Cifra Club

Survivors

Tim Baker

Chord: Principal (acoustic and electric guitars)
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key: D
Em7   = 020000
Dsus2 = x00230
A     = x0222x

[Intro]
Em7  (Dsus2)  A

[Verse 1]
                  Em7  Em7
You got to be strong
Em7   Em7                     Dsus2 Dsus2
   Even though you feel weak
A   A                 Em7  Em7
   You got to carry on
Em7  Em7                    Dsus2 Dsus2
    Though you wanna give in
A   A                    Em7  Em7
    And when you get lost
Em7  Em7                    Dsus2    Dsus2
         Don't forget where    you began
A   A              Em7   Em7
       You're a survivor
Em7  Em7                   Dsus2   Dsus2
        From a long line    of the same
A   A              Em7  Em7
        Mmm-mm Mmm-mm                           [Drums come in]
Em7  Em7           Dsus2 Dsus2
        Mmm-mm
A   A

[Verse 2]
                        Em7            Em7
There's no need to rush   anything              [Picking comes in]
                Dsus2         A
Don't try to be    a machine
                     Em7
Because you might reea-lly succeeeed
                 Dsus2        A
And you are a huuu-man being
        Em7         Em7
Go outside                                      [2nd layer of picking comes in]
                     Dsus2         A
And move how your boo-ody was made
             Em7         Em7
Like a surviiiivor
                Dsus2         A
From a long line of the same                    [Picking stops]

[Instrumental Break]
Em7  Em7  Dsus2  A
Em7  Em7  Dsus2  A

[Verse 3]
                   Em7  Em7
Pick up their gift                              [Little lick after each line]
Em7   Em7               Dsus2 Dsus2
          Held up in heee-lix and spit
A   A                    Em7  Em7
   And at the end of all this                   [Groove stops]
Em7  Em7                  Dsus2 Dsus2
         You can't just caaave in and quit
A   A                    Em7  Em7
   No, you got to be strong                     [Groove starts]
Em7  Em7                       Dsus2 Dsus2
     Even though you feel weak
A   A                    Em7
    You got to carry ooon
Em7                          Dsus2
    Though you wanna give in       -you can't
A                      Em7
   'Cause you're a surviivor                    [Picking starts up]
Em7                    Dsus2
     See how you're aliiiive through it all

[Outro]
A                          Em7  Em7
     It's what your every fiiiber is for        [Beat and Picking stops on first Em7 here]
Em7  Em7                  Dsus2 Dsus2
    Just to wake up and riiiide with the sun
A   A                Em7  Em7
      Like  a  surviiivor
Em7  Em7             Dsus2 Dsus2
          Mmm...
A


[Extras]

Actual open chords are:
Bm7
A
E

[Picking]

If you're looping your guitar and want to throw in some different parts. You could do something like 
this.

He noodles around palm muting something like this (may be a banjo?) that he changes with the chord 
changes.
He layer these two patterns on top of eachother, 2nd layer is on the right.

E|----0-----0-----0--| e|----------------------|
B|--------0-----0----| B|----------------------|
G|--2---2-----2------| G|--2---------2---------|
D|-------------------| D|----4-2-0-----4-2-0---|
A|-------------------| A|----------------------|
E|-------------------| E|----------------------|


[Instrumental Break]

First part:
Then horns come in slowly first.

Second part:
Horns then start doing a fluterring thing. If you're trying to mimic something like it,
you could palm mute and rake back and fourth on a Bm chord and intensify slowly.

E|------2-2-------2-2-----|
B|-----3---3-----3---3----|
G|----4-----4---4-----4---|
D|---4-------4-4-------4--|
A|--2---------2---------2-|
E|------------------------|

[Little licks in third verse]

E|--0--2--0--------------|
B|-----------3--0--3h5~~-|
G|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|
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