Song: We Come Alive
Band: The Wave Pictures
Album: Instant Coffee Baby
Tab by Plabon
Standard tuning
Verse 1:
F Bb C
There were roman candles and Catherine wheels outside
F Bb C
Inside, all was deadly quiet
F Bb C F C Bb
Corner cut, medium weight and I arrive late
F Bb C
I caught you spelling baby names with sparklers on your patio
F Bb C F Bb C
And you didn’t know, that I’d been writing letters to other girls
F Bb C
In shaky, shaky handwriting
Bridge 1:
Dm
We swooned like 50’s housewives
Bb
Buzzing like a hive
Dm Bb C
The room is spinning faster than a 45
Chorus 1:
F Bb C
And we come alive
F Bb C
We come alive
F Bb C F Bb C
We come alive
Bass Solo(same F Bb C chords)
Verse 2:
F Bb C
Well you were an octopus and I was an orang-utan
F Bb C
And everybody in there saw the way that we carried on
F Bb C F Bb C
But everyone who knows me, knows I make up all these stories
Bridge 2:
Dm
We swooned like 50’s housewives
Bb
Buzzing like a hive
Dm Bb C
The room is spinning faster than a 45
Chorus 2:(2x)
F Bb C
And we come alive
F Bb C
We come alive
F Bb C F Bb C
We come alive
F Bb C
we come alive
F Bb C
We come alive
F Bb C F Bb C
We come alive
Guitar solo, same F Bb C chords. Solo mainly in F major pentatonic.