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SNOW PATROL // WILDNESS
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1. LIFE ON EARTH
No capo.
B - F#m - A - B x2
B
The first snow
F#m
The first winter of my life
A B
I was told it was the height of me
B
The first dance
F#m
Well, the first one that counted
A B
Felt like my blood was built my from crackling lights
B F#m
Oh this ancient wildness
A B
That we don't understand
B F#m
The first sound of a heartbeat
A B
To riot roaring on
B F#m
This is not love you had before
A
This is something else
B
This is something else
B F#m
This is not the same as other days
A
This is something else
B
This is something else
B F#m
Shouldn't need to be so fucking hard
A
This is life on earth
B
It's just life on earth
B F#m
It doesn't need to be the end of you, or me
A
This is life on earth
B
It's just life on earth
B
The first light
F#m
The first light on the silent shore
A B
Just the ships set anchor me and you
B
The way home
F#m
This is always the way home
A B
So you can rip that map to shreds, my dear
B F#m
But all we ever wanted
A B
See miles and miles from here
B F#m
In the first days in a strange new land
A B
We could be sailors
B F#m
This is not love you had before
A
This is something else
B
This is something else
B F#m
This is not the same as other days
A
This is something else
B
This is something else
B F#m
Shouldn't need to be so fucking hard
A
This is life on earth
B
It's just life on earth
B F#m
It doesn't need to be the end of you, or me
A
This is life on earth
B
It's just life on earth
B - F#m - A - B x2
B F#m
Shouldn't need to be so fucking hard
A
This is life on earth
B
It's just life on earth
B F#m
It doesn't need to be the end of you, or me
A
This is life on earth
B
It's just life on earth
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2. DON'T GIVE IN
No capo.
D#m B
Don't give in
F# C#
Don't you dare quit so easy
D#m B
Give all
F# C#
That you got on the soul
D#m B
Don't say
F# C#
That you want it forever
B B
I know, I know
D#m B
It's in your blood and it's
F# C#
And it's in your making, so don't
D#m B
Hold your tongue, 'cause it's
F# C#
It's no longer working, don't
D#m B
Fall on your sword, just
F# C#
Follow your instincts
B
Like an old lesson learned
B
Like an old lesson learned
D#m B
Only you know what it
F# C#
What it is to see through
D#m B
See through the eyes that are
F# C#
Trained on me now, I can
D#m B
I can only tell you how it
F# C#
How it looks from here
B
I think you made up your mind
B
I think you made up your mind
D#m B
Don't give in
F# C#
Don't you dare quit so easy
D#m B
Give all
F# C#
That you got on the soul
D#m B
Don't say
F# C#
That you want it forever
B B
I know, I know
D#m B
Don't give in
F# C#
Don't you dare quit so easy
D#m B
Give all
F# C#
That you got on the soul
D#m B
Don't say
F# C#
That you want it forever
B B
I know, I know
D#m B
Yes there's a lot we can
F# C#
We can learn from this loss
D#m B
Learn not to let it fall
F# C#
Around our ears
D#m B
Don't fall in love with the
F# C#
With the way things were
B
It'll fuck up your mind
B
It'll fuck up your mind
D#m B
F# C#
Through this is all
D#m B
On the wings of others
F# C#
I loved you more
D#m B
More in your own flight
F# C#
So it ain't the same
B
It won't be lost forever
B
It won't be lost forever
D#m B
Don't give in
F# C#
Don't you dare quit so easy
D#m B
Give all
F# C#
That you got on the soul
D#m B
Don't say
F# C#
That you want it forever
B B
I know, I know
D#m B
Don't give in
F# C#
Don't you dare quit so easy
D#m B
Give all
F# C#
That you got on the soul
D#m B
Don't say
F# C#
That you want it forever
B B
I know, I know
F# C# D#m B
This is your grace
F# C#
And I don't know why
D#m B
And I don't know why
F# C# D#m B
This is your grace
F# C#
And I don't know why
B ~
And I don't know why
D#m B F# C#
D#m B F# C#
D#m B F# C#
B B
D#m B
Don't give in
F# C#
Don't you dare quit so easy
D#m B
Give all
F# C#
That you got on the soul
D#m B
Don't say
F# C#
That you want it forever
B B
I know, I know
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3. HEAL ME
No capo.
