Vice Verses Lyrics

VICE VERSES (2011)
SWITCHFOOT
Track listing:
1) Afterlife 3:37
2) The Original 3:15
3) The War Inside 3:38
4) Restless 5:17
5) Blinding Light 4:16
6) Selling the News 3:34
7) Thrive 5:12
8) Dark Horses 3:59
9) Souvenirs 4:31
10) Rise Above It 3:33
11) Vice Verses 5:07
12) Where I Belong 6:52
All chords are transcribed by me and not copied off other already-existing chords on
this site, even if some (e.g. Where I Belong) might look similar :D
Also, the symbol "" represents no chord.
If you don't want to use power chords, A5, F5, C5,
D5 become Am, F, C and Dm respectively
Intro: A5
Verse 1:
I've tasted fire, I'm ready to come alive
I can't just shut it up and fake that I'm alright
I'm ready now, I'm not waiting for the afterlife
Interlude 1: A5
Verse 2:
Oh, let it burn the way the sunlight burns my skin
The way I feel inside, the way the day begins
I'm ready now, I'm not waiting for the other side
Prechorus 1:
I'm ready now, I'm ready now
Chorus:
Cuz everyday, the world is made
A chance to change, but I feel the same
And I wonder why would I wait till I die to come alive?
I'm ready now, I'm not waiting for the afterlife
Verse 3:
I still believe we could live forever
You and I, we begin forever now
Forever now, forever
Verse 4:
I still believe in us together
You and I, we're here together now
Forever now
Prechorus 2:
Forever now, or never now
Interlude 2:
Lead-in:
Everyday, a choice is made
Everyday I choose my fate
And I wonder why would I wait till I die to come alive?
To come alive?
Chorus (Final):
Everyday, everyday
Everyday I still feel the same
And I wonder why would I wait till I die to come alive?
I'm ready now, I'm not waiting for the afterlife
Tag:
I'm ready now, I'm ready now, I'm ready now, I'm ready
I'm ready now, I'm not waiting for the afterlife
Outro:
Yeah, Yeah, YEAH!
Intro:
YEAH!
Verse 1:
Got your hands in your pockets, like your ready to pay
Got your eyes out of socket, like your a mile away
Mouth shut, like a locket, like you've nothing to say
Prechorus:
Speak your mind up, come on baby free yourself
Chorus:
Hey, no one can do it, free yourself
Hey, nothing to it, free yourself
Yeah, don't let nobody try to steal your soul
You're the original
Interlude 1: C5 Eb5 F5 G5 (x2)
Verse 2:
So you say your just a lost soul, I know you better than that
So you say your just a loss in the wash oh, I know you better than that
So you say your just a face in the city race, wasted and sick of it all
Tag:
The original
You're the original
The original
All right
Oh ohh, come on now
Oh ohh, come on now
On ohh, come on now
Oh ohh, YEAH!
ch /ch /ch
Interlude 2: C7 C7 C7 C7/F C7/Ab Cmaj7/G
Chorus (Final):
Yeah free yourself, hey, no one can do it, free yourself
Hey, nothing to it, free yourself
Yeah, don't let nobody try to steal your soul
Free yourself, hey, no one can do it, free yourself
Hey, nothing to it, free yourself
Yeah, don't let nobody try to steal your soul
You're the original
Outro: C5 Eb5 F5 G5 (x2)
Intro: D5 D5 D5 Dm (x4)
Verse 1:
Put your hands up open wide
Put your hands up side by side
Age don't matter like
Race don't matter like
Place don't matter like what's inside
Verse 2:
Let the kick drum kick one time
Breathe out let your mind unwind
Eyes on the ceiling
Looking for the feeling
Wide open let your own eyes shine
Prechorus 1:
Yeah! It's where the fight begins
Yeah! Underneath the skin
Beneath these hopes and where we've been
Every fight comes from the fight within
Chorus 1:
I am the war inside
I am the battle line
I am the rising tide
I am the war I fight
Eyes open, open wide
I can feel it like a crack in my spine
I can feel it like the back of my mind
I am the war inside
Verse 3:
I get the feeling like we're living in sci-fi
I get the feeling that our weapons are lofi
Ain't no killer like pride
No killer like I
No killer like what's inside
Prechorus 2:
Yeah! It's in the air we breathe
Yeah! It's in the blood we bleed
Beneath these dreams and what we've seen
We are the kids of the in-between
Chorus 2:
I am the war inside
I am the battle line
I am the rising tide
I am the war I fight
Eyes open, open wide
I can feel it like a crack in my spine
I can feel it like the back of my mind
I am the war inside
Refrain:
I am the war inside
I am the war inside
I am the war inside
I am the war inside
Interlude: D5 D5 D5 Dm (x4)
Prechorus 3:
Yeah! Every thought or deed
Yeah! Every tree or seed
The big thing come from the little dreams
Everyone of these made by make-believe
Tag (x2)
Outro: D5 D5 D5 Dm (x4)
You can play Bsus4 and Bsus2 as B4 and B2 respectively.
