Biography:
Switchfoot is a Grammy-winning alternative rock band from San Diego, California, United States. The band was formed in 1996 with the brothers Jon Foreman (lead singer/guitarist) and Tim Foreman (bass). Long-time friend Chad Butler (drums) joined soon after. Eventually the band evolved to what it is today with the addition of members Jerome Fontamillas (key/guitar/electronics - formerly of Mortal and Fold Zandura) and Drew Shirley (guitar - formerly of All Together Separate).
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Other songs:
- 24
- 4:12
- Afterlife
- Always
- Awakening
- Burn Out Bright
- Circles
- Cmon Cmon
- Daisy
- Dare You To Move
- Evergreen
- Fading West
- Faust Midas And Myself
- Let That Be Enough
- Let Your Love Be Strong
- Love Alone Is Worth The Fight
- Love Is The Movement
- Meant To Live
- Monday Comes Around
- More Than Fine
- Oh! Gravity
- Old Borego
- On Fire
- Only Hope
- Setting Sun
- Shadow Proves The Sunshine
- Sing It Out
- Stars
- The Shadow Proves The Sunshine
- This Is Home
- This Is You Life
- Twenty-four
- We Are One Tonight
- When We Come Alive
- Who We Are
- Yesterday
- Yesterdays (transposed)
- Yet
- You
- Your Love Is A Song
- 412
- Adding To The Noise
- Against The Voices
- All I Need
- All Or Nothing At All
- Always Something
- Amateur Lovers
- American Dream
- American Dream Acoustic
- Ammunition
- Amys Song
- Ba55
- Back To The Beginning Again
- Beautiful Letdown
- Begin Forever
- Betrayal
- Blinding Light
- Bloodlines
- Blues
- Bull In A China Shop
- Bullet Soul
- Chem 6A
- Company Car
- Concrete Girl
- Connect With The Spine
- Crazy In Love
- Dark Horses
- Dig New Streams
- Dirty Second Hands
- Dont Be There
- Easier Than Love
- Economy Of Mercy
- Enough To Let Me Go
- Fatal Wound
- Float
- Free
- God On His Side
- Golden
- Gone
- Good Night Punk
- Happy Is A Yuppie Word
- Head Over Heels
- Healer Of Souls
- Hello Hurricane
- Holy Water
- Home
- Hope Is The Anthem
- I Dare You To Move
- I Turn Everthing Over
- I Turn Everything Over
- I Wont Let You Go
- If The House Burns Down Tonight
- Incomplete
- Innocence Again
- Learning To Breathe
- Let It Happen
- Let It Out
- Liberty
- Life And Love And Why
- Light And Heavy
- Live It Well
- Lonely Nation
- Looking For America
- Loser
- Mess Of Me
- Might Have Ben Hur
- My Coffin
- Native Tongue
- Needle And Haystack Life
- New Way To Be Human
- New Years Day
- Ode To Chin
- Oh
- Oh Gravity
- Overthrow
- Oxygen
- Playing For Keeps
- Politicians
- Prodigal Soul
- Rebuild
- Red Eyes
- Redemption
- Restless
- Rise Above It
- Saltwater Heart
- Say It Like You Mean It
- Selling The News
- Shake This Feeling
- She Says Black Eye Blues
- Shine Like Gold
- Skin And Bones
- Slipping Away
- Slow Down My Heartbeat
- Sound In My Mouth
- Souvenirs
- Spirit
- Stitches
- Take My Fire
- The Beatiful Letdown
- The Best Yet
- The Day That I Found God
- The Edge Of The Earth
- The Hardest Art
- The Original
- The Sound
- The Strength To Let Go
- The Waco Song
- The War Inside
- The World You Want
- This Is Your Life
- Thrive
- Throwing Chairs
- Twenty
- Vice Verses
- Voices
- We Are Bound
- What It Costs
- Where I Belong
- Where The Light Shines Through
- Wonderful Feeling
- Yesterdays
- You Already Take Me There
- You Always Something
- You Found Me
- Youre The One I Want
Four years of hard work!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Switchfoot
Mess of Me
Hello Hurricane -- 2009
Tuning - Standard (E A D G B E)
*Chords are listed at end of song
Main Riff (MR)
e|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
A|--7/12-12-12h10p12h10--|
E|--0--------------------|
Riff 2 (R2)
e|-------|
B|--12^--|
G|---x---|
D|---9^--|
A|-------|
E|-------|
Intro - MR 4x
Verse 1
MR
I am my own affliction
MR
I am my own disease
MR
There ain't no drug that they could sell
MR
Ah, there ain't no drugs to make me well
Pre-Chorus 1
Em
There ain't no drugs
It's not enough
There ain't no drugs
The sickness is myself
Chorus
Guitar 1
Em C5
I made a mess of me
G5
I wanna get back the rest of me
I've made a mess of me
B5 Em
I wanna spend the rest of my life alive
C5
I've made a mess of me
G5
I wanna reverse this tragedy
I've made a mess of me
B5 C5
I wanna spend the rest of my live alive
B5 MR 2x
The rest of my life alive
Guitar 2
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--8----5----12----10----8----5----12----10----8----7--|
G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|
NOTE: play each note rapidly -- one note for each chord in chorus.