A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
A
Can you heal me baby?
D/F# D/G A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
I've been dancing in this fire for way too long
A
But I kinda like it
D/F# D/G A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
Oh I like it 'cause it's more dangerous than me
A
There's a siren somewhere
D/F# D/G A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
But I'm pretty sure it's only in my head
A
So tell me how do you hear it
D/F# D/G A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
Cause there's something supernatural in your bones
D
Oh this is love like wildness
A E
Coursing through you like a drug
D
And this is hurt like kindness
A E
Breaking you with gentle hands
D A
I call out your name
E
It feels like a soul
D
I know so well
A E
And it whispers and roars like an orchestra
D A
You call out my name
E
Like no one before
D
It sounds like I
A E
I call to a home that I never had
A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
A
Can you heal me baby?
D/F# D/G A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
I've been wasted in the arms of everyone
A
I wasn't looking for you
D/F# D/G A - Asus2 - A D/F# D/G
But I think maybe I was and didn't know
D
Oh this is love like wildness
A E
Coursing through you like a drug
D
And this is hurt like kindness
A E
Breaking you with gentle hands
D A E
D A E
D A
I call out your name
E
It feels like a soul
D
I know so well
A E
And it whispers and roars like an orchestra
D A
You call out my name
E
Like no one before
D
It sounds like I
A E
I call to a home that I never had
D A E
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4. EMPRESS
No capo
C F C F
C F
You're angry but you don't know how to be that yet
C F
It seems too much went wrong and all at once
C F
Resistance seems impossible from down this low
C F
And surely no one else can feel like this
F
But on the streets
C Dm
You can see them gathering
F
And in your heart
C Dm
You know they feel like you do
C F
Sound and pulse and volume
Hands just reaching other hands
C/E
This is almost overload
F
I said almost overload
C F
Friends and foes and princes
Are all just human in the end
C/E
This is so damn simple, yeah
F C
It's so damn simple
C F
So standing in the steady throne of restless hope
C F
You don't feel like an outcast anymore
C F
And something deep inside of you has waken up
C F
And you know that nothing's gonna be the same again
F
And on the streets
C Dm
You can see for what seems miles
F
Because in your heart
C Dm
You know they feel like you do
C F
Sound and pulse and volume
Hands just reaching other hands
C/E
This is almost overload
F
I said almost overload
C F
Friends and foes and princes
Are all just human in the end
C/E
This is so damn simple, yeah
F
It's so damn simple
C F C F
C
Your mind won't be still
F
It may not again
C
You don't think it will
F
But it will, it will
C F
Sound and pulse and volume
Hands just reaching other hands
C/E
This is so damn simple, yeah
F C
It's so damn simple
C/E
This is so damn simple, yeah
F C
It's so damn simple
C/E
This is so damn simple, yeah
F C
It's so damn simple
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5. A DARK SWITCH
No capo
Dm: x57765
Dm/E: x7x765
Bb: 688766
A: 577655
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Your hands found a dark switch in me
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
That I, that I didn't know existed
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
The lost tribes in the back of my brain
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Making fires from what they've stacked for years in secret
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Don't give me more than I can handle
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Don't give me more than I can take
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Don't give me more than I can handle
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Oh hell just give me all you've got in every way
Dm Am Bb F C
Dm Am Bb F C
Dm Am
This is not like it was before
Bb F C
Baby I'm not afraid
Dm Am
Some things fall when they're meant to fall
Bb F C
And you can see everything
Dm
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Who knew when you brought me a storm
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Who knew, who knew that I would like it
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
The small town of my mind as it was
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Now a city, wreaking havoc, stretching endless
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Don't give me more than I can handle
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Don't give me more than I can take
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Don't give me more than I can handle
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm
Oh hell just give me all you've got in every way
Dm Am Bb F C
Dm Am Bb F C
Dm Am
This is not like it was before
Bb F C
Baby I'm not afraid
Dm Am
Some things fall when they're meant to fall
Bb F C
And you can see everything
Dm - Dm/E - Dm Bb - A - Dm x6
Dm Am
It's not like it was before
Bb F C
Some things fall when they're meant to fall
Dm Am
It's not like it was before
Bb F C
Some things fall when they're meant to fall
Dm Am
This is not like it was before
Bb F C
Baby I'm not afraid
Dm Am
Some things fall when they're meant to fall
Bb F C
And you can see everything
Dm Am
This is not like it was before
Bb F C
Baby I'm not afraid
Dm Am
Some things fall when they're meant to fall
Bb F C
And you can see everything
Dm Am Bb F C
Dm Am Bb F C
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6. WHAT IF THIS IS ALL THE LOVE YOU EVER GET?