Intro: B Bsus4 B Bsus4 (x2)
Verse 1:
I am the sea on a moonless night
Calling falling, slipping tides
I am the leaky, dripping pipes
The endless, aching drops of light
I am the raindrop falling down
Always longing for the deeper ground
I am the broken, breaking seas
Even my blood finds ways to bleed
Prechorus 1:
Even the rivers ways to run
Even the rain to reach the sun
Even my thirsty streams
Even in my dreams
Chorus:
I am restless
I am restless
I am restless
Looking for you
I am restless
E/B G#m (F#) (only in final chorus)
I run like the ocean to find your shore
Looking for you
Verse 2:
I am the thorn stuck in your side
I am the one that you left behind
I am the dried-up doubting eyes
Looking for the well that won't run dry
Running hard for the other side
The world that I've always been denied
Running hard for the infinite
With the tears of saints and hypocrites
Prechorus 2:
ch /ch /ch
G#m (G#m/A# G#m/B)
Oh, blood of black and white and grey
Oh, death in life and night in day
ch /ch /ch
G#m (G#m/A# G#m/B)
One by one by one
We let our rivers run
Bridge:
I can hear you breathing
I can feel you leading
More than just a feeling
More than just a feeling
I can feel you reaching
Pushing through the ceiling
Til the final healing
I'm looking for you
Prechorus 3:
ch /ch
Until the sea of glass we meet
At last completed and complete
Where tide and tear and pain subside
And laughter drinks them dry
Refrain:
I'll be waiting
Anticipating
All that I aim for
What I was made for
With every heartbeat
All of my blood bleeds
Running inside me
Looking for you
Looking for you
Looking for you
Looking for you
Looking for you
Chorus+
B (lead into interlude)
Looking for you
Interlude: B E (x3) B Bsus4
Outro:
I'm looking for you
Intro: C
Verse 1:
Hey boy, don't believe 'em
The old lies never could come through
Hey boy, don't believe 'em
Everything that they told you to
Hey boy, don't believe 'em
We're the nation that eats our youth
Hey boy, don't believe 'em
None of us are bullet-proof
Interlude: C
Prechorus 1:
Deep down there's a boy inside
Asleep waiting for the sun to rise
F (sustain)
Wake up, wake up
Chorus:
Still looking for the blinding light
Still looking for the reason why
Still looking for the sun to shine
Take me higher and higher
All my life
I've been living in the darkest night
Still looking for the blinding light
To take me higher and higher
Verse 2:
Hey girl, be yourself now
Don't believe what they told you to
Hey girl, be yourself now
Your skin is more than a pin-up suit
Hey girl, don't conform now
No one else got soul like you
Hey girl, you're a strong one
But none of us are bullet-proof
Prechorus 2:
Deep down there's a hope inside
You've got wings, but you're scared to fly
F (sustain)
Wake up, wake up
Chorus (Change the lyrics "blinding light" to "sun to shine")
Interlude (x2)
Prechorus 3:
Deep down there's a hope inside
Brighter than the fears of my mind
I keep looking for the blinding light
It's the hope that keeps me alive
F (sustain)
Wake up, wake up
Chorus (Change the first three times of "Still looking" to "Keep looking", and "blinding
light" to "sun to rise")
Refrain:
The blinding light
The blinding light
I've been waiting all my life
Take me higher and higher
The blinding light
You're the vision that gives me sight
Oh the blinding light
Take me higher and higher
Outro: C
Verse 1:
Welcome to the holy city a silver screen
Built with the lens and a low self esteem
A teenager's plea for meaning and means
