Jackson Browne

Im Alive

Jackson Browne


Tom: E

Intro: 
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It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone 
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I look around my life tonight and you are gone 
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i might have done something to keep you if I'd known 
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  How unhappy you'd become 
 
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Well I was dreaming of you 
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With my heart in your hands 
          E 
And I was following through 
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With my beautiful plans 
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Yeah, now I'm rolling down this canyon drive 
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With your laughter in my head 
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Gonna have to block it out somehow to survive 
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'cuz those dreams are dead 
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But I'm alive 
 
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I want to go where I will never hear your name 
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I want to lose my sorrow and be free again 
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And I know I've been insane 
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When I think of the places I could've been 
 
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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 
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(solo) 
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Standing here by the highway side 
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Watching these trucks blow by 
               C#m 
Inches from my face 
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Yeah, thinking about the time I've wasted 
(Dreaming of you) 
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And the pleasure we once tasted 
(Dreaming of you) 
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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) 
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(Dreaming of you) 
 
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Yeah, now I'm rolling down this California five 
          C#m            B 
With your laughter in my head 
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Gonna have to block it out somehow to survive 
                        B      (tacet) 
'cuz those dreams are dead 
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But I'm alive 
 
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Look at the way I believed in you and loved you all these years 
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Now you could fill a swimming pool with all my salty tears 
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You told me what was in your heart but  baby you lied 
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And I thought that it would kill me,   but I'm alive!