No capo
C Em Am F
C Em Am F
C Em Am F C Em Am F
Woah, what if this is all the love you ever get?
C Em Am F C Em Am F
Woah, you'd do a couple things so differently, I bet
C Em Am F C Em Am F
Woah, what if this is all the love I ever know
C Em Am F C Em Am F
Woah, I'd say the words that were so hard to say: don't go
Em F
So you've fallen in love
Em F
So you've fallen apart
C Em Am
What if it hurts like hell
F C
Then it'll hurt like hell
Em Am F
Come on over, come on over here
C Em Am
I'm in the ruins too
F C
I know the wreckage so well
Em Am F
Come on over, come on over here
C Em Am F C Em Am F
Woah, what if this is all the love you ever get?
C Em Am F C Em Am F
Woah, you'd not worry so much about counting your regrets
C Em Am F C Em Am F
Woah, what if this is all the love I'm ever shown
C Em Am F C Em Am F
Woah, I'd not be so scared to run into the unknown
Em F
So you've fallen in love
Em F
So you've fallen apart
C Em Am
What if it hurts like hell
F C
Then it'll hurt like hell
Em Am F
Come on over, come on over here
C Em Am
I'm in the ruins too
F C
I know the wreckage so well
Em Am F
Come on over, come on over here
C Em Am F
What if this is all the love you ever get?
C Em Am F
What if this is all the love you ever get?
C Em Am F
What if this is all the love you ever get?
C Em Am F C
What if this is all the love you ever get?
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7. A YOUTH WRITTEN IN FIRE
Capo 6!
Am - Am7 Em7
Am - Am7 Em7
Am - Am7 Em7
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
Remember the first time we got high
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
We felt like the rabid lion's roar
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
We were elastic and then we were healed
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
Healed in the blinking of an eye
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
And then when the dawn cracked over us
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
The day wouldn't hit us hard at all
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
We could ride the morning into night again
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
We knew the days were there to waste
G
But these days
F Em
That light hit so heavy
G
And those days
F Em
Feel like another life
Am G
This isn't like the first time anymore
Em F
And I've been chasing after all
Am G
Digging for the lost memories
Em F
Of our youth written in fire
Am G
You always said it's not too late for me
Em F
I sure am listening to you now
Am G
Leaving me so I can trust myself
Em F
'Cause there's a first time for that too
Am Am7 Em7 Am
Remember the first time that we kissed
Am7 Em7
It felt like a planet forming
Am Am7 Em7 Am
But we were just novices at this
Am7 Em7
It felt like an ancient wisdom
Am Am7 Em7
There was lightning then and those
Am Am7 Em7
Songs were [?] true
Am Am7 Em7 Am Am7 Em7
No wonder I still think so much about you
G
But these days
F Em
My heart feels too heavy
G
And those days
F Em
Are someone else's life
Am G Em F
Am G Em F
Am G
This isn't like the first time anymore
Em F
And I've been chasing after all
Am G
Digging for the lost memories
Em F
Of our youth written in fire
Am G
You always said it's not too late for me
Em F
I sure am listening to you now
Am G
Leaving me so I can trust myself
Em F
'Cause there's a first time for that too
Am G Em F
Am G Em F
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8. SOON
No capo
C D Bm7 C#m7 x3
C D E
C D Bm7 C#m7
Soon you'll not remember anything
C D Bm C#m7
But then someday neither will I
C D Bm7 C#m7
Tomorrow though is nothing to fear
C D E
Because father it's always today
C D Bm7 C#m7
Life won't flash before your eyes
C D Bm7 C#m7
Instead we'll fall away then melt like snow
