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Switchfoot
The blues
Intro: D G D G C
D G
Is this the New Year or just another night?
D G
Is this the new fear or just another fright?
Em G D G
Is this the new tear or just another desperation?
Bm G
Is this the finger or just another fist?
Bm G
Is this the kingdom or just a hit n' miss?
Em G Bm G
A misdirection, most in all this desperation
D A
Is this what they call freedom?
Bm
Is this what you call pain?
G D
Is this what they call discontented fame?
A
It'll be a day like this one
Bm
When the world caves in
G
When the world caves in
D G C
When the world caves in
Bm G
I'm singing this one like a broken piece of glass
Bm G
From broken arms an' broken noses in the back
Em G Bm G
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?
D A
You're pushing till you're shoving
Bm
You bend until you break
G D
Till you stand on the broken fields where our fathers lay
A
It'll be a day like this one
Bm
When the world caves in
G
When the world caves in
D G
When the world caves in
D G
When the world caves in
D G
When the world caves in
Em F#m A
When the world caves in
D A
There's nothing here worth saving,
Bm
Is no one here at all?
G D
Is there any net left that could break our fall?
A
It'll be a day like this one
Bm G
When the sky falls down and the hungry and poor and
D
deserted are found
A Bm
Are you discontented? Have you been pushing hard?
G
Have you been through and down this broken house of
D
cards?
A
It'll be a day like this one
Bm
When the world caves in
G
When the world caves in
D G D G
When the world caves in
Bm
Is there nothing left now?
G
Nothing left to sing
Bm G
Are there any left who haven't kissed the enemy?
Em G Bm D
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?
A Bm
Just as I could find you, do the wicked never lose?
G D
Is there any honest song to sing besides these blues?
A
And nothing is okay
Bm
Till the world caves in
G
Till the world caves in
D
Till the world caves in
A
Till the world caves in
Bm
Till the world caves in
G
Until the world caves in
D
Until the world caves in
A
Until the world caves in
Bm
Until the world caves in
G
Until the world caves in
D
Until the world caves in
A
X 0 2 2 2 0
- 5 7 7 6 5 5
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Bm
X 2 4 4 3 2
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C
X 3 2 0 1 0
- X 3 2 0 1 3
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D
X X 0 2 3 2
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Em
0 2 2 0 0 0
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- X X 2 0 0 3
- X X 2 4 0 3
- 0 2 2 0 0 3
- 0 2 2 4 0 3
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- 0 7 5 0 0 0
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- X 7 9 9 8 0
F#m
2 4 4 2 2 2
- X X 4 2 2 2
- 2 X 4 2 2 2
- X 9 11 11 10 9
G
3 2 0 0 0 3
- 3 2 0 0 0 X
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- X X 5 4 3 3
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