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THE EDGE OF THE EARTH (2014)
SWITCHFOOT
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Track listing:
1) Fading West 4:18
2) Against the Voices 4:18
3) Skin And Bones 4:02
4) What It Costs 4:05
5) Slow Down My Heartbeat 4:39
6) Liberty 4:05
7) The Edge of the Earth 4:14
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Song: Fading West
Artist: Switchfoot
Album: The Edge of the Earth
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Intro:
B
(Fading west with you)
B
(Fading west with you)
Verse 1:
B
The sun goes down for the summer
B
Mirrored sky full of water
B E/B
I am fading westward too
B
Fading west with you
Verse 2:
B
Life won’t sing like I want it
B
The traffic post-modern sonnet
B E
The traffic hums a dirty tune
B
Fading west with you
Chorus:
B E
I’m headed back to the West Coast where I’m from
B E
I’m headed back to the left coast, where I belong
G#m B/F# E
California’s calling me back home
B
Fading west with you
Verse 3:
B
Keep my mind over matter
B
Cuz I’ve seen my hope shatter
B E
They told me lies I thought were true
B
Fading west with you
Prechorus:
A
The sun goes down
E
We were already gone
Chorus
Bridge:
D# D#/A# G#m B
When I ride on alone
E F# B C#m
Feel like I’m caving in
D# D#/A# G#m
When you leave me alone
B E
I start to wonder
F# E
Where have I been
F# B
Where have I been
Chorus (final):
B E
I’m headed back to the West Coast where I’m from
B E
I’m headed back to the left coast, where I belong
G#m B/F# E
California’s calling me back home
G#m B/F# E
Californian waters, won’t you bring me home
B
Fading west with you
Tag:
E B
Fading west with you
E B
I’m fading west with you
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Song: Against the Voices
Artist: Switchfoot
Album: The Edge of the Earth
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Intro:
F#m E D E (x4)
Verse 1:
F#m E
Start the day against the voices
D A/C#
The ones that tell me that I'm wrong
Bm F#m
I hear them now
E D A/C#
Screaming their delusions
Bm A D
Close my eyes and they're gone
Interlude: F#m E D E
Verse 2:
F#m E
In my mind I hear the voices
D A/C#
In my mind I have my doubts
Bm F#m
Burning fears
E D A/C#
These ghosts and apparitions
Bm A D
Only your whisper can drown them out, yeah
Prechorus:
F#m
If they ain't singing
F#m/E
And they're just talking
F#m E D
Let them keep talking to themselves
Chorus:
Cuz everybody knows
A E
That the hardest war to fight
F#m
Is a fight to be yourself
E D
When the voices try to turn you into someone else
Interlude:
F#m E D E
Someone else
Verse 3:
F#m E
Start the road against the voices
D A/C#
I picked a path out in the woods
Bm F#m
I've made mistakes
E D A/C#
I've got the scars to prove them
Bm A D
I'd change the past if I could
Prechorus
Chorus
Bridge:
F#m A A/C# D F#m A Bm
Ba baba ba dada-dada-dadada (x3)
F#m A D
I close my eyes and they're gone, gone, gone, gone
Prechorus (low):
A
If they ain't singing
E/G#
And they're just talking
A E/G# F#m
Let them keep talking to themselves
Chorus
Prechorus (link):
F#m
Eh-eh
F#m/E
Eh-eh
F#m E D
Let them keep talking to themselves
Chorus (outro):
Cuz everybody knows
A E
That the hardest war to fight
F#m
Is a fight to be yourself
E D
Close my eyes and they’re gone
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Song: Skin And Bones
Artist: Switchfoot
Album: The Edge of the Earth
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Intro:
(N.C.)
B5 E5 G5
B5 G5 E5
Verse 1:
B Em G B G Em
The wasteland is mine, mine alone
B Em G B G Em
The desert comes alive when no one's home
B Em G B G Em
Apocalyptic skies, burning gold
B Em G B G Em
I walk these empty miles, I can't find a soul
Chorus:
Bm D
In my mind
G Em
In my mind
Bm D G
In my mind, I'm miles away
Em
I'm miles away
Interlude: B5
Verse 2:
B Em G B G Em
I'm not afraid to die, I'm afraid of being free
B Em G B G Em
I'm not afraid to doubt, I'm afraid to believe
B Em G B G Em
Don't believe the lies of what you see
B Em G B G Em
Elevate your mind above these animal dreams
Chorus
Bridge:
E B
Flying overhead, these animal dreams (x4)
Em G B G N.C.