Verse 2
MR
We lock our souls in cages
MR
We hide inside our shells
R2 MR
It's hard to free the ones you love
MR
Oh when you can't forgive yourself
Em
Yeah forgive yourself
Pre-Chorus 2
Em
There ain't no drugs
There ain't no drugs
There ain't no drugs
The sickness is myself
Chorus
Interlude
Guitar 1
Em
Guitar 2
e|-------------------------------------|
B|--15^-----14^-----12^/14^/15^/17/19--|
G|------12^-----11^--------------------|
D|-------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
Bridge
Guitar 1
Em
There ain't no drug
There ain't no drug
There ain't no drug
No drugs to make me well
There ain't no drug
It's not enough
We're breaking up
The sickness is myself
Guitar 2
e|---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|--12-12h14^14-[3x]--14-14-12-12--------|[2x]
D|--------------------------------13/17--|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|
Post-Bridge
The sickness is myself
Chorus
Outro - Em
*Chords Used
Em C5 G5 B5
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|--0--------------|
D|--2---10--5---9--|
A|--2---10--5---9--|
E|--0----8--3---7--|
OR
E5 C5 G5 B5
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|--9---5---10--4--|
D|--9---5---10--4--|
A|--7---3----8--2--|
E|-----------------|
Mess of Me
Hello Hurricane -- 2009
Tuning - Standard (E A D G B E)
*Chords are listed at end of song
Main Riff (MR)
e|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
A|--7/12-12-12h10p12h10--|
E|--0--------------------|
Riff 2 (R2)
e|-------|
B|--12^--|
G|---x---|
D|---9^--|
A|-------|
E|-------|
Intro - MR 4x
Verse 1
MR
I am my own affliction
MR
I am my own disease
MR
There ain't no drug that they could sell
MR
Ah, there ain't no drugs to make me well
Pre-Chorus 1
Em
There ain't no drugs
It's not enough
There ain't no drugs
The sickness is myself
Chorus
Guitar 1
Em C5
I made a mess of me
G5
I wanna get back the rest of me
I've made a mess of me
B5 Em
I wanna spend the rest of my life alive
C5
I've made a mess of me
G5
I wanna reverse this tragedy
I've made a mess of me
B5 C5
I wanna spend the rest of my live alive
B5 MR 2x
The rest of my life alive
Guitar 2
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|--8----5----12----10----8----5----12----10----8----7--|
G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|
NOTE: play each note rapidly -- one note for each chord in chorus.
Verse 2
MR
We lock our souls in cages
MR
We hide inside our shells
R2 MR
It's hard to free the ones you love
MR
Oh when you can't forgive yourself
Em
Yeah forgive yourself
Pre-Chorus 2
Em
There ain't no drugs
There ain't no drugs
There ain't no drugs
The sickness is myself
Chorus
Interlude
Guitar 1
Em
Guitar 2
e|-------------------------------------|
B|--15^-----14^-----12^/14^/15^/17/19--|
G|------12^-----11^--------------------|
D|-------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
Bridge
Guitar 1
Em
There ain't no drug
There ain't no drug
There ain't no drug
No drugs to make me well
There ain't no drug
It's not enough
We're breaking up
The sickness is myself
Guitar 2
e|---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|--12-12h14^14-[3x]--14-14-12-12--------|[2x]
D|--------------------------------13/17--|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|
Post-Bridge
The sickness is myself
Chorus
Outro - Em
*Chords Used
Em C5 G5 B5
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|--0--------------|
D|--2---10--5---9--|
A|--2---10--5---9--|
E|--0----8--3---7--|
OR
E5 C5 G5 B5
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|--9---5---10--4--|
D|--9---5---10--4--|
A|--7---3----8--2--|
E|-----------------|
