I believe this is tuned a half step down, but you can play it in standard tuning
and it sounds fine. Simple tune, sounds good acoustic.
Chords:
G 320033
D xx0232
Am x02210
C x32010
Em 022000
[Intro Verse 1] (quiet)
G D Am
I was walking along on the ocean,
G D Am
I felt a fever burning up all I am,
G D
'Cause if there's one thing that I can't stand,
Am C G
It's standing next to my fellow man.
D Am
Ah-ah-ah. Ah-ah-ah.
Am D
It's about to break. Oh.
[Verse 2]
G D Am
For the social worker at the needle exchange.
G D Am
For the self-medicated and the hard deranged.
G D Am
For the lesbians at the bakery,
G D Am
Saying, "Do you really hate me?"
G D Am
It's about to break.
[Chorus 1] (loud)
G D Am
Break like a fever.
G D Am
It's about to break.
G D Am
Break like a fever.
[Verse 3] (loud)
Em D Am
People looking for themselves inside of mirrors.
Em D Am
For not knowing why you're here.
Em D Am
The public appearances on the verge of tears.
Em D Am
When you're all played out from weed and beer.
[Bridge]
Am
Stand up let me get a look at you.
D
Can't we all take a wider view?
(x2)
[Verse 4] (starts quiet, grows)
G D Am
For the evangelist with a stinger-missile,
G D Am
Weapons hot, thinking this will,
G D Am
We won't make them follow orders,
G D Am
For Doctors Without Borders.
(Am)
About to break.
D
It's about to break.
[Chorus 2] (loud)
(Break Like a fever.)
G D Am C
When I see your face, I wanna be in the human race. (Break like a fever)
G D Am C
You're beautiful it's true, I want to be beautiful like you. (Break like a fever)
G D Am C
When I see your face, I wanna be in the human race. (Break like a fever)
G D Am C
You're beautiful it's true, I want to be beautiful like you. (Break like a fever)
G D Am
For a teenage mother with the baby asleep, (Break like a fever)
G D Am
For Africa, where life is cheap.
[End] (quiet)
G D Am
For losing faith in who you're going with,
G D Am
America fades into myth.
tabbed by Chris
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