Rebel Beat Lyrics

This is based on the acoustic version that John played at a radio station in San Francisco
(All down a full step)
If you want to play along with the radio version, tuning is standard
Fingering:
G Em Cadd9 D C C/B G' D' C'
-- INTRO --
-- VERSE 1 --
We keep heading in the same direction
You've become my own reflection
Is that your soul that you're trying to protect
I always hoped that we would intersect, yeah
You need time to cope and time to heal
Time to cry if it's what you feel
Oh, life can hurt, when it gets too real
I can hold you up when it's hard to deal
-- BRIDGE 1 --
Alive, alive
Alive is all I wanna feel
Tonight, tonight
I need to be where you are
I need to be where you are
-- CHORUS --
Hey you, look around
Can you hear that noise, it's a rebel sound
We got nowhere else to go
And when the sun goes down and we fill the streets
You're gonna dance till the morning to the rebel's beat
You can take everything from me
'Cause this is all I need
-- VERSE 2 --
You know that life is like a ticking clock
Nobody knows when it's gonna stop, yeah
Before I'm gone I need to touch someone
With a word, with a kiss, with a decent song yeah
And it gets lonely when you live out loud
When the truth that you seek isn't in this crowd
You better find your voice, better make it loud
We gotta burn that fire, or we'll just burn out
-- BRIDGE 1 --
Alive, alive
Alive is all I wanna feel
Tonight, tonight
I wanna be where you are
I need to be where you are
-- CHORUS --
Hey you, look around
Can you hear that noise, it's a rebel sound
add9
We got nowhere else to go
And when the sun goes down and we fill the streets
You're gonna dance till the morning to the rebel's beat
You can take everything from me, oh yeah
You can take everything from me
'Cause this is all I need
- BRIDGE 2 --
We are free tonight
And everything's alright
Just put your arms around me
Baby, show me how to move you
'Cause there's no worries, there's no cares
Feel the sound that's everywhere
We'll take what's ours for once and baby, RUN LIKE HELL!
(Barre chords)
G' D' C' D'
-- CHORUS --
G' D'
Hey you, look around
C' D'
Can you hear that noise, it's a rebel sound
G' D' C'
We got nowhere else to go
(standard chords)
And when the sun goes down and we fill the streets
Gonna dance till the morning to the rebel's beat
You can take everything from me, oh yeah
You can take everything from me
'Cause this is all I need
Yeah, this is all I need
This is all I need