Eyes Open-Snow Patrol
1. You Are All I Have
Intro:
E, Aadd9 (x4)
Verse 1:
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
Train this chaos turn it into light
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
I've got to see you one last night
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
Before the lions take their share
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
Leave us in pieces, scattered everywhere
Pre Chorus:
B
Just give me a chance to hold on
A
Give me a chance to hold on
B
Give me a chance to hold on
A
Just give me something to hold on to
Chorus:
E Aadd9
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
E Aadd9
I have no fear cos you are all that I have
E Aadd9
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
E Aadd9
I have no fear cos you are all that I have
Verse 2:
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
You're cinematic razor sharp
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
A welcome arrow through the heart
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
Under your skin feels like home
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
Electric shocks on aching bones
Pre Chorus:
B
Just give me a chance to hold on
A
Give me a chance to hold on
B
Give me a chance to hold on
A
Just give me something to hold on to
(Chorus)
Bridge:
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
There is a darkness deep in you
E Aadd9 E Aadd9
A frightening magic I cling to
(Pre Chorus)
(Chorus)
Ending: ("Ooooooo Ooo")
E, A, B, A (x4)
2. Hands Open
Intro/Verse (Main Riff)
It's hard to argue when..
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B|----------------------|
G|------------8-8-------|
D|--5-5--3-3--8-8--8-8--| (x6)
A|--5-5--3-3--6-6--8-8--|
D|--5-5--3-3-------8-8--|
Chorus
Hands open, and my eyes open...
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|------------------8-8-8-8----------|
D|--5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8--| (x4)
A|--5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-6-6-6-6-8-8-8-8--|
D|--5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3---------8-8-8-8--|
Main Riff
Why would I sabotage...
e|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|------------8-8-------|
D|--5-5--3-3--8-8--8-8--| (x4)
A|--5-5--3-3--6-6--8-8--|
D|--5-5--3-3-------8-8--|
Chorus
Hands open and my eyes open...
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|------------------8-8-8-8----------|
D|--5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8--| (x4)
A|--5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-6-6-6-6-8-8-8-8--|
D|--5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3---------8-8-8-8--|
Bridge
It's not as easy as willing it all to be right...
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B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--8-8-8-8-8-8-x-10-10-x-13-13-13-13--5-5-5-5-5-5-x-6-6-6-x-6-6-6--|
A|--8-8-8-8-8-8-x-10-10-x-13-13-13-13--5-5-5-5-5-5-x-6-6-6-x-6-6-6--| (x4)
D|--8-8-8-8-8-8-x-10-10-x-13-13-13-13--5-5-5-5-5-5-x-6-6-6-x-6-6-6--|
Break
Put Sufjan Stevens on...
e|---------------------------|
B|---------------------------|
G|---------------------------|
D|---------------------------| (x4)
A|---------------------------|
D|--5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-8-8-8-8--|
Chorus
Hands open and my eyes open...
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|------------------8-8-8-8----------|
D|--5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8--| (x4)
A|--5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-8-8-8-8--|
D|--5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7---------8-8-8-8--|
Bridge
It's not as easy as willing it all to be right...
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--8-8-8-8-8-8-x-10-10-x-13-13-13-13--5-5-5-5-5-5-x-6-6-6-x-6-6-6--|
A|--8-8-8-8-8-8-x-10-10-x-13-13-13-13--5-5-5-5-5-5-x-6-6-6-x-6-6-6--| (x8)
D|--8-8-8-8-8-8-x-10-10-x-13-13-13-13--5-5-5-5-5-5-x-6-6-6-x-6-6-6--|
3. Chasing Cars
Intro/Verse:
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
D|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus:
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---------------------|
D|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|
A|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|
E|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--------------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--|
Piano bit:
e|--9---------9---------9----------|
B|----9--10-----9--9/7-----9--10---|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|
Chorus Riff 1:
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B|-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-|
G|-9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--|
D|-7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
End Of Chorus Riff:
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B|---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|--7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11---|
A|--x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x---|
E|--5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9---|
Outro:
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
D|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
4. Shut Your Eyes
VERSE
