THE BEST YET ALBUM SWITCHFOOT
Tabbed by:hurricaneherman
Here are the chords for Switchfoot's album The Best Yet.
TRACK LIST:
1:Dare You To Move
2:Meant To Live
3:Stars
4:Oh! Gravity
5:This Is Home
6:Learning To Breathe
7:Awakening
8:This Is Your Life
9:On Fire
10:Only Hope
11:Dirty Second Hands
12:Love Is The Movement
13:Company Car
14:Lonely Nation
15:The Shadow Proves The Sunshine
16:Concrete Girl
17:Twenty-Four
18:The Beautiful Letdown
1.DARE YOU TO MOVE SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
X2
~VERSE~
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here everyone's here
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next what happens next
~CHORUS~ NOTE:Only play (BEFORE) the first time.
I dare you to move I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move I dare you to move
N.
Like today never happened today never happened (before)
~INTERLUDE~ Play the intro riff.
Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here the tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be Yeah
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~BRIDGE~
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself
Where you gonna go where you gonna go
Salvation is here
~INTERLUDE~
I decided to tab this interlude out, because it's not really chords.
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NOTE:These are 10's 12's and 14's.
NOTE:These are whole bends.
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~OUTRO CHORUS~
I dare you to move I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move I dare you to move
Like today never happened today never happened
Today never happened today it never happened before
*chords used
END
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2.MEANT TO LIVE SWITCHFOOT
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
~VERSE~
(let ring)
Fumbling his confidence and wondering why the world has passed him
By
(let ring)
Hoping that he's bent for more than arguments and failed attempts to
Fly fly
~CHORUS~
We were meant to live for so much more have we lost ourselves
Somewhere we live inside somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more have we lost ourselves
Somewhere we live inside
~INTERLUDE~
~VERSE~
(let ring)
Dreaming about providence and whether mice or men have second
Tries
(let ring)
Maybe we've been living with our eyes half open maybe where bent and
Broken broken oh
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~INTERLUDE~
~BRIDGE~
We want more than this worlds got to offer
We want more than this worlds got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life yeah
~OUTRO CHORUS~
We were meant to live for so much more have we lost ourselves
We were meant to live for so much more have we lost ourselves
We were meant to live for so much more have we lost ourselves
We were meant to live we were meant to live
*Chords used
END
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3.STARS SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Intro is in drop tuning, but the rest of the song is standard.
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
If you don't want to detune, you can just play the chord through the
entire intro.
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~VERSE~
Maybe I've been the problem maybe I'm the one to blame
But even when I turn it off and blame myself the outcome feels the same
I've been thinking maybe I've been partly cloudy maybe I'm the chance of rain
and maybe I'm overcast and maybe all my lucks washed down the drain
~PRE-CHORUS~
I've been thinking 'bout everyone everyone you look so lonely
~CHORUS~
But when I look at the stars when I look at the stars
When I look at the stars I see someone else
When I look at the stars the stars
I feel like myself
~INTERLUDE~ Play second half of Riff 2.
~VERSE~ (Chords are the same as first verse)
Stars looking at a planet watching entropy and pain
And maybe start to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane
I've been thinking 'bout the meaning of Resistance of a hope beyond my own
And suddenly the infinite and penitent begin to look like home
I've been thinking 'bout everyone everyone you look so empty
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~REPEAT INTERLUDE~
~BRIDGE~
(Play second half of riff 2)
Stars
Stars
~PRE-CHORUS~
Everyone everyone we feel so lonely
Everyone yeah everyone we feel so empty
~OUTRO-CHORUS~
N.
When I look at the stars when I look at the stars
When I look at the stars I feel like myself (play second half of riff 2)
When I look at the stars the stars
N.
I see someone
~OUTRO~
play riff 2 twice.
*Chords used
END
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4.OH! GRAVITY SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
~VERSE~
There's a fracture in the color bar
In the backseat of a parked car
By the liquor store where the street light
Keep you company 'til the next night
In the same town there's the same scar
In the same glow of the liquor store
By the freeway where the headlight
Keep her company 'til the next night
~CHORUS~
Oh! gravity why can't we seem to keep it together
()
Sons of my enemies why can't we seem to keep it together
~INTERLUDE~ A X X X
X X X
NOTE:On these tone clusters, I like playing this.