We're selling the news
Verse 2:
See opinions are easier to swallow than facts
The grays instead of the whites and the blacks
If you shoot it too straight they wont come back
We're selling the news
Verse 3:
See money speaks volumes louder than words
And virtues with wings maybe not quite at first
But their salaries are paying for the ad not the verbs
We're selling the news
Verse 4:
See all men are equal all is for sale
A powerful dog has been chasing his tail
The lowest common denominator prevails
We're selling the news
Chorus:
I want to believe you
ch /ch
I want to believe but everything is in between
The fact is fiction
The fact is fiction
I want to believe you
ch /ch
I want to believe but everything is in between
The fact is fiction
(F#)
Suspicion is a new religion
Interlude: B5 A#5 G5 F#5
Verse 5:
America listens the story is told
With an eye on truth the story unfolds
But the ratings determine the story was sold
We're selling the news
Verse 6:
Begging the question mongering fears
Stroking the eyes and tickling ears
The truth's just seldom just as it appears
We're selling the news
Bridge:
I can see your talking heads
On the television set
On the Internet they said
That fact is fiction
Suspicion is a new religion
Verse 7:
Substance oh substance where have you been
You've been replaced by the masters of spin
Who make good looking books and write history in
We're selling the news
Verse 8:
The lines start to blur I get so confused
I get shiny new models mixed up with the blues
I get binary code mixed up with abuse
The facts are simply one option to choose
Verse 9:
When nothing is sacred there's nothing to lose
When nothing is sacred all is consumed
We're still on the air it must be the truth
We're selling the news
Chorus (final):
I want to believe you
ch /ch
I want to believe but everything is in between
The fact is fiction
The fact is fiction
I want to believe you
ch /ch
I want to believe but everything is in between
The fact is fiction
The fact is fiction
I want to believe you
ch /ch
I want to believe but everything I see is greed
The fact is fiction
(F#)
Suspicion is a new religion
Outro: B5 and fade out
Intro: D
Verse 1:
Been fighting things that I can't see in
Like voices coming from the inside of me and
Like doing things I find hard to believe in
Am I myself or am I dreaming?
Prechorus 1:
I've been awake for an hour or so
Checking for a pulse but I just don't know
Am I a man when I feel like a ghost?
The stranger in the mirror is wearing my clothes
Chorus:
No I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
A steering wheel don't mean you can drive
A warm body don't mean I'm alive
No I'm not alright
I know that I'm not right
Feels like I travel but I never arrive
I want to thrive not just survive
Interlude: D
Verse 2:
I come alive when I hear you singing
But lately I haven't been hearing a thing and
I get the feeling that I'm in between
A machine and a man who only looks like me
Prechorus 2:
I try and hide it and not let it show
But deep down inside me I just don't know
Am I a man when I feel like a hoax?
The stranger in the mirror is wearing my clothes
Bridge:
I'm always close but I'm never enough
I'm always in line but I'm never in love
I get so down but I won't give up
I get slowed down but I won't give up
Tag:
Am I myself or am I dreaming?
Am I myself or am I dreaming?
Thrive Thrive
Thrive Thrive
Chorus (Change the lyrics "Feels like" to "Feel like")
Refrain:
I want to thrive not just survive
Ehh...Ehhh...