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g|--8-8-8---8-8-8----6-6-6----5-5-5--------8-8-8----8-8-8----6-6-6----5-5-5-|
d|--8-8-8---6-6-6----4-4-4----6-6-6--------8-8-8----6-6-6----4-4-4----6-6-6-|
a|--6-6-6---8-8-8----6-6-6----6-6-6--------6-6-6----8-8-8----6-6-6----6-6-6-|
e|----------------------------4-4-4-----------------------------------4-4-4-|
CHORUS
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g|--8-8---8-8-8---8-------5-5----5-5-5---5------------|
d|--9-9---9-9-9---9-------6-6----6-6-6---6------------|
a|--9-9---9-9-9---9-------6-6----6-6-6---6------------|
e|--7-7---7-7-7---7-------4-4----4-4-4---4------------|
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b|-----------------------------------------------------|
g|--6-6---6-6-6---6-------------8-8----8-8-8---8-------|
d|--6-6---6-6-6---6-------------9-9----9-9-9---9-------|
a|--4-4---4-4-4---4-------------9-9----9-9-9---9-------|
e|------------------------------7-7----7-7-7---7-------|
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g|--8-8----8-8-8---8-------5-5---5-5-5---5------------|
d|--9-9----9-9-9---9-------6-6---6-6-6---6------------|
a|--9-9----9-9-9---9-------6-6---6-6-6---6------------|
e|--7-7----7-7-7---7-------4-4---4-4-4---4------------|
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g|--6-6---6-6-6---6-------6-6----6-6-6---6------------|
d|--6-6---6-6-6---6-------6-6----6-6-6---6------------|
a|--4-4---4-4-4---4-------4-4----4-4-4---4------------|
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5. It's Beginning to Get to Me
Its Beginning To Get To Me Chords by Snow Patrol, www.Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Tabbed by Ben McConnell
Standard Tuning
I tabbed this for Acoustic Guitar. I may be off on a few chords. It's hard to tell what
band was doing, since this song they use a lot of bass.
Chords Used: E A D
E
I want something
E
That's purer than the water
E
Like we were
EA
It's not there now
A E
Ineloquence and anger
E
Are all we have
EA
Like Saturn's rings
A E
An icy loop around me
E
Too hard to hold
EA
Lash out first
A E
At all the things we don't like
E
Or understand
E
And it's beginning to get to me
EA
That I know more of the stars and sea
A
Than I do of what's in your head
E
Barely touching in our cold bed
E
Are you beginning to get my point
E
They're always fighting with aching joints
EA
It's doing nothing but tire us out
AE
No one knows what this fight's about
E
The answer phone
AE
The lonely sound of your voice
E
Frozen in time
E
I only need
AE
The compass that you gave me
E
To guide me on
E
And it's beginning to get to me
D
That I know more of the stars and sea
A
Than I do of what's in your head
E
Barely touching in our cold bed
D
Are you beginning to get my point
A
They're always fighting with aching joints
A
It's doing nothing but tire us out
E
No one knows what this fight's about
D
It's so thrilling but also wrong
A
Don't have to prove that you are so strong
A
Cos I can carry you on my back
E
After our enemies attack
D
I tried to tell you before I left
A
But I was screaming under my breath
E
You are the only thing that makes sense
E
Just ignore all this present tense
Strum E chord loudly
E
We need to feel breathless with love
E
And not collapse under its weight
E
I'm gasping for the air to fill
E
My lungs with everything I've lost
E
We need to feel breathless with love
E
And not collapse under its weight
E
I'm gasping for the air to fill
E
My lungs with everything I've lost
END ON E
6. You Could Be Happy
Capo 3
D 1 bar A 1 bar G 2bars x4
D A G
You could be happy and I won't know
D A G
But you weren't happy the day I watched you go
D A G
And all the things that I wish I had not said
D A G
Are played on lips 'til it's madness in my head
Em D G
Is it too late to remind you how we were?
Em D G
But not our last days of silent, screaming blur
Em D G
Most of what I remember makes me sure
D A G
I should have stopped you from walking out the door
D A G
You could be happy, I hope you are
D A G
You made me happier than I'd been by far
D A G
Somehow everything I own smells of you
D A G
And for the tiniest moment it's all not true
Em D G
Do the things that you always wanted to
Em D G
Without me there to hold you back, don't think, just do
Em D G
More than anything I want to see you go
D A G
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world
7. Make This Go On Forever
Capo 4
Verse 1
A C
Please don't let this turn into something it's not
G F
I can only give you everything I've got
A C
I can't be as sorry as you think I should
G F
but I still love you more than anyone else could
A C
All that I keep thinking throughout this whole flight
G F
Is 'it could take my whole damn life to make this right'
A C
This splintered mast I'm holding on won't save me long
G F
Because I know fine well that what I did was wrong
Chorus
Am C F
G
The last girl in the last reason to make this last for as long as I could
Am C F G
First kiss and the first time that I felt connected to anything
Am C F
The weight of water, the way you taught me to look past everything I had
G
ever learned
Am C F G
The final word in the final sentence you ever uttered to me was love
Verse 2
A C
We have got through so much worse than this before
G F
What's so different this time that you can't ignore?
