well I feel like they're
Talking in a language I don't speak and they're talking it to me
REFRAIN:
(adlib)
So you take a picture of something you see
(adlib)
In the future where will I be?
(adlib)
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done
(Instrumental)
REFRAIN 2: (PLAY REFRAIN 1 CHORDS)
So you don't know where you're going and you wanna talk
And you feel like you're going where you've been before
You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored
Nothing's really making any sense at all
CODA: (play -)
Let's talk
Let's talk
Let's talk
Let's talk
6. VERSE:
Trying hard to speak and
Fighting with my weak hand
Driven to distraction
So part of the plan
When something is broken
And you try to fix it
Trying to repair it
Any way you can
(Synthesizer)
I'm diving off the deep end
You become my best friend
I wanna love you
But I don't know if I can
I know something is broken
And I'm trying to fix it
Trying to repair it
Any way I can
- - -
Ooh ooh ooh ooh...
REFRAIN:
You and me are floating on a tidal wave together
You and me are drifting into outer space and singing
- - -
Ooh ooh ooh ooh...
INSTRUMENTAL: (in the tune of the verse)
REFRAIN:
You and me are floating on a tidal wave together
You and me are drifting into outer space
You and me are floating on a tidal wave together
You and me are drifting into outer space and singing
- - - - - -
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh...
7. Speed of Sound
How long before I get in
Before it starts, before I begin?
How long before you decide
Before I know what it feels like?
Where to, where do I go?
If you never try, then you'll never know
How long do I have to climb
Up on the side of this mountain of mine?
Interlude: (play intro chords)
Look up, I look up at night
Planets are moving at the speed of light
Climb up, up in the trees
Every chance that you get is a chance you seize
How long am I gonna stand
With my head stuck under the sand?
I'll start before I can stop
Before I see things the right way up
Refrain:
All that noise, and all that sound
All those places that I doth found
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
Interlude: (play intro chords)
Ideas that you'll never find
Or the inventors could never design
The buildings that you put up
Japan and China all lit up
The sign that I couldn't read
Or the light that I couldn't see
Some things you have to believe
But others are puzzles, puzzling me
Refrain:
All that noise, and all that sound
All those places that I doth found
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
-
If you could see it then you'd understand
Bridge:
All those signs, I knew what they meant
Some things you can't invent
Some get made, and some get sent
Ooh
Refrain:
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
- - - -
If you could see it then you'd understand
8. A Message
Standard tuning
EADGBE
My song is love
Love to the loveless shown
And it goes up
You don't have to be alone
Your heavy heart
Is made of stone
And it's so hard to see you clearly
You don't have to be on your own
You don't have to be on your own
And I'm not gonna take it back
Well I'm not gonna say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
And I get that message home
My song is love
My song is love, unknown
I'm on fire for you, clearly
You don't have to be alone
You don't have to be on your own
And I'm not gonna take it back
And, I'm not gonna say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
But I'm nothing on my own
Got to get that message home
And I'm not gonna stand and wait
not gonna leave it until it's much too late
On a platform, I'm gonna stand and say
That I'm nothing on my own
And I love you, please come home
My song is love, is love unknown
And I've got to get that message home
9. Low
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
022000
xx0230
x24432
332010 (which is actually , well I like it)
x02220
320003
You see the world in black and white
No colour or light
You think you'll never get it right
But you're wrong you might
The sky could fall could fall on me
The parting of the seas
But you mean more mean more to me
Than any colour I can see
All you ever wanted was love
But you never looked hard enough
It's never gonna give itself up
And all you ever wanted to be
Living in perfect symmetry
Nothing is as down on Earth as us
as us
You see the world in black and white
Not painted right
You see no meaning to your life
Yes you try
Yes you try
And all you ever wanted was love
But you never looked hard enough
It's never gonna give itself up
And all you ever wanted to be
Living in perfect symmetry
Nothing is as down on this Earth
Don't you want to see it come soon
Floating in a big white balloon
Or given on your own silver spoon
Don't you want to see it come down
Careful throwing your arms around
Saying not a moment too soon
Cause I feel low
Cause I feel low
Oh, yeah I feel low
Oh no
Oh
10. The Hardest Part
And the hardest part
Was letting go, not taking part
It's the hardest part
And the strangest thing
Was waiting for that bell to ring
It was the strangest start
I could feel it go down
Bittersweet I could taste in my mouth
Silver lining the cloud
Oh and I...
I wish that I could work it out
And the hardest part
Was letting go, not taking part
You really broke my heart...oh
And I tried to sing
But I couldn't think of anything
And that was the hardest part
I could feel it go down
You left the sweetest taste in my mouth
Silver lining the clouds
Oh and I
Oh and I
I wonder what it's all about
I wonder what it's all about
Everything I know is wrong
Everything I do, it just comes undone
-
And everything is torn a part
Oh and it's the hardest part
That's the hardest part
Yeah that's the hardest part
(Outtro)
That's the hardest part
11. Swallowed in the sea
You cut me down a tree
And brought it back to me
And that's what made me see
Where I was going wrong
You put me on a shelf
And kept me for yourself
I can only blame myself
You can only blame me
And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong to me
And I could write it down
Or spread it all around
Get lost and then get found
Or swallowed in the sea
You put me on a line
And hung me out to dry
And darling that's when I
Decided to go to see you
You cut me down to size
And opened up my eyes
Made me realize
What I could not see
And I could write a book
The one they'll say that shook
The world, and then it took
It took it back from me
And I could write it down
Or spread it all around
Get lost and then get found
And you'll come back to me
Not swallowed in the sea
And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong with me
The streets you're walking on
A thousand houses long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong with me
Oh what good is it to live
With nothing left to give
Forget but not forgive
Not loving all you see
Oh the streets you're walking on
A thousand houses long
Well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
You belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
Yeah, you belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
12. Twisted Logic
Sunlight, opened up my eyes
To see for the first time
You'll open them up
And tonight, rivers will run dry
And not for the first time
Rivers will run
Hundreds of years in the future
It could be computers
Looking for life on earth
Don't fight for the wrong side
Say what you feel like
Say how you feel
You'll go backwards, but then
You'll go forwards again
You'll go backwards, but then
You'll go
Created, then drilled and invaded
If somebody made it
Someone will mess it up
And you are not wrong to
Ask who does this belong to
It belongs to all of us
You'll go backwards, but then
You'll go forwards again
You'll go backwards, but then
you'll go forwards
You'll go backwards, but then
you'll go forwards again
You'll go backwards, but then
You'll go forwards
enjoyeth
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