Song: The Gift
Artist: Bush
Album: Man on the Run (2014)
Track: #4
I quite like this one. The riffs remind be a bit of Nigel and Gavin's riffs off Golden State.
Solid, easy song, you can decorate with a few 7's and 2's here and there to give it a fuller sound.
[Riff 1]
F#m A Bm D
e|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|----------------------------|
D|------------7------------7--|
A|----7-8-9-------------------|
E|-----------------9-8-7------|
In notes:
E F F#m A C# C B A
[Riff 2]
D Bm F#m
e|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|
D|----7-6----7-6----7-6----7-6----|
A|--------7------7------7------7--|
E|--------------------------------|
In notes:
A G# E A G# E A G# E A G# E
[Opening]
(Riff 1)
[Verse 1]
F#m A
You’re a shooting star
Bm D
We’re in your constellation
F#m A
No matter where you are
Bm D
You know we are waiting
F#m A
Soon we come for you
Bm D
While everyone is sleeping
F#m A
Gonna take you through
Bm D
The gift is in the giving (Riff 1 comes in)
F#m A Bm
Inside of you with all your lies
D F#m
Nettles and vines
A Bm D
Nettles and vines
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Bm7 A F#m
Shadows fall on these broken days
Bm7 A
If I wait for you
F#m
I'm your slave, I'm your slave
[Chorus 1]
D Bm
I give I bleed
F#m
I try it again
But I could never remember
D Bm
We fell so hard
F#m
Onto the ground
D
But we never surrender (Riff 2 comes in)
Bm F#m
We never surrender
We never surrender
[Verse 2]
F#m A
I know the enemy
Bm D
I know the one I keep inside
F#m A
It’s a feeling
Bm D
Help us to survive
F#m A
See my fingers
Bm D
See my bones
F#m A
I walk a thousand miles
Bm D
On a chemical road (Riff 1 comes in)
F#m A Bm
Inside of you with all my lies
D F#m
Nettles and vines
A Bm D
Nettles and vines
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Bm7 A F#m
Shadows fall on these broken days
Bm7 A
You look so good
F#m
As my slave, as my slave
[Chorus 2]
D Bm
I give I bleed
F#m
I try it again
But I could never remember
D Bm
We fell so hard
F#m
Onto the ground
D
But we never surrender (Riff 2 comes in)
Bm F#m
We never surrender
We never surrender
[Bridge]
E2 Bm D2
To be born again
D
There’s been so much living
E2 Bm D2 D
Take it back to the start
[Verse 3]
(Bass only)
F#m A
You’re a shooting star
Bm D
We’re in your constellation
F#m A
No matter where you are
Bm D
You know we are waiting
Waiting
[Chorus 3]
(Play twice)
D Bm
I give I bleed
F#m
I try it again
But I could never remember
D Bm
We fell so hard
F#m
Onto the ground
D
But we never surrender (Riff 2 comes in)
Bm F#m
We never surrender
We never surrender