A C
You say it is much more than just my last mistake
G F
And we should spend some time apart for both our sakes
Chorus
x2
Piano Solo
A
Outro
A
And I don't know where to look
A
My words just break and melt
A
Please just save me from this darkness
A
Please just save me from this darkness
8. Set Fire to the Third Bar
BmAG x2
BmAG
I find the map and draw a straight line
BmAG
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
BmAG
The distance from me to where you'd be
BmAG
It's only finger-lengths that I see
BmAG
I touch the place where I'd find your face
BmAG
My fingers in creases of distant dark places
BmAG
I hang my coat up in the first bar
BmAG
There is no peace that I've felt so far
BmAG
The laughter penetrates my silence
BmAG
As drunken men find flaws in science
BmAG
Their words mostly noises
BmAG
Ghosts with just voices
BmAG
Your words in my memory
BmAG
Are like music to me
BmD
I'm miles from where you are,
AG
I lay down on the cold ground
BmD
I pray that something picks me up
ACadd9
And sets me down in your warm arms
BmAG
After I have travelled so far
BmAG
We'd set the fire to the third bar
BmAG
We'd share each other like an island
BmAG
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
BmAG
And dreaming pink wildfire
BmAG
The last place we left off
BmAG
Your soft skin is weeping
BmAG
A joy you can't keep it
BmD
I'm miles from where you are,
AG
I lay down on the cold ground
BmD
And I pray that something picks me up
ACadd9
and sets me down in your warm arms
BmD
I'm miles from where you are,
AG
I lay down on the cold ground
BmD
I pray that something picks me up
ACadd9
and sets me down in your warm arms
9. Headlights on Dark Roads
INTRO: C8 F8 G8 F8
VERSE:
(bass line)
For once I want to be the car crash
Not always just the traffic jam
A8 B8 G8 ---------------------
Hit me hard enough to wake me __ Palm Mute optional
A8 B8 G8 /
And lead me wild to your dark roads------------/
PRE-CHORUS: G5 F5 G5 F5 G5 F5 G5 F5 (listen the song for the strumming pattern)
During the bridge a second guitar do this little riff:
e ------------------------------------------------------------------|
B ------------------------------------------------------------------|
G ---------7-7-7-7-7--7--7------------------------------------------|
C5 A5 F5 E5 G5
Headlights... before me
E5 A5 F5
So beautiful, so clear
C5 A5 F5 E5 G5
Reach out... and take it
E5 A5 F5
Cos I'm so ti-red of all this f-ear
(bass line)
My tongue is lost, oh, I can't tell you
Please just see it in my eyes
A8 B8 G8
I pull up thorns from our ripped bodies
A8 B8 G8
And let the blood fall in my mouth
PRE-CHORUS(same as before)
CHORUS (X2)
OUTRO: same as bridge
10. Open Your Eyes
GC
All this feels strange and untrue
EmC
And I won't waste a minute without you
GC
My bones ache, my skin feels cold
EmC
And I'm getting so tired and so old
GC
The anger swells in my guts
EmC
And I won't feel these slices and cuts
GC
I want so much to open your eyes
EmC
Cos I need you to look into mine
GC
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
EmC
Tell me that you'll open your eyes[x4]
GC
Get up, get out, get away from these liars
EmC
Cos they don't get your soul or your fire
GC
Take my hand, knot your fingers through mine
EmC
And we'll walk from this dark room for the last time
GC
Every minute from this minute now
EmC
We can do what we like anywhere
GC
I want so much to open your eyes
EmC
Cos I need you to look into mine
GC
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
EmC
Tell me that you'll open your eyes [x8]
GC
All this feels strange and untrue
EmC
And I won't waste a minute without you
11. Finish Line
Intro/Verse: C, Am, G, F
Chorus: G, Am, F
C Am G F
The earth is warm next to my ear
C Am G F
Insects noise is all that I hear
C Am G F
A magic trick makes the world disappear
C Am G F
The skies are dark, they're dark but they're clear
G Am F
A distant motorcade and suddenly there's joy
G Am F
The snow and tickertape blurs all my senses numb
G Am F
It's like the finish line where everything just ends
G Am F
The crack of radios seems close enough to touch
C Am G F
Cold water, cleaning my wounds
C Am G F
A side parade, with a single balloon
C Am G F
I'm done with this, I'm counting to ten
C Am G F
Blue as seas, running to them
G Am F
I feel like I am watching everything from space
G Am F
And in a minute I hear my name and I wake
G Am F
I think the finish line's a good place we could start
G Am F
Take a deep breath, take in all that you could want
