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To Be Alive by Brother and Bones
[Intro/Verse]
|           C#m|           C#m|              E|              E|
Take your C#mchances
Past forgiveness
Past the old days drink to new
Drown your sEorrows until they learn to swim
Start the eC#mngine
Stop your caring
Get your bearings make your move
Until those oEld deaf ears, oh how they’ll fall on you
See, the pC#mroblem
Is the blindness
That you carry like a cross and
The solution Eis the darkness that you’re in
Time to fC#mocus
Time to realise
Your heart might be the boss
But your Ehead will stop the sides from caving in
[Pre-Chorus]
ANow you’re a ghost in this town and still so hard on the Eeyes
[Chords]
Saying C#mthis is what it Ais to be Ealive
F#Guess all the secrets you’re bound to on the AinsC#mide
Are between Byou and the night
I knew C#myou once
and your patience
Now its you that knows it all
Hope you’re eEverything you couldn't wait to be
I guess half of soC#mmethings better than
A whole lot of nothing that may be
But when the liEghtening comes why stand beneath the trees
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
[Outro]
|          C#m|          E   D#|         C#m|         E   D#|          C#m|          E|         E| E  
Oh why do I do..
Oh why do I do..
Oh why do I do what I do to you

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To Be Alive

by Brother & Bones

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C#m

To Be Alive by Brother and Bones

[Intro/Verse]

C#m C#m E E

| | | | |

C#m

Take your chances

Past forgiveness

Past the old days drink to new

Drown your sorrows until they learn to swim

C#m

Start the engine

Stop your caring

Get your bearings make your move

Until those old deaf ears, oh how they’ll fall on you

C#m

See, the problem

Is the blindness

That you carry like a cross and

The solution is the darkness that you’re in

C#m

Time to focus

Time to realise

Your heart might be the boss

But your head will stop the sides from caving in

[Pre-Chorus]

A E

Now you’re a ghost in this town and still so hard on the eyes

[Chords]

C#m A E

Saying this is what it is to be alive

F# A C#m

Guess all the secrets you’re bound to on the inside

Are between you and the night

C#m

I knew you once

and your patience

Now its you that knows it all

Hope you’re everything you couldn't wait to be

C#m

I guess half of somethings better than

A whole lot of nothing that may be

But when the lightening comes why stand beneath the trees

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

[Outro]

C#m E D# C#m E D# C#m E E E

| | | | | | | |

Oh why do I do..

Oh why do I do what I do to you

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