~VERSE~
In the back room of the pentagon
There's a thin man with a line drawn
With a red jaw and a red bite
Watch the headline on the next night
~REPEAT CHORUS~
Why this tragedy why can't we seem to keep it together
()
Oh gravity why can't we seem to pull it together
~BRIDGE~
In the fallout the fallout we found out the hype wont get you through
We're connected connected I meant it the hype wont get you through through
~OUTRO-CHORUS~
Oh gravity why can't we seem to keep it together
Oh gravity why can't we seem to pull it together
Why this tragedy why can't we seem to keep it together
Oh gravity why can't we seem to pull it together
()
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
() N.
La la la la la la la la la la lets pull it together
*Chords used
END
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5.THIS IS HOME SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
NOTE: = type 1, and = type two. These different types are both
listed at the end.
~INTRO~
X6 NOTE:Keeps repeating throughout entire verse.
~VERSE~
I've got my memories always inside of me
But I can't go back back to how it was
()
I believe you now I've come to far
No I can't go back back to how it was
~PRE-CHORUS~
Created for a place I've never known
~CHORUS~
()
This is home now I'm finally where I belong where I belong
Yeah this is home I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it maybe this is home yeah this is home
~VERSE~
()
Belief over misery I've seen the enemy
And I wont go back back to how it was
And I got my heart set on what happens next
I got my eyes wide it's not over yet
We are miracles and we're not alone yeah
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~BRIDGE~
And now after all my searching after all my questions
I'm gonna call it home
I've got a brand new mind set I can finally see the sunset
I'm gonna call it home
~OUTRO-CHORUS~
Home
This is home now I'm finally where I belong where I belong
Yeah this is home I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it maybe this is home
This is home
Now I know yeah this is home
I've come to far and I wont go back yeah this is home
*Chords used
END
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6.LEARNING TO BREATHE SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
~VERSE~
Hello good morning how you do
What makes your rising sun so new
I could use a fresh beginning too
All of my regrets are nothing new
~PRE-CHORUS~
So this is the way that I say I need you
This is the way this is the way
~CHORUS~
()
That I'm learning to breathe I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that you and you alone can break my fall
I'm living again awake and alive
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies
~VERSE~
Hello good morning how you been
Yesterday left my head kicked in
()
I never never thought that I would fall like that
Never knew that I could hurt this bad
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~BRIDGE~
These abundant skies
Yeah abundant skies Yeah
()
This is the way that I say I need you
This is the way that I say I love you
This is the way that I say I'm yours
This is the way this is the way
~OUTRO-CHORUS~
That I'm learning to breathe I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that you and you alone can break my fall
I'm living again awake and alive
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies
Yes I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies
These abundant skies yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Learning to breathe I'm dying to breathe
In these abundant skies hello good morning how you do
~OUTRO~
*Chords used
END
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7.AWAKENING SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
X[4]
~VERSE~
Face down with the L.A curbside endings
With the ones and zeros
Downtown was the perfect place to hide
The first star that I saw last night was a headlight
Of a man made sky but
Man made never made our dreams collide collide
~CHORUS~
Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain
We're awakening
Here we are now with our desp'rate youth and the pain
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition you've been talking in your sleep
About a dream (we're awakening) NOTE:Only sing the lines in the parentheses
the first time.
~INTERLUDE~
~VERSE~ (Chords are the same as first verse)
Last week found me living for nothing but deadlines
With my deadbeat sky but
This town doesn't look the same tonight
These dreams started singing to me out of no where
And in all my life I
Don't know if I've ever felt so alive alive
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~BRIDGE~
We're awakening
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to now that my heart's still beating
It's beating I'm bleeding
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to live like I know what I'm leaving
I want to know that my hearts still beating
It's beating it's beating it's beating
I'm bleeding
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~OUTRO~
We're awakening dream
We're awakening yeah!
*Chords used
END
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8.THIS IS YOUR LIFE SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
X[4]
~VERSE~
Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes don't close your eyes
This is your life
And today is all you've got now and
And today is all you ever had
Don't close your eyes don't close your eyes
~CHORUS~
This is your life are you who you want to be
This is your life are you who you want to be
This is your life is it everything you dreamed
That it would be when the world was younger
And you had everything to lose
~VERSE~
Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~INTERLUDE~
~BRIDGE~
Don't close your eyes don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes don't close your eyes
~OUTRO-CHORUS~
This is your life are you who you want to be
This is your life are you who you want to be
Yeah yeah yeah are you who you want to be
This is your life who you want to be
This is your life is it everything you dreamed
That it would be when the world was younger
And you had everything to lose
You had everything to lose
~OUTRO~ NOTE:It starts fading out once you reach the repeat sign.
