Would We Be Alive
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: BCapotraste: Sem capotraste
Song: Would We Be Alive
Artist: NoMeansNo
Album: In The Fishtank EP (1997)
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[Guide]
* one strum
E5: x799xx (breaks, Bridge and verses)
E5: 022xxx (choruses, pre-chorus and outro)
B5: 799xxx
C#5: 9.11.11xxx
A5: 577xxx
G5: 355xxx
F#5: 244xxx
F5: 133xxx
G#5: 466xxx
G5**: just play 6th string
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Tuning: DGCFAd (whole step down)
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[Intro]
(Drum beat through 0:15)
N.C.
Help us, help us, help us, please
N.C.
Help us, help us, help us, please
[Break]
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
[Verse 1]
E5 B5 C#5
If we could see clearly
E5 B5 C#5
What we would decide
E5 B5 C#5
If there was no desperation
E5 B5 C#5
Would we be alive?
E5 B5 C#5
If there were no windows
E5 B5 C#5
That we sit inside
E5 B5 C#5
If there were no ugly feelings
E5 B5 C#5
Would we be alive?
[Break]
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
[Chorus]
G5* F#5*
Would we be alive?
F5 E5*
Would we be alive?
G5 F#5
Would we be alive?
F5* E5*
Would we be alive?
G5* F#5*
Would we be alive? (Would we be alive?)
F5* E5*
Would we be alive? (Would we be alive?)
G5* F#5*
Would we be alive? (Would we be alive?)
F5* E5*
Would we be alive? (Would we be alive?)
[Break]
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
A5 A5 A5 A5
B5 B5 B5 B5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
[Bridge]
E5 B5 C#5
Help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us
E5 B5 C#5
please
E5 B5 C#5
Help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us
E5 B5 C#5
please
E5 B5 C#5
Help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us
E5 B5 C#5
please
E5 B5 C#5
Help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us
E5 B5 C#5
please
E5 B5 C#5
Help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us
E5 B5 C#5
please
E5 B5 C#5
Help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us
E5 B5 C#5
please
N.C.
Help us, help us, help us please
N.C.
Help us, help us, help us please
E5 B5 C#5
Help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us
E5 B5 C#5
please
E5 B5 C#5
Help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us,
E5 B5 C#5
help us
E5 B5 C#5
please
[Verse 2]
E5 B5 C#5
Would you make me helpless
E5 B5 C#5
So that I could be
E5 B5 C#5
Looking for the sight of something
E5 B5 C#5
That I cannot see
[Pre-Chorus]
G5*
I'd Be floating in the ocean
F#5*
Floating in the sea
F5*
Floating in a drifting wind
E5*
I wish that I could be
G5*
Floating in a liquid
F#5*
Nice and thick and warm
F5*
Floating where there is no pleasure
E5*
and there is no harm
G5*
Life could be so pleasant
F#5*
If we all could be
F5*
Helpless hopeless creatures
E5*
Just marching to the sea! Ahhhhhh!
[Break]
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
E5 B5 C#5 E5 B5 C#5
[Chorus]
G5* F#5* F5*
Would we be alive?
E5*
Would we be alive?
G5* F#5
Would we be alive?
F5* E5*
Would we be alive?
[Outro]
E5* A5* G#5* G5*
Help us help us help us help us
F#5*
We're so helpless
F#5* F5* F#5* F5*
Helpless helpless helpless helpless
G#5* G5* F#5*
Helpless helpless helpless helpless
G5**
Helpless (help us) helpless (help us)
Helpless (help us) helpless
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