Wildness

---------------------------------      SNOW PATROL // WILDNESS --------------------------------- --------------------------------- 1. LIFE ON EARTH No capo. - - -   x2 The first snow The first winter of my life I was told it was the height of me The first dance Well the first one that counted Felt like my blood was built my from crackling lights Oh this ancient wildness That we don’t understand The first sound of a heartbeat To riot roaring on This is not love you had before This is something else   This is something else   This is not the same as other days This is something else   This is something else   Shouldn’t need to be so fucking hard This is life on earth It’s just life on earth It doesn’t need to be the end of you or me This is life on earth It’s just life on earth The first light The first light on the silent shore Just the ships set anchor me and you The way home This is always the way home So you can rip that map to shreds my dear But all we ever wanted See miles and miles from here In the first days in a strange new land We could be sailors This is not love you had before This is something else   This is something else   This is not the same as other days This is something else   This is something else   Shouldn’t need to be so fucking hard This is life on earth It’s just life on earth It doesn’t need to be the end of you or me This is life on earth It’s just life on earth - - -   x2 Shouldn’t need to be so fucking hard This is life on earth It’s just life on earth It doesn’t need to be the end of you or me This is life on earth It’s just life on earth --------------------------------- 2. DON’T GIVE IN No capo. Don’t give in       Don’t you dare quit so easy Give all       That you got on the soul Don’t say       That you want it forever I know I know It’s in your blood and it’s And it’s in your making so don’t Hold your tongue ’cause it’s It’s no longer working don’t Fall on your sword just Follow your instincts Like an old lesson learned Like an old lesson learned Only you know what it What it is to see through See through the eyes that are Trained on me now I can I can only tell you how it How it looks from here I think you made up your mind I think you made up your mind Don’t give in       Don’t you dare quit so easy Give all       That you got on the soul Don’t say       That you want it forever I know I know Don’t give in       Don’t you dare quit so easy Give all       That you got on the soul Don’t say       That you want it forever I know I know Yes there’s a lot we can We can learn from this loss Learn not to let it fall Around our ears Don’t fall in love with the With the way things were It’ll fuck up your mind It’ll fuck up your mind    Through this is all On the wings of others I loved you more     More in your own flight So it ain’t the same    It won’t be lost forever It won’t be lost forever Don’t give in       Don’t you dare quit so easy Give all       That you got on the soul Don’t say       That you want it forever I know I know Don’t give in       Don’t you dare quit so easy Give all       That you got on the soul Don’t say       That you want it forever I know I know This is your grace And I don’t know why And I don’t know why This is your grace And I don’t know why And I don’t know why Don’t give in       Don’t you dare quit so easy Give all       That you got on the soul Don’t say       That you want it forever I know I know --------------------------------- 3. HEAL ME No capo. - Asus2 -   /  / - Asus2 -   /  / Can you heal me baby? I’ve been dancing in this fire for way too long                         But I kinda like it Oh I like it ’cause it’s more dangerous than me                         There’s a siren somewhere But I’m pretty sure it’s only in my head                         So tell me how do you hear it Cause there’s something supernatural in your bones                      Oh this is love like wildness Coursing through you like a drug And this is hurt like kindness Breaking you with gentle hands I call out your name It feels like a soul I know so well And it whispers and roars like an orchestra You call out my name Like no one before It sounds like I I call to a home that I never had - Asus2 -   /  / - Asus2 -   /  / Can you heal me baby? I’ve been wasted in the arms of everyone                       I wasn’t looking for you But I think maybe I was and didn’t know                         Oh this is love like wildness Coursing through you like a drug And this is hurt like kindness Breaking you with gentle hands           I call out your name It feels like a soul I know so well And it whispers and roars like an orchestra You call out my name Like no one before It sounds like I I call to a home that I never had      --------------------------------- 4. EMPRESS No capo        You’re angry but you don’t know how to be that yet It seems too much went wrong and all at once Resistance seems impossible from down this low And surely no one else can feel like this But on the streets You can see them gathering And in your heart You know they feel like you do Sound and pulse and volume Hands just reaching other hands This is almost overload I said almost overload Friends and foes and princes Are all just human in the end This is so damn simple yeah It’s so damn simple   So standing in the steady throne of restless hope You don’t feel like an outcast anymore And something deep inside of you has waken up And you know that nothing’s gonna be the same again And on the streets You can see for what seems miles Because in your heart You know they feel like you do Sound and pulse and volume Hands just reaching other hands This is almost overload I said almost overload Friends and foes and princes Are all just human in the end This is so damn simple yeah It’s so damn simple        Your mind won’t be still It may not again You don’t think it will But it will it will Sound and pulse and volume Hands just reaching other hands This is so damn simple yeah It’s so damn simple   This is so damn simple yeah It’s so damn simple   This is so damn simple yeah It’s so damn simple   --------------------------------- 5. A DARK SWITCH No capo Dm:   x57765 Dm/E: x7x765 Bb:   688766 :    577655 - / -     - - - / -     - - Your hands found a dark switch in me That I that I didn’t know existed The lost tribes in the back of my brain Making fires from what they’ve stacked for years in secret Don’t give me more than I can handle Don’t give me more than I can take Don’t give me more than I can handle Oh hell just give me all you’ve got in every way               This is not like it was before Baby I’m not afraid     Some things fall when they’re meant to fall And you can see everything    Who knew when you brought me a storm Who knew who knew that I would like it The small town of my mind as it was Now a city wreaking havoc stretching endless Don’t give me more than I can handle Don’t give me more than I can take Don’t give me more than I can handle Oh hell just give me all you’ve got in every way               This is not like it was before Baby I’m not afraid     Some things fall when they’re meant to fall And you can see everything    - / -     - -   x6 It’s not like it was before Some things fall when they’re meant to fall It’s not like it was before Some things fall when they’re meant to fall This is not like it was before Baby I’m not afraid     Some things fall when they’re meant to fall And you can see everything    This is not like it was before Baby I’m not afraid     Some things fall when they’re meant to fall And you can see everything                  --------------------------------- 6. WHAT IF THIS IS ALL THE LOVE YOU EVER GET? No capo               Woah what if this is all the love you ever get?          