Wide Awake Audioslave
Just heard the acoustic version of Audioslave´s Wide awake, and decided to transcribe
here you go:
Acoustic version: performed and written by Chris Cornell,
written after the Hurricane Katrina disaster,
the most political song by Audioslave, so far...
Tuning: ebgdaD
Intro: Dm D12 D10
e 1 0 0
[b]g [3]2 [3]2 [3]2
d 0 0 0
a 0 0 0
D 0 3 2
Verse1
[Dm]You can a look a hurricane righ[D12]t in the [Dm]eye
1200 people dead or [D12]left to [Dm]die
[Dm]Follow the leaders, we're[Bb] in an eye for a[Dm]n eye we'll all be blind
Death for murder and this[Bb] I'm sure in this [Dm]uncertain [A]time
Chorus
[Dm]So come pull the sheet over my e[Fmaj7]yes
So I can sleep [Bb]tonight
[Dm]Despite what I[C]'ve seen today
[Dm]I find you guilty of [Fmaj7]a crime, of sleeping [Bb]at a time
[Dm]When you should have bee[C]n wide awake
Interlude=intro
Verse2
[Dm]Down on the road the w[D12]orld is floating [Dm]by
[Dm]The poor and undefended [D12]left behin[Dm]d
While you're somewhere trading lives for [Bb]oil
A[Dm]s if the whole world were b[A]lind
Chorus
[Dm]So come pull the sheet over my [Fmaj7]eyes
So I can sleep [Bb]tonight
[Dm]Despite what I'[C]ve seen today
[Dm]I find you guilty of a [Fmaj7]crime of sleeping at [Bb]a time
[Dm]When you should have been w[C]ide awake
[Bb]I found you g[A]uilty of a [Dm]crime, all this [Cadd9]I know(?)
[Dm]Come pull the sheet over m[C]y eyes
So I can sleep [Bb]tonight
[Dm]Despite what I[C]'ve seen today
[Dm]I find you guilty of the [Fmaj7]crime of sleeping at [Bb]a time
[Dm]When you should have been [C]wide awake
[Dm]Wide awake! [C]Wide awake! [Bb]Wide awake! [C]Wide awake![Dm]
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