Silverstein – California chords

Silverstein
"California"
This is How the Wind Shifts

Tuning: Half-Step Down


Intro:
G                            EmFeel it, the calm after the storm.
                  DAs still as I can be.
                 CI'm finally all alone until I fall asleep...

Em--C                      Em--C     Did I escape or am I captured?
                               DTrapped in a cage of rear view mirror eyes.
C              DTriangles that look like faces.


Verse 1:
Em  This is what I get
C-Em    for my revenge.
  D      CA hidden microphone,
Dan amber alert implanted...
Em...under my skin.
C-Em                   [D]   It's just in my head but
C  it takes me over.
   D                       EmIt makes me forget why I'm on my way.
           GThese four years feel like a hundred.


Chorus:
Em                       C                          DWest-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.
                   CI've been running scared without you.
  D                  EmI drove all night to tell you.
                         C                       DIn dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.
               C---D                            Em--C
I know it was another life but I never could forget you.
                 Em--C----D
I never could forget you.


Verse 2:
Em                 C      Em  We set it up (we set it up)
                      D    Clike a house of cards in a hurricane.
   DWe didn't think it would ever make sense.
Em                 C       Em  He set us up (he set you up),
                      Dhe knew just where to plant it.
C  It knocked me over,
   D                    Emit made me forget how I fell in love.
    GHow much I really cared.


Chorus:
Em                       C                          DWest-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.
                   CI've been running scared without you.
  D                  EmI drove all night to tell you.
                         C                       DIn dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.
               C---D                          [Ad Lib: Em-D-C-D]
I know it was another life but I never could forget you.
I never could forget you.


Bridge:
Em             DYou'll see me there
         C like a familiar stranger 
 Dstanding on the street.
Em           D  I'll say a prayer,
          CI'll introduce myself 
              Dlike it's the first time we'd ever meet.
Em       G  In California, 
    Am                       C       D    EmI'd learn that sometimes you have to run away.
       GIn California,
    Am           C--D
I'd find myself again.


Chorus:
Em                       C                          DWest-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.
                   CI've been running scared without you.
  D                  EmI drove all night to tell you.
                         C                       DIn dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.
               C                 D             EmI know it was another life but I never could forget you...