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- From: Sekhar Narayanaswami <rsn@aloha.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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- LEARN TO BE STILL
- The Eagles, from the album "Hell Freezes Over"
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- Corrections/criticisms/comments are welcome. Please send
- them to rsn@eecs.berkeley.edu, as I don't read this
- newsgroup.
-
- intro:
- F# B F# B
- F# B C# C#
-
- F# B
- It's just another day in paradise
- D#m C#
- As you stumble to your bed
- F# B
- Give anything to silence
- D#m C#
- These voices ringing in your head
-
- D#m B
- You thought you would find happiness
- D#m B
- Just over that green hill
- D#m A#m
- You thought you would be satisfied
- B C#
- But you never will
- F# B F# B
- Learn to be still
-
- (verse 2):
- Like sheep without a shepherd
- Don't know how to be alone
- So we wander 'round this desert
- Wind up following the wrong gods home
-
- The flock cries out for another
- They keep answering that bell
- One more starry eyed messiah
- Meets a violent farewell
- Learn to be still
- Learn to be still
-
- Bridge:
- C#
- Now the flowers in your garden
- B
- They don't smell so sweet so sweet
- C#
- Maybe you'd forgotten
- D#m C#
- The heaven lying at your feet
-
- F# F# B B
- F# F# B B
-
- Verse 3:
- There's so many contradictions
- In all these messages we send
- Keep asking how do I get out of here
- Where do I fit in
-
- Though the world is torn and shakin'
- Even if your heart is breakin'
- It's waiting for you to awaken
- Someday you will
- Learn to be still
-
- (F# B repeated over and over till end of song).
- Learn to be still
-
- Just keep on running
-
- Keep on running....
-
- Chords Used:
- F# 244322
- B x24442
- C# x46664
- D#m x68876
- A#m 688666
-
- You can also use a capo at fret 2, and then the chords (relative to the capo)
- would be:
- E 022100
- A x02220
- B x24442
- C#m x46654
- G#m 466444
-
- Sekhar
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- Sekhar Narayanaswami rsn@aloha.eecs.berkeley.edu
-
- "I wanna find myself a girl
- Who can show me what laughter means
- And we'll fill in the missing colors
- In each others paint-by-number dreams" -- Jackson Browne
-
- "In my dreams I was drowning my sorrows
- But my sorrows they learned to swim" -- U2
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