X[2]
*Chords used
END
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9.ON FIRE SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
~VERSE~
They tell you where you need to go
They tell you when you need to leave
They tell you what you need to know
Tell you who you need to be
But everything inside you knows
There's more than what you've heard
There's so much more than empty conversations
Filled with empty words
~CHORUS~
And you're on fire when he's near you
You're on fire when he speaks
You're on fire burning at these mysteries
~VERSE~
Give me one more time around
Give me one more chance to see
Give me everything you are
Give me one more chance to be near you and
When everything inside me
Looks like everything I hate
You are the hope I have for change
You are the only chance I'll take
~CHORUS~
When I'm on fire when you're near me
I'm on fire when you speak
I'm on fire burning at these mysteries
Mysteries Mysteries
~INTERLUDE~
~BRIDGE~
I'm standing on the edge of me
I'm standing on the edge of me
I'm standing on the edge of me
I'm standing on the edge of me
I'm standing on the edge of everything
I've never been before
And I've been standing on the edge of me
Standing on the edge
~CHORUS~
And I'm on fire when you're near me
I'm on fire when you speak
Yeah I'm on fire burning out these mysteries
These mysteries These mysteries
Yeah your mysteries yeah your mystery
~OUTRO~
()
*Chords used
END
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10.ONLY HOPE SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
X[2]
~VERSE~
There's a song that's inside of my soul
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
~CHORUS~
()
So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray to be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope
~INTERLUDE~ ()
~VERSE~ (Chords are the same as verse 1)
Sing to me of the song of the stars
Of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again
When it feels like my dreams are so far
Sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again
~REPEAT CHORUS~
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
~INTERLUDE~
~BRIDGE~
()
I give you my apathy
I'm giving you all of me
I want your symphony Singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs
()
I'm giving it back
~CHORUS~
And I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray to be only yours
I pray to be only yours I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope
~OUTRO~
()
*Chords used
END
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11.DIRTY SECOND HANDS SWITCHFOOT
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
I tabbed this out because there are no chords.
NOTE:If you don't want to play any riffs, you can play for the entire
~VERSE~
Please don't be so naive
()
You know you're not foo-ling anyone
(
You're not as tough as you think
()
With dirty second hands the dirty second hands
()
Can't get nothing for free
()
It becomes so predictable
()
You start fighting to breathe
()
The dirty second hands your dirty second hands
~CHORUS~
Here's the face of everything that brakes you down
But now you face the face of everything that brakes you down
~VERSE~ (Chords are the same as verse 1)
With an army of me
We invent our own enemies
Man versus machine
And the dirty second hands the dirty second hands
In the land of the free
And the home of the remedy
The old clock is a thief
With dirty second hands with dirty second hands
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~BRIDGE~ NOTE:You keep repeating the intro riff all the way through
The bridge, until the chords come in, or you can just play throughout.
Are you really as tough as you think
You blink and you're over the brink
You bleed but the blood runs pink
With dirty second hands dirty second hands
You're not quite as tough as you thought
You bought the American rot
The very seed that you thought you shot
With dirty second hands dirty second hands
You might be right the fight might be right inside you
The blind leading the lied to
Tonight maybe you bind you with dirty second hands
Here's the face of everything that brakes you down
You bind you with dirty second hands
Now you face the face of everything that brakes you down
You bind you with dirty second hands
Now you face the face of everything that brakes you down
~OUTRO~
Play the intro riff once, and then end on .
