Im Alive

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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:

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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
          
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And I was following through
        
 C#m      
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With my beautiful plans

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 C#m  
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Yeah, now I'm rolling down this canyon drive
          
 C#m            
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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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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
        
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With my heart in your hands
          
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And I was following through
        
 C#m      
 B
With my beautiful plans

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 C#m   
 B

(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      
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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)


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Yeah, now I'm rolling down this California five
          
 C#m            
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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!

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".