Alcatraz

Verse Lick

Chords
Intro Lick
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick (x2)
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick
Hello its been awhile
G          Am          C -> Verse Lick
You know I wished you well
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick
I wrote a song for you
G                       Am            C -> Verse Lick
So break the chains and damn the cell
          G             Am
You wrote love, love is everywhere
C                          -> Verse Lick
In the notebook you gave me
G                   Am                 C -> Verse Lick
You made a list of joys for me and you put your name first
G F#/G Em
How?
G F#/G Em
How?
G  F#/G   Em        D
How is no man is an island?
G       Em
Well with California
C       B/C     Am
Sliding off the chart
G                  Em
Pack your suitcase up
C          B/C       Am
And make a brand new start
G       Em
California
C       B/C     Am
Sliding Off the map
G                  Em
Hurry now, can you make it home
C       B/C     Am
Can you make it back?
C  B/C  Am                      C  B/C  Am
     If nothing's built to last
C   D
Why don't you...
Intro Lick ->      G         Am          C -> Verse Lick
Just put me out on Alcatraz?
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick
G                 Am         C -> Verse Lick
I've been accused a time or two
G                     Am            C -> Verse Lick
Of having sentimental attributes Of hanging on too long
G              Am             C -> Verse Lick
When nostalgia is a vice that captures a warm place in time
G                   Am          C -> Verse Lick
And like a cool fog rolling in, clouding up the heart and minds
G F#/G Em
Whoa!
G F#/G Em
Whoa!
G  F#/G   Em        D
Oh well no man's an island
          G       Em
Well with California
C       B/C     Am
Sliding off the chart
G                  Em
Pack your suitcase up
C          B/C       Am
And make a brand new start
G       Em
California
C       B/C     Am
Sliding Off the map
G                  Em
Hurry now, can you make it home
C       B/C     Am
Can you make it back?
C  B/C  Am                      C  B/C  Am
     If nothing's built to last
C   D
Why don't you...
Intro Lick ->      G         Am          C -> Verse Lick
Just put me out on Alcatraz?
G         Am          C -> Verse Lick
G              Am            C     ->      Verse Lick
And every tear in your past, the reservoir you blink away
G                    Am             C      ->  Verse Lick
Washing down all the hilly streets, out into the bay
G            Am          C      ->       Verse Lick
No man is an island, but each one does his time
G                Am                 C
To see if he can tough it out, in a prison of the mind
G                    Am                 C      ->             Verse Lick
And like a note to a lover, through the blue lines you can see
G                  Am              C
A chance to stay a prisoner, or an easy way to break yourself free!
(Break yourself free!)
G       Em
Whoa California
C       B/C     Am
Sliding off the chart
G              Em
Pack your suitcase
C    B/C          Am
Baby open up your heart
 G       Em
California
C       B/C     Am
Sliding off the map
G                  Em
Hurry now, can you make it home
C       B/C     Am
Can you make it back?
C       B/C     Am
C  B/C  Am                      C  B/C  Am
     If nothing's built to last
C   D
Why don't you...
Intro Lick ->      G         Am          C -> Verse Lick
Just put me out on Alcatraz?
G         Am          C      G [Final Strum]
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| h   Hammer-on
| p   Pull-off
| /   Slide up
| \   Slide down
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