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Gbmajor
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Step 1 / 13Position: 8
1 index2 middle3 ring4 pinkyO open
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The guitar riff from guitar 2 that you hear during choruses and the ending
INTRO
F#- F#- F#- F#  
F#- F#- B- B  
VERSE
F#I do remember
I never felt so alive since 19 19 9B9
F#How can I forget the nights we killed
You know the sun never sets around Bhere
F#- F#- B- B  
F#Your band came to town
You were younger than I'm now in 19 80 B83
F#Look behind you they're after you
to fall fall fall beBhind
CHORUS - with guitar riff (played twice)
This is who I C#am or was and always been
F#Original the Btruth what else
No C#living legend always been
F#Someone is corrected
BRelying till defected
(with guitar riff played twice)
F#- F#- B-B  
VERSE
I'm not compF#laining
I never wanted this to Bend
F#How can I forget shaking every memory
Looking back when sun never set around Bhere
CHORUS (with guitar riff played 4 times)
This is who I C#am or was and always been
F#Original the Btruth what else
No C#living legend always been
F#someone is corrected
BRelying till defected
C#Original oh oh F#same Bold
C#Living legend no oh
F#   B   C#----\
Never been so close before \
F#- B\ Guitar riff plays 4 times again
C#- F#- B/
C#- F#- B/
C#- F#- B__________________/
ENDING CHORUS (With guitar riff played throughout)
And C#what they say's not always right
F#Original you Bknow what's right
C#And they think that you're living dead
F#somehow Bsomehow
C#Original no oh F#same Bold
C#Living legend no oh
F#Never been so Bclose befF#ore
F#- B- B  
F#- F#- B- B  
END on F#  
Guitar Riff (this is the what guitar 2 plays mostly)
e|-------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------|
D|-11~-11~-11-9-8~-8-------------|
A|-------------------11-9~-9-8-6~| This 6 could also be an 11 on the E,
E|-------------------------------| it's your choice.
All chords in this song (3)

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About 1999 Chords by Shout Out Louds

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