Chord/Tab song: Always

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ALWAYS (RADIO EDIT VERSION) - Switchfoot

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Tabbed by: Brad Linder
Email: [email protected]

Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)

This is a tab for the radio edit version of the song Always by Switchfoot. It has an
guitar part that is not on the album version.

Verse 1:

[C]This is the start
[F]This is your heart
[Am]This is the [G]day you were [F]born
[C]This is the sun
[F]These are your lungs
[Am]This is the [G]day you were [F]born

Chorus:

And I am al--way[Am]s[F]
[C]Al--[F]ways
[Am]Al--[G]ways [C]yours

Verse 2:

[C]These are the scars
[F]Deep in your heart
[Am]This is the [G]place you were [F]born
[Am]This is the [Em]hole
Where [F]most of your [C]soul
Comes [G]ripping[Am] out
From the [G]places you've been [F]torn

Chorus 2

Interlude:

e|-15---13---12---13---15--------15---13---12---13---12--------------------|
B|--------------------------13---------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------10----------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|------15--13---12--13--12---10--12--10--8--8/12--12--12/15--15--15-------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Go back to beginning of interlude one more time and play ending below.

(2nd Time is different at the end - Hold out last note)

e|-------15--13--12--13--12--10--12--10--8---------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

This is the second guitar part that harmonizes with the first. Sounds real nice.

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--12---10---9---10---12------12---10---9---10---9------------------------|
D|-------------------------9-----------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------8--------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|--12---10---9---10---9---7---9---7---5---5/9---9---9/12---12---12--------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Go back to beginning of interlude one more time and play ending below.

(2nd Time is different at the end just like the first guitar part - Hold out last note)

e|--------12---10---9---10---9---7---9---7---5-----------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Bridge
Hallel[F]ujah!
I'm caving[C] in
Hallel[F]ujah!
I'm in love [C]again[G]
Hallel[Am]ujah!
[F]I'm a wretched [C]man[G]
Hallel[Am]ujah!
Every [F]breath is a second [C]chance

Chorus 4X

| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note