*Chords used
END
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12.LOVE IS THE MOVEMENT SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
~VERSE~
()
A day in L.A and millions of faces
Are looking for a movement
()
'Cause everything's stuck and everything's frozen
And everyone's broken
()
And nobody moves and everyone's scared
That the motion will never come
~PRE-CHORUS~
()
This is the incompletion
Stuck in a line
~CHORUS~
()
Love is the movement love is a revolution
() A
This is redemption we don't have to slow back down
~INTERLUDE~
~VERSE~ (Chords are same as verse 1)
The stars are alive they dance to the music
Of the deepest emotion
And all of the world is singing in time
As the heavens are caving in
Mysterious ways why god gave his life
To put motion inside my soul
~PRE-CHORUS~ (Chords same as pre-chorus 1)
It's bigger than cold religion
It's bigger than life
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~BRIDGE~
We're starting now we're starting now
Yeah we're starting now we don't have to slow back down
Yeah Yeah
~INTERLUDE~
~OUTRO~
This is a revolution this is a revolution
Love is the movement Love is a revolution
This is redemption we don't have to slow back down
Love is the movement love is a revolution
We have redemption we don't have to slow back down
Love is the movement
*Chords used
END
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13.COMPANY CAR SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
~VERSE~
Mike was right when he said I'd put up a fight
To be someone a fight to be me but see
Now I'm down under the pavement
Of capitol hills and lowercase people
~PRE-CHORUS~
As time rolls by my dreams have become
That which is attainable not what I'm looking for
~CHORUS~
I've got the company car
I'm the one swinging at two below par
Yeah I've become one with the ones that I've never believed in
But I've got the company car
~VERSE~ (Chords are same as verse 1)
Hey I'm the king of things I've always despised
I'm the gingerbread man who got eaten alive
I'm half baked I'm fake but see I've got hotels
On park place and boardwalk and two hundred bucks I pass
~PRE-CHORUS~ (Chords are same as pre-chorus 1)
Go but oh life's taken its toll
Have I won monopoly to forfeit my soul
But see
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~BRIDGE~
N. N.
Yeah all the kings horses at the foot of the wall
N. N.
They're taking pictures of the man who lost all
Of his masks of pretension he's got two faces left
(let ring throughout)
His is the one that he hides on the left behind that smile
Hiding tears and fears that burn like an engine
It drives him away from the ones that he loves
~VERSE~
Mike was right hey mike we're one and the same
We're the faceless combatants in the loneliest game
~PRE-CHORUS~
Ah but say I'll wave as I'm driving by
With that smirk in my eye yelling
Hey I'm something man check me out
~OUTRO-CHORUS~
I've got the company car
I'm the one swinging at two below par
Yeah I've become one with the ones that I've never believed in
But I've got the company car yeah check me out
I've got the company car yeah check me out
I've got the company car yeah
*Chords used
END
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14.LONELY NATION SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~INTRO~
~VERSE~
()
She turns like the ocean she tells no emotion
She's been gunning down the fight
She's just reminiscing blood sweat and one thing's missing
She's been breaking up inside inside
~CHORUS~
() |
Singing without tongues screaming without lungs - - - - - |1
() |
I want more than my lonely nation - - - - - - - - - - - - |2
I want more than my lonely nation - - - - - - - - - - - - |3
Desp'rate we are young sep'rate we are one - - - - - - - -|4
I want more than my desperation - - - - - - - - - - - - - |5
I want more than my lonely nation - - - - - - - - - - - - |6
~INTERLUDE~
Oh Oh
~VERSE~
We are the target market we set the corp'rate target
We are slaves of what we want
We're just numb and mused and we're just used to bad news
And we are slaves of what we want
~REPEAT CHORUS~ NOTE:Sing lines in this order(1-5-6-4-2-3) they are numbered.
~BRIDGE~
N.
Oh lonely lonely
Don't leave me hollow I'm tired don't leave me hollow
I'm tired of feeling low of feeling hollow
I'm tired of feeling low of feeling hollow
I'm tired of feeling low of feeling hollow
I'm tired of feeling low of feeling hollow
Of feeling hollow of feeling hollow
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~OUTRO~
N.
Oh oh
*Chords used
END
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15.THE SHADOW PROVES THE SUNSHINE SWITCHFOOT
Tuning:Standard
*Chords listed at end
~VERSE~
Sunshine won't you be my mother sunshine come and help me sing
()
My heart is darker than these oceans my heart is frozen underneath
We are
~CHORUS~ NOTE:Sing SOULS, the first and third time, and SOUL the second.
Crooked soul(s) tryin' to stay up straight dry eyes in the pouring rain where
The shadow proves the sunshine the shadow proves the sunshine
()
Two scared little run a ways hold fast till the brake of daylight where
()
The shadow proves the sunshine the shadow proves the sunshine
~VERSE~ (Chords are the same as verse 1)
Oh lord why did you forsake me oh lord don't be far away away
Storm clouds gathering beside me please lord don't look the other way
I'm a
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~BRIDGE~
Yeah yeah shine on me yeah yeah shine on me
()
Yeah yeah shine on me Shine on me oh
Yeah
~REPEAT CHORUS~
~OUTRO~
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