From: Sekhar Narayanaswami
I’M ALIVE === Jackson Browne
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Here’s the latest by Jackson Browne, off
The album of the same name.
Intro:
E A E A
E A E B
E A
It’s been a long time since I watched these lights alone
E A
I look around my life tonight and you are gone
E A
I might have done something to keep you if I’d known
E B
How unhappy you’d become
E
Well I was dreaming of you
A
With my heart in your hands
E
And I was following through
C#m B
With my beautiful plans
E C#m B
E A E
Yeah, now I’m rolling down this canyon drive
C#m B
With your laughter in my head
E A E
Gonna have to block it out somehow to survive
B (tacet)
‘cuz those dreams are dead
E A E A
But I’m alive
E A
I want to go where I will never hear your name
E A
I want to lose my sorrow and be free again
E A
And I know I’ve been insane
E B
When I think of the places I could’ve been
E
But I was dreaming of you
A
With my heart in your hands
E
And I was following through
C#m B
With my beautiful plans
E C#m B
(solo)
E E
A
Standing here by the highway side
E
Watching these trucks blow by
C#m
Inches from my face
B E
Yeah, thinking about the time I’ve wasted
(Dreaming of you)
A
And the pleasure we once tasted
(Dreaming of you)
E
Looking up and down this road
(Following through)
C#m B
I’ve been here before
(Following through)
C#m B
Can’t be here no more
(Dreaming of you)
C#m B
(Dreaming of you)
E A E
Yeah, now I’m rolling down this California five
C#m B
With your laughter in my head
E A E
Gonna have to block it out somehow to survive
B (tacet)
‘cuz those dreams are dead
E A E A
But I’m alive
E A
Look at the way I believed in you and loved you all these years
E A
Now you could fill a swimming pool with all my salty tears
E A
You told me what was in your heart but baby you lied
E A
And I thought that it would kill me, but I’m alive!
Chords Used:
E: 022100 (or x79997)
A: x02220 (or 577655)
B: x24442 (or 799877)
C#m: x46654 (or 911999)
( 11 )
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-> i.e. 9-11-11-9-9-9
The words in paren’s are background vocals. Tacet means (or at least
I mean) to break off strumming, i.e. there’s no music played while
Singing «But I’m alive».
