Bush – The Gift (Guitar)

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Song: The Gift Artist: Bush Album: Man on the Run (2014) Track: #4 I quite like this one. The riffs remind be a bit of Nigel and Gavin's riffs off Golden State. Solid, easy song, you can decorate with a few 7's and 2's here and there to give it a fuller sound.
[Riff 1]
          F#m    A     Bm     D
e|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|----------------------------|
D|------------7------------7--|
A|----7-8-9-------------------|
E|-----------------9-8-7------|
In notes:
E F F#m A C# C B A
[Riff 2]
    D      Bm     F#m    
e|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|
D|----7-6----7-6----7-6----7-6----|
A|--------7------7------7------7--|
E|--------------------------------|
In notes:
A G# E A G# E A G# E A G# E [Opening] (Riff 1) [Verse 1]
         F#m              A
You’re a shooting star

      Bm             D
We’re in your constellation

          F#m             A
No matter where you are

    Bm          D
You know we are waiting

        F#m               A
Soon we come for you

      Bm          D
While everyone is sleeping

      F#m                 A
Gonna take you through

    Bm             D
The gift is in the giving    (Riff 1 comes in)

  F#m               A               Bm
Inside of you with all your lies

D           F#m
Nettles and vines

A           Bm      D
Nettles and vines
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Bm7        A          F#m
Shadows fall on these broken days

     Bm7        A
If I wait for you

F#m
I'm your slave, I'm your slave
[Chorus 1]
D          Bm
  I give I bleed

         F#m
I try it again
But I could never remember
D            Bm
  We fell so hard

         F#m
Onto the ground

                         D 
But we never surrender       (Riff 2 comes in)

   Bm          F#m
We never surrender
We never surrender [Verse 2]
           F#m            A
I know the enemy

           Bm           D
I know the one I keep inside

       F#m                A
It’s a feeling

Bm         D
Help us to survive

          F#m             A
See my fingers

Bm       D
See my bones

         F#m              A
I walk a thousand miles

     Bm       D
On a chemical road           (Riff 1 comes in)

  F#m               A               Bm
Inside of you with all my lies

D           F#m
Nettles and vines

A           Bm      D
Nettles and vines
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Bm7        A          F#m
Shadows fall on these broken days

    Bm7        A
You look so good

F#m
As my slave, as my slave
[Chorus 2]
D          Bm
  I give I bleed

         F#m
I try it again
But I could never remember
D            Bm
  We fell so hard

         F#m
Onto the ground

                         D 
But we never surrender       (Riff 2 comes in)

   Bm          F#m
We never surrender
We never surrender [Bridge]
E2      Bm    D2
  To be born again

              D
There’s been so much living

E2        Bm          D2       D
  Take it back to the start
[Verse 3] (Bass only)
         F#m              A
You’re a shooting star

      Bm             D
We’re in your constellation

          F#m             A
No matter where you are

    Bm          D
You know we are waiting
Waiting [Chorus 3] (Play twice)
D          Bm
  I give I bleed

         F#m
I try it again
But I could never remember
D            Bm
  We fell so hard

         F#m
Onto the ground

                         D
But we never surrender       (Riff 2 comes in)

   Bm          F#m
We never surrender
We never surrender