This is How the Wind Shifts
Tuning: Half-Step Down
Intro:
GEm
Feel it, the calm after the storm.
D
As still as I can be.
C
I'm finally all alone until I fall asleep...
Em--CEm--C
Did I escape or am I captured?
D
Trapped in a cage of rear view mirror eyes.
CD
Triangles that look like faces.
Verse 1:
Em
This is what I get
C-Em
for my revenge.
DC
A hidden microphone,
D
an amber alert implanted...
Em
...under my skin.
C-Em (D)
It's just in my head but
C
it takes me over.
DEm
It makes me forget why I'm on my way.
G
These four years feel like a hundred.
Chorus:
EmCD
West-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.
C
I've been running scared without you.
DEm
I drove all night to tell you.
CD
In dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.
C---DEm--C
I know it was another life but I never could forget you.
Em--C----D
I never could forget you.
Verse 2:
EmCEm
We set it up (we set it up)
DC
like a house of cards in a hurricane.
D
We didn't think it would ever make sense.
EmCEm
He set us up (he set you up),
D
he knew just where to plant it.
C
It knocked me over,
DEm
it made me forget how I fell in love.
G
How much I really cared.
Chorus:
EmCD
West-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.
C
I've been running scared without you.
DEm
I drove all night to tell you.
CD
In dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.
Ad Lib: Em-D-C-D
C---D
I know it was another life but I never could forget you.
I never could forget you.
Bridge:
EmD
You'll see me there
C
like a familiar stranger
D
standing on the street.
EmD
I'll say a prayer,
C
I'll introduce myself
D
like it's the first time we'd ever meet.
EmG
In California,
AmCDEm
I'd learn that sometimes you have to run away.
G
In California,
AmC--D
I'd find myself again.
Chorus:
EmCD
West-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.
C
I've been running scared without you.
DEm
I drove all night to tell you.
CD
In dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.
CDEm
I know it was another life but I never could forget you...