Im Alive

Intro: E A E A E A E B E A It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone E A I look around my life tonight and you are gone E A i might have done something to keep you if I'd known E B How unhappy you'd become E Well I was dreaming of you A With my heart in your hands E And I was following through C#m B With my beautiful plans E C#m B E A E Yeah, now I'm rolling down this canyon drive C#m B With your laughter in my head E A E Gonna have to block it out somehow to survive B (tacet) 'cuz those dreams are dead E A E A But I'm alive E A I want to go where I will never hear your name E A I want to lose my sorrow and be free again E A And I know I've been insane E B When I think of the places I could've been E But I was dreaming of you A With my heart in your hands E And I was following through C#m B With my beautiful plans E C#m B (solo) E E A Standing here by the highway side E Watching these trucks blow by C#m Inches from my face B E Yeah, thinking about the time I've wasted (Dreaming of you) A And the pleasure we once tasted (Dreaming of you) E Looking up and down this road (Following through) C#m B I've been here before (Following through) C#m B Can't be here no more (Dreaming of you) C#m B (Dreaming of you) E A E Yeah, now I'm rolling down this California five C#m B With your laughter in my head E A E Gonna have to block it out somehow to survive B (tacet) 'cuz those dreams are dead E A E A But I'm alive E A Look at the way I believed in you and loved you all these years E A Now you could fill a swimming pool with all my salty tears E A You told me what was in your heart but baby you lied E A And I thought that it would kill me, but I'm alive! Chords Used: E: 022100 (or x79997) A: x02220 (or 577655) B: x24442 (or 799877) C#m: x46654 (or 911999) ( 11 ) | -> i.e. 9-11-11-9-9-9 The words in paren's are background vocals. Tacet means (or at least I mean) to break off strumming, i.e. there's no music played while singing "But I'm alive".