Chorus (outro):
B Em Em
In my mind
G G Em
In my mind
B Em Em
In my mind
G G Em
In my mind
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Song: What It Costs
Artist: Switchfoot
Album: The Edge of the Earth
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Verse 1:
G#m E B
Sunlight, fading fast, make it last
F#/A# C#m G#m
Like a flame, flickers then it’s past
G#m E B
Moonlight fades to dark, carry on
F#/A# C#m G#m
You never know what’s real until it’s gone
Prechorus 1:
F#/A# E B
Love deals the currency of loss
F#/A# E F#/A#
Don’t ever forget what it costs
Chorus:
G#m E
Hold on to me
B F#/A#
Carry me through
G#m E
Our story
B F#/A#
Is a pain that we outgrew
G#m E
Yeah, you can’t call it love
B F#/A#
Until you’ve lost
G#m
If you love someone
F#/A#
This is what it costs
Interlude: G#m E B F#
Verse 2:
G#m E B
This city cries softly tonight
F#/A# C#m G#m
Like a million teardrops from a thousand eyes
G#m E B
I’m drenched beneath the rainy Melbourne sky
F#/A# C#m G#m
Wondering how it is I feel so dry inside
Prechorus 2:
F#/A# E B
Well love uses the pain to drill the holes
F#/A# E F#/A#
To irrigate our dry and thirsty souls
Chorus
Interlude:
G#m E B F#
Ohh
G#m E B F#
Ohh
G#m E B D#m
Ohh
C# G#m C# G#m
D#m G#m E F#
Outro:
G#m E B
Sunlight, fading fast, make it last
G#m E B
Sunlight, fading fast, make it last
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Song: Slow Down My Heartbeat
Artist: Switchfoot
Album: The Edge of the Earth
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This song is in 7/8, divided as 4+3/8 or 4+2+1/8.
Also I’m not too sure of some of the lyrics, so apologies if any are wrong.
There is also some muddying between A/Am and D/Dm, so if you want to be safe play A5 and D5.
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Intro:
A F Dm
A F D F G
A F Dm
A F D F G
Verse 1:
A F Dm
The morning comes
A F D F G
My mind rolls back
A F Dm
My body’s weightless
A F D F G
My world goes black
Chorus:
A F Dm
Slow down my heartbeat
A F D F G
Slow down my heartbeat
A F Dm
Slow down my heartbeat
A F D F G
Slow down my heartbeat
Verse 2:
A F Dm
A loud scream in
A F D F G
My hands are bound
A F Dm
The world’s still breathing
A F D F G
But there’s no sound
Chorus
Interlude (high):
A F Dm
A F D F G
A F Dm N.C.
A F D F G
Interlude (low):
A F Dm
A F D E/G#
A F Dm
A F D E/G#
Refrain (x4):
A F
Euphoria’s gone
Dm
It’s time to move on
A F D E/G#
I have to believe we can change
A F
My world’s gone all wrong
Dm
Stop swimming along
A F D E/G#
We can’t be the same old thing
Tag (x4 and fade out):
A F Dm
Euphoria’s gone
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Song: Liberty
Artist: Switchfoot
Album: The Edge of the Earth
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The bridge is in 3-bar phrases, not the regular 4-bar phrases.
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Intro: F#m/A D/A A (x2)
Verse 1:
F#m/A D/A A
The feeling comes to me in waves
F#m/A D/A A
The darkest seas I’ve ever known
F#m/A D/A A
Mine is an odyssey of grace
F#m/A D/A A
Mine is a story headed home
F#m/A D/A A
I tie myself up to the mast
F#m/A D/A A
Give up the semblance of control
F#m/A D/A A
The sirens sing but I let them pass
F#m/A D/A A
Cuz only you could free my soul
Chorus (first):
F#m D/E A
Only you can free my soul
F#m D/E A
Yeah, only you can free my soul, yeah
Verse 2:
F#m/A D/A A
Set these broken bones to cast
F#m/A D/A A
Stitch my wounds with holy sutures
F#m/A D/A A
Every saint has got a past
F#m/A D/A A
Yeah, but every sinner’s got a future
Chorus (second):
F#m D A
And only you can free my soul
F#m D A
Yeah, only you can free my soul, yeah
Bridge:
F#m A/E D
Show me the freedom from these chains
F#m A/E D
Show me a battlefield that’s safe
F#m E/G# A
That waters still roll away
But you are my liberty
Tag:
Bm D A E
F#m D A E
F#m D
Free my soul, free my soul
A E
And let liberty flow
F#m D
Like a flood, let it grow
A E
And I’ll let the past go
F#m D
I’ve come home, back home
A E
And I’ll make it I know
F#m D
All my love, all my hope
A E
Only you could free my soul
A
Free my soul
D A
Come on and free my soul (only you could free my soul)
D A
Only you could free my soul (only you could free my soul)
I tied myself up to the mast
D A
I tied myself up to the mast and let it go (only you could free my soul)
D
Yeah yeah
A
Only you could free my soul
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Song: The Edge of the Earth
Artist: Switchfoot
Album: The Edge of the Earth
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Intro: Bb F C (x2)
Verse 1:
Bb
When the morning finds us
F C
We open up our eyes
Bb F C
With the stars still fading in the sky
Bb
All along the journey
F C
You leave the past behind
Bb F C
I had a dream that we could fly
Interlude (x2):
Bb
Oh-oh-oh-oh
F C
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Chorus:
Bb
Of the distant o-ceans
F C
The falling mountains
Bb
The great wide o-pen
F C
Of the desert sky
Bb
And where I’ll be is
F C
Where you found me
Dm F/C Bb
Meet me here at the edge of the Earth
Dm F/C Bb
Meet me here at the edge of the Earth
Tag:
Bb F C
So come on
Bb F C
Come on
Verse 2:
Bb
So I set off running
F C
To reach the other side
Bb F C
To find a place to call my own
Bb
And in the distance
F C
The rivers open wide
Bb F C
And I was lost but not alone
Chorus
Tag:
F F C
So come on
Bb/F F C
Come on
Bb/F F C
So come on
Bb/F F/A F/C C
Come on
Bb/F F C
So come on
Bb/F F/A F/C C
Come on
(repeat and fade out)
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