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
I want to thrive not just survive
I want to thrive not just survive
I want to thrive not just survive
Feel like I travel but I never arrive
G and fade out
I want to thrive not just survive
If you don't want to use power chords, A5, F5, C5,
D5 become Am, F, C and Dm respectively
Intro: A5 C5 F5 D5 (x4)
Verse 1:
I've made my mistakes
I've seen my heart cave in
I got my scars
I've been to hell and back again
Prechorus:
Born for the blue skies
We'll survive the rain
Born for the sunrise
We'll survive the pain
Chorus:
We're singing hey, you can't count us out
We've been running up against the crowd
Yeah, we are the dark horses
We're singing wait, it's not over now
We've been down but we've never been out
Yeah, we are the dark horses
Verse 2:
We found a way out
The city takes everything it can
But outside the crowds
I can feel my lungs again
Tag:
We're singing la, la la, la la la la
La, la la, la la la la
Interlude: A5 C5 F5 D5 (x2)
Bridge:
Born for the blue skies
Born for the blue skies
Born for the sunrise
We'll survive the pain
Chorus (final):
We're singing hey, you can't count us out
We've been running up against the crowd
Yeah, we are the dark horses
We're singing we don't care what they say
We know we'll find a way
Yeah, we are the dark horses
Tag (Remove "We're singing")
Interlude (x1/2)
Outro (whispered):
Keep running with the dark horses
Hope makes the blood change courses
Keep running with the dark horses
Stand up for the dark horses
Keep running with the dark horses
Hope makes the blood change courses
Keep running with the dark horses
F5 D5 and fade out
ch /ch
Intro: G5 G5/F# F C2 (x2)
Verse 1:
ch /ch
Here's to the twilight
Here's to the memories
ch /ch
These are my souvenirs
My mental pictures of everything
Verse 2:
ch /ch
Here's to the late nights
Here's to the fire light
ch /ch
These are my souvenirs
My souvenirs
Chorus 1:
I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you smiling, you're so alive
We were so young, we had no fear
We were so young, we had no idea
ch /ch
That life was just happening
ch /ch
Life was just happening
Verse 3:
Here's to your bright eyes
Shining like fireflies
These are my souvenirs
The memory of a lifetime
Verse 4:
We were wide-eyed with everything
Everything around us
We were enlightened by everything
Everything
Chorus 2:
So I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you smiling, you're so alive
I close my eyes and go back in time
You were just a child then, and so was I
We were so young, we had no fear
We were so young, we had no idea
That nothing lasts forever
That nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts, nothing lasts
You and me together
Were always now or never
Bridge:
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Interlude: G D/G Am C2 (x2)
Chorus (final):
I close my eyes and go back in time
I can see you smiling, you're so alive
I close my eyes and go back in time
You were wide-eyed, you were wide-eyed
We were so young, we had no fear
We were so young, we had just begun
A song we knew but had never sung
It burned like fire inside our lungs
Outro:
And life was just happening (nothing lasts, nothing lasts forever)
And life was just happening (nothing lasts, nothing lasts forever)
ch /ch
I wouldn't trade it for anything
My souvenirs
Outro: G5 and fade out
Intro: C#5 C#5 C#5 C#sus4 (x6)
Verse 1:
Another couple kids with their heads on top
Just another stranger just another plot
Another track home where the city streets stop
Just another kid with another bored cop
Verse 2:
Just another lemon into lemonade job
Just another rust and dust facade
Just another key stuck broken in the lock
Just another scarecrow choking on a cough
Oh come on!
Chorus 1:
It all feels so typical
Guess I'm looking for a miracle
Rise above it, rise above it
I don't care what their telling me
We could be what we want to be
Rise above it, rise above it
Verse 3:
Listen up loud listen up listen here
Just because you're running doesn't mean that you're scared
Just because it's law doesn't mean it is fair
Never let another tell your soul what to fear
Verse 4:
Here we go again give it one more try
Don't believe the system's on your side
Just another lover turned enemy fight
Just another blood and nicotine sky
Oh come on!
