{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":421076,"song":"The Game","artist":"Echo & the Bunnymen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11559700-the-game-chords-by-echo-the-bunnymen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/421076?type=chord","rating":4.73351,"votes":27,"content":"The Game by Echo & The Bunnymen (1987)\r\n\r\nIntro\r\nF, Em Dm, C, C,\r\nG, C, C, G, G\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n  A sense of duty was my one intention [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand an ugly beauty was my own invention [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Pride a proud refusal [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nI refuse to need your approval [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Too many seekers, too few beacons [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut through the fog, we'll keep on beaming [/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThrough the crying hours [/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nof your glittery years [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nall the living out, of your tinsel tears [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nand the midnight trains, I never made [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'cos I'd already [/tab]\r\nG            C,   C, G, G\r\nplayed...the game \r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Everybody's got their own good reason [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nwhy their favorite season, is their favorite season [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Winter winners and those summers suns [/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\naren't good for everyone, aren't good for everyone [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\n  Spring has sprung and autumns [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo well done, so well done [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd it's a better thing [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Em[/ch]    \r\nthat we do now,   [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Dm[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nforgetting everything, the whys and hows[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch] \r\nWhile you reminisce [/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nabout the things you miss [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]   D, G, [ch]G[/ch]\r\nyou won't be ready, to kiss...goodbye [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe earth is a world [/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe world is a ball [/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA ball in a game with no rules at all [/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd just as I wonder [/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nat the beauty of it all [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nyou go and drop it and it breaks when it falls [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI'll never understand [/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nwhy you thought I would [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch] \r\nneed to be  reassured and be understood [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen I always knew [/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nthat your bad's my good [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand I was ready [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nready...to be loved [/tab]\r\n\r\nC, G, G, C, C, G, G\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBorn under Mars [/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith Jupiter rising [/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFallen from stars [/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat lit my horizon [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI'll never understand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nwhy you thought I would [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nneed to be  reassured and be understood [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhen I always knew that your bad's my good [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I was ready, ready...to be [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThrough the crying hours [/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Em[/ch]      \r\nof your glittery years[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nall the living out of your tinsel tears [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nand the midnight trains [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI never made 'cos I'd al-ready played [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nand it's a better thing [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]     \r\nthat we do now forgetting [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nEverything the whys and hows [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhile you reminisce about the things you miss [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nyou won't be ready to kiss...goodbye[/tab]","plain_text":"The Game by Echo & The Bunnymen (1987)\n\nIntro\nF, Em Dm, C, C,\nG, C, C, G, G\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG            C,   C, G, G\nplayed...the game \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC, G, G, C, C, G, G","chords":["F","Em","Dm","C","G","A","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}