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!
SWITCHFOOT - NATIVE TONGUE
Standard Tuning
Key of F#m
No Capo
[Verse 1]
F#m
Sing to me, baby, in your native tongue
Sing the words of the wise and the young
D
Show me the place where your words come from
E
Love's the language, love’s your native tongue
[Verse 2]
F#m
Feel your heartbeat bang the drum
C#
Open up your eyes and fill your lungs
A
The same word from where the stars are flung
E
Love's the language, love's your native tongue
[Chorus]
F#m
My heart is a beating drum
My head in oblivion
D B
My soul such a long way from
C#
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
My friend, where did we go wrong?
A
My Lord, we forgot our song
E C#
My soul such a long way from
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
[Verse 3]
F#m
Sing it to me, whisper into my ear
Accuser’s voices start to disappear
A
In the wind, in the tongues of the flame
E
In my soul, in my one true name, oh
[Verse 4]
F#m
Back before we learned the words to start a fight
Back before they told us that the haters were right
A
He spoke the truth, "Let there be" and there was
E
Love's the language, love's your native tongue
[Chorus]
F#m
My heart is a beating drum
My head in oblivion
D B
My soul such a long way from
C#
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
My friend, where did we go wrong?
A
My Lord, we forgot our song
E C#
My soul such a long way from
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
[Bridge]
F#m
So sing it out, get loud, get
E
Louder than the voices in the crowd, yeah
B
Even when they try to drown you out, eh
D C#
Your lips, your lungs, your native tongue
F#m
So sing it out, get loud, get
E
Louder than the darkness and the doubts, eh
B
Louder than the curses and the shouts, yeah
D E
Your lips, your lungs, your native tongue
F#m
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh
[Chorus]
F#m
My heart is a beating drum
My head in oblivion
D B
My soul such a long way from
C#
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
My friend, where did we go wrong?
A
My Lord, we forgot our song
E C#
My soul such a long way from
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
[Outro]
F#m A D
I want the world to sing in her native tongue
B
To sing it like when we were young
A C#
Back before the pendulum had swung to the shadows
F#m A D
I want the world to sing in her native tongue
B
Maybe we could learn to sing along
A C#
To find a way to use our lungs for love and not the shadows
F#m A D
I want the world to sing in her native tongue
B
To sing it like when we were young
A C#
Back before the pendulum had swung to the shadows
F#m A D
I want the world to sing in her native tongue
B
Maybe we could learn to sing along
A C# F#m
To find a way to use our lungs for love and not the shadows
Standard Tuning
Key of F#m
No Capo
[Verse 1]
F#m
Sing to me, baby, in your native tongue
Sing the words of the wise and the young
D
Show me the place where your words come from
E
Love's the language, love’s your native tongue
[Verse 2]
F#m
Feel your heartbeat bang the drum
C#
Open up your eyes and fill your lungs
A
The same word from where the stars are flung
E
Love's the language, love's your native tongue
[Chorus]
F#m
My heart is a beating drum
My head in oblivion
D B
My soul such a long way from
C#
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
My friend, where did we go wrong?
A
My Lord, we forgot our song
E C#
My soul such a long way from
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
[Verse 3]
F#m
Sing it to me, whisper into my ear
Accuser’s voices start to disappear
A
In the wind, in the tongues of the flame
E
In my soul, in my one true name, oh
[Verse 4]
F#m
Back before we learned the words to start a fight
Back before they told us that the haters were right
A
He spoke the truth, "Let there be" and there was
E
Love's the language, love's your native tongue
[Chorus]
F#m
My heart is a beating drum
My head in oblivion
D B
My soul such a long way from
C#
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
My friend, where did we go wrong?
A
My Lord, we forgot our song
E C#
My soul such a long way from
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
[Bridge]
F#m
So sing it out, get loud, get
E
Louder than the voices in the crowd, yeah
B
Even when they try to drown you out, eh
D C#
Your lips, your lungs, your native tongue
F#m
So sing it out, get loud, get
E
Louder than the darkness and the doubts, eh
B
Louder than the curses and the shouts, yeah
D E
Your lips, your lungs, your native tongue
F#m
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh
[Chorus]
F#m
My heart is a beating drum
My head in oblivion
D B
My soul such a long way from
C#
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
My friend, where did we go wrong?
A
My Lord, we forgot our song
E C#
My soul such a long way from
My lips, my lungs, my native tongue
F#m
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)
[Outro]
F#m A D
I want the world to sing in her native tongue
B
To sing it like when we were young
A C#
Back before the pendulum had swung to the shadows
F#m A D
I want the world to sing in her native tongue
B
Maybe we could learn to sing along
A C#
To find a way to use our lungs for love and not the shadows
F#m A D
I want the world to sing in her native tongue
B
To sing it like when we were young
A C#
Back before the pendulum had swung to the shadows
F#m A D
I want the world to sing in her native tongue
B
Maybe we could learn to sing along
A C# F#m
To find a way to use our lungs for love and not the shadows
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