Tom: D
Em7 = 020000
Dsus2 = x00230
A = x0222x
[Intro]
Em7 (Dsus2) A
[Verse 1]
Em7 Em7
You got to be strong
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
Even though you feel weak
A A Em7 Em7
You got to carry on
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
Though you wanna give in
A A Em7 Em7
And when you get lost
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
Don't forget where you began
A A Em7 Em7
You're a survivor
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
From a long line of the same
A A Em7 Em7
Mmm-mm Mmm-mm [Drums come in]
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
Mmm-mm
A A
[Verse 2]
Em7 Em7
There's no need to rush anything [Picking comes in]
Dsus2 A
Don't try to be a machine
Em7
Because you might reea-lly succeeeed
Dsus2 A
And you are a huuu-man being
Em7 Em7
Go outside [2nd layer of picking comes in]
Dsus2 A
And move how your boo-ody was made
Em7 Em7
Like a surviiiivor
Dsus2 A
From a long line of the same [Picking stops]
[Instrumental Break]
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 A
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 A
[Verse 3]
Em7 Em7
Pick up their gift [Little lick after each line]
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
Held up in heee-lix and spit
A A Em7 Em7
And at the end of all this [Groove stops]
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
You can't just caaave in and quit
A A Em7 Em7
No, you got to be strong [Groove starts]
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
Even though you feel weak
A A Em7
You got to carry ooon
Em7 Dsus2
Though you wanna give in -you can't
A Em7
'Cause you're a surviivor [Picking starts up]
Em7 Dsus2
See how you're aliiiive through it all
[Outro]
A Em7 Em7
It's what your every fiiiber is for [Beat and Picking stops on first Em7 here]
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
Just to wake up and riiiide with the sun
A A Em7 Em7
Like a surviiivor
Em7 Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2
Mmm...
A
[Extras]
Actual open chords are:
Bm7
A
E
[Picking]
If you're looping your guitar and want to throw in some different parts. You could do something like
this.
He noodles around palm muting something like this (may be a banjo?) that he changes with the chord
changes.
He layer these two patterns on top of eachother, 2nd layer is on the right.
E|----0-----0-----0--| e|----------------------|
B|--------0-----0----| B|----------------------|
G|--2---2-----2------| G|--2---------2---------|
D|-------------------| D|----4-2-0-----4-2-0---|
A|-------------------| A|----------------------|
E|-------------------| E|----------------------|
[Instrumental Break]
First part:
Then horns come in slowly first.
Second part:
Horns then start doing a fluterring thing. If you're trying to mimic something like it,
you could palm mute and rake back and fourth on a Bm chord and intensify slowly.
E|------2-2-------2-2-----|
B|-----3---3-----3---3----|
G|----4-----4---4-----4---|
D|---4-------4-4-------4--|
A|--2---------2---------2-|
E|------------------------|
[Little licks in third verse]
E|--0--2--0--------------|
B|-----------3--0--3h5~~-|
G|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|