C D Bm7 C#m7
The secret storms of your wild youth
C D E
Now just gentle breezes, warm and faint
C D Bm7 C#m7 x3
C D E
C D Bm7 C#m7
Soon you'll not remember anything
C D Bm C#m7
But then someday neither will I
C D Bm7 C#m7
Tomorrow though is nothing to fear
C D E
Because father it's always today
Bm A E
I can't ride on your coattails again
Bm A E
Like I always did as a little boy
Bm A E
We are sand in all the old shores now
Bm A E
My whole hand hanging onto your thumb
Bm A E
There's a place in the palace of youth
Bm A E
We can always be standing like that
Bm A E
We can hide in there, just as we were then
Bm A
You're just my father and I am just your son
C D Bm7 C#m7
C D Bm7 C#m7
Your son
C D Bm7 C#m7
Your son
C D E
Soon
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9. WILD HORSES
No capo
B E
B
Ooh, you wanted it too late
E
You wanted it too late now
B
I can't keep track of all your tears
E
You're crying rivers way too long
B
Ooh, I'm tired of loneliness
E
And way more tired of wasted time
B
As I'm still, you barely look alive
E
These sharks will do so much good
B A E
Just keep your wits about you, don't let it end you
B A E
And summon everything you've held up in reserve
B A E
Don't fall for every single stolen glance and wink
B A E
Try to keep your heart on higher shelves once
B
What are you holding back
A E
I know your wild horses on the inside of you
(Stop holding back)
B
Now slip the tattoo on
A E
Serenity, its gone from red to blue
(Stop holding back)
B
I'll make you of this love
A E
And no you don't have time without it
(Stop holding back)
B
I know I don't know much
A E
But I do know when to preach
(Stop holding back)
B
B
Ooh, you wanted it to work
E
You wanted it to work so much
B
But it's been broken in your hands
E
The minute that it found your hands
B
Ooh, you're trying not to blink
E
And what you wanna see what is
B
Ooh, it hasn't finished you
E
It's only that it feels that way
B A E
Just keep your wits about you, don't let it end you
B A E
And summon everything you've held up in reserve
B A E
Don't fall for every single stolen glance and wink
B A E
Try to keep your heart on higher shelves once
E
B
What are you holding back
A E
I know your wild horses on the inside of you
(Stop holding back)
B
Now slip the tattoo on
A E
Serenity, its gone from red to blue
(Stop holding back)
B
I'll make you of this love
A E
And no you don't have time without it
(Stop holding back)
B
I know I don't know much
A E
But I do know when to preach
(Stop holding back)
B A E x5
B
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10. LIFE AND DEATH
Capo 3!
G
Everything is sudden
C
Everything is suddenly alive
F
All these situations
C
Panic into such sweet calm
G
I will turn the light on
C
I will turn the light on everywhere
F
And I watch you lift your head up
C
Higher than it was before
G
No I don't know how it ends
C
For both of us
F C
But why would you need to know the end, my dear?
G
So don't crash into everything
C
To make your point
F C
Let's get, get out of the way of us
F
I want the lion
G
You want the tiger
Am G F
Inside, inside
F
Don't wanna be this far
G Am G F
Don't wanna be so far from you, you
G
Now everything's forgiven
C
Everything's forgotten, just look at you
F
You're shining like a falling
C
Shining like a falling sword
G
No I don't know how it ends
C
For both of us
F C
But why would you need to know the end, my dear?
G
So don't crash into everything
C
To make your point
F C
Let's get, get out of the way of us
F
I want the lion
G
You want the tiger
Am G F
Inside, inside
F
Don't wanna be this far
G Am G F
Don't wanna be so far from you, you
F
I want the lion
G
You want the tiger
Am G F
Inside, inside
F
Don't wanna be this far
G Am G F
Don't wanna be so far from you, you
F G AM G F x4