Chorus 2:
It all feels so typical
Guess I'm looking for a miracle
Rise above it, rise above it
I get so sick of it
Feels so counterfeit
I rise above it, rise above it
Interlude: C#m (x4)
Bridge:
Hear our voices rise
Hear our battle cry
We've been under the curse
With our arms raised high
Hear us sing tonight
Like the last night on earth
We will rise like the tide
Like dead men
Coming back to life
We are rising, rising
Interlude (x2)
Verse 5:
Turn it up now, listen loud and clear
Just because you're present doesn't mean you're here
Oh come on!
Chorus 3:
It all feels so typical
Guess I'm looking for a miracle
Rise above it, rise above it
A curse this broken
The system's broken
Rise above it, rise above it
Tag:
Let's rise above it
We can rise above it
Let's rise above it
Rise above it
Let's rise above it
C#m (one strum)
Intro: A D E/A D (x2)
Verse 1:
Walking along the high tide-line
Watching the Pacific from the side-lines
I wonder what it means to live together
Looking for more than just guide-lines
Verse 2:
Looking for signs in the night sky
Wishing that i wasn't such a nice guy
I wonder what it means to live forever
I wonder what it means to die
Chorus:
I know that there is meaning to it all
A little resurrection every time i fall
You've got your babies, I've got my hearses
Every blessing comes with a set of curses
I've got my vices, I've got my vice verses
E A (lead into interlude)
I've got my vice verses
Verse 3:
The wind could be my new obsession
The wind could be my next depression
The wind goes anywhere it wants to
Wishing that i learned my lesson
Verse 4:
The ocean sounds like a garage band
Coming at me like a drunk man
The ocean tells me a thousand stories
None of them are lies
Chorus (Change the last A into Bm)
Bridge:
ssu4
Let the Pacific laugh
Be on my epitaph
With these rising and falling
And after all,
It's just water and I am just soul
With a body of water and bone
Water and bone
Interlude (x2)
Verse 5:
Where is God in the city life?
Where is God in the city light?
Where is God in the earthquake?
Where is God in the genocide?
Verse 6:
Where are you in my broken heart?
Everything seems to fall apart
Everything feels rusted over
Tell me that you're there
Chorus (final):
I know that there is meaning to it all
A little resurrection every time i fall
You've got your babies, I've got my hearses
Every blessing comes with a set of curses
ch /ch
I've got my vices, I've got my vice verses
D A (lead into outr)
I've got my vice verses
Outro: A D E/A D (x2) A and fade out
The refrain of this final track is the same as verses 3 and 4 in Afterlife (the first
track), making this a nice cyclic close to the album.
Intro:
Verse 1:
Feeling like a refugee
Like it don't belong to me
The colours flash across the sky
This air feels strange to me
Feeling like a tragedy
I take a deep breath and close my eyes
One last time
One last time
Verse 2:
Storms on the wasteland
Dark clouds on the plains again
We were born into the fight
But I'm not sentimental
This skin and bones is a rental
And no one makes it out alive, yeah
Chorus:
Until I die I'll sing these songs
On the shores of Babylon
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong
Where the weak are finally strong
Where the righteous right the wrongs
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong
Interlude: A A Dsus2 Dsus2
Verse 3:
Feels like we're just waiting, waiting
While are hearts are just breaking, breaking
Feels like we've been fighting against the tide
I wanna see the earth start shaking
I wanna see a generation
Finally waking up inside, yeah
s
A world where I belong
Bridge:
This body's not my own
This world is not my own
But I still can hear the sound
Of my heart beating out
So let's go boys, sing it loud
Interlude (x2)
Verse 4:
And on the final day I die
I want to hold my head up high
I want to tell You that I tried
To live it like a song
And when I reach the other side
I want to look You in the eye
And know that I've arrived
In a world where I belong
Tag:
In a world where I belong
In a world where I belong
Where I belong
Where I belong
Tag:
s
Where I belong, yeah
s
Where I belong, yeah!
Refrain:
I still believe we can live forever
You and I we begin forever now
Forever now, forever
I still believe in us together
You and I we're here together now
Together now
Forever now
Forever now
Forever now
Forever
A and fade out
Forever