Woah you’d do a couple things so differently I bet         Woah what if this is all the love I ever know          Woah I’d say the words that were so hard to say: don’t go        So you’ve fallen in love So you’ve fallen apart What if it hurts like hell Then it’ll hurt like hell Come on over come on over here I’m in the ruins too I know the wreckage so well Come on over come on over here Woah what if this is all the love you ever get?          Woah you’d not worry so much about counting your regrets         Woah what if this is all the love I’m ever shown          Woah I’d not be so scared to run into the unknown        So you’ve fallen in love So you’ve fallen apart What if it hurts like hell Then it’ll hurt like hell Come on over come on over here I’m in the ruins too I know the wreckage so well Come on over come on over here     What if this is all the love you ever get?     What if this is all the love you ever get?     What if this is all the love you ever get?     What if this is all the love you ever get?   --------------------------------- 7. A YOUTH WRITTEN IN FIRE Capo 6! -     -     -     Remember the first time we got high        We felt like the rabid lion’s roar       We were elastic and then we were healed Healed in the blinking of an eye        And then when the dawn cracked over us       The day wouldn’t hit us hard at all        We could ride the morning into night again We knew the days were there to waste       But these days That light hit so heavy And those days Feel like another life This isn’t like the first time anymore And I’ve been chasing after all Digging for the lost memories Of our youth written in fire You always said it’s not too late for me I sure am listening to you now Leaving me so I can trust myself ’Cause there’s a first time for that too Remember the first time that we kissed It felt like a planet forming But we were just novices at this It felt like an ancient wisdom There was lightning then and those Songs were [?] true No wonder I still think so much about you But these days My heart feels too heavy And those days Are someone else’s life               This isn’t like the first time anymore And I’ve been chasing after all Digging for the lost memories Of our youth written in fire You always said it’s not too late for me I sure am listening to you now Leaving me so I can trust myself ’Cause there’s a first time for that too               --------------------------------- 8. SOON No capo         x3      Soon you’ll not remember anything But then someday neither will I    Tomorrow though is nothing to fear Because father it’s always today Life won’t flash before your eyes Instead we’ll fall away then melt like snow The secret storms of your wild youth Now just gentle breezes warm and faint         x3      Soon you’ll not remember anything But then someday neither will I    Tomorrow though is nothing to fear Because father it’s always today I can’t ride on your coattails again Like I always did as a little boy We are sand in all the old shores now My whole hand hanging onto your thumb There’s a place in the palace of youth We can always be standing like that We can hide in there just as we were then You’re just my father and I am just your son        Your son       Your son       Soon      --------------------------------- 9. WILD HORSES No capo      Ooh you wanted it too late You wanted it too late now I can’t keep track of all your tears You’re crying rivers way too long Ooh I’m tired of loneliness And way more tired of wasted time As I’m still you barely look alive These sharks will do so much good Just keep your wits about you don’t let it end you And summon everything you’ve held up in reserve Don’t fall for every single stolen glance and wink Try to keep your heart on higher shelves once What are you holding back I know your wild horses on the inside of you (Stop holding back) Now slip the tattoo on Serenity its gone from red to blue   (Stop holding back) I’ll make you of this love And no you don’t have time without it (Stop holding back) I know I don’t know much But I do know when to preach (Stop holding back) Ooh you wanted it to work You wanted it to work so much But it’s been broken in your hands The minute that it found your hands Ooh you’re trying not to blink And what you wanna see what is Ooh it hasn’t finished you It’s only that it feels that way Just keep your wits about you don’t let it end you And summon everything you’ve held up in reserve Don’t fall for every single stolen glance and wink Try to keep your heart on higher shelves once What are you holding back I know your wild horses on the inside of you (Stop holding back) Now slip the tattoo on Serenity its gone from red to blue   (Stop holding back) I’ll make you of this love And no you don’t have time without it (Stop holding back) I know I don’t know much But I do know when to preach (Stop holding back)       x5 --------------------------------- 10. LIFE AND DEATH Capo 3! Everything is sudden Everything is suddenly alive All these situations Panic into such sweet calm I will turn the light on I will turn the light on everywhere And I watch you lift your head up Higher than it was before No I don’t know how it ends For both of us But why would you need to know the end my dear? So don’t crash into everything To make your point Let’s get get out of the way of us I want the lion You want the tiger Inside inside Don’t wanna be this far Don’t wanna be so far from you you Now everything’s forgiven Everything’s forgotten just look at you You’re shining like a falling Shining like a falling sword No I don’t know how it ends For both of us But why would you need to know the end my dear? So don’t crash into everything To make your point Let’s get get out of the way of us I want the lion You want the tiger Inside inside Don’t wanna be this far Don’t wanna be so far from you you I want the lion You want the tiger Inside inside Don’t wanna be this far Don’t wanna be so far from you you        x4