Dave Barnes – What I Need (Guitar)

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From "What We Want, What We Get" (2010) Tabbed by Kevin Dorth and Wessley Mitchell Capo: None This song is mostly down-strumming, but feel free to mix it up. Intro: C# G# B F#7 Verse 1:
        C#           G#         B            F#7
I got a head full of dreams and time here to scheme.

           C# G# B  F#7
This ain't good, good.

    C#            G#               B              F#7
I'm thinking, you know, about what did and didn't go

        C#   G# B    F#7
Like it should, should.

G#
All these expectations

F#7          C#
Just mean my heart'll be breaking.

G#              C#m F#
Oh, why can't I see?
Chorus:
B           E             G#m
You give me what I need,

                       E
Even on my brightest day,

                 B
Even in a hurricane.

            E             G#m
You give me what I need,

                          E
Even when there's way too much,

                      C#
Even when I'm down to dust.
G# B F#7 C# G# B F#7 Verse 2:
     C#            G#            B            F#7
I've troubled with time, but its will was not mine.

             C#  G#               B F#7
There was no slowin' where it was goin'.

    C#       G#                  B     F#7
The wishes I willed all came back unfulfilled.

      C#  G#          B F#7
I was prayin' without patience.

G#
All those expectations

F#7          C#
Just meant my heart was breaking.

G#              C#m F#
Oh, why can't I see?
Chorus:
B           E             G#m
You give me what I need,

                       E
Even on my brightest day,

                 B
Even in a hurricane.

            E             G#m
You give me what I need,

                          E
Even when there's way too much,
Even when I'm down to dust. Bridge:
F#        B  F#    E
I keep calm, carry on,
Like nothing ever went wrong.
F#          B   F#    E
That's what I'm gonna do.

                                 F#
(That's what I'm gonna do, oh.)

           B  F#     E
Laugh it off, move along,
Get back where I belong.
F#              B       F# E
Live my life by leaning on you.

                    F#                      B
(Oh, I lean on you.  I'm gonna lean on you, yeah.)
Chorus:
B           E             G#m
You give me what I need,

                       E
Even on my brightest day,

                 B
Even in a hurricane.

            E             G#m
You give me what I need,

                          E
Even when there's way too much,
Even when I'm down to dust.
B           E             G#m
You give me what I need,

                     E
Even on my brightest day,

                 B
Even in a hurricane.

            E             G#m
You give me what I need,

                E 
(Oh, oh, what I need.)

                   B      E
You give me what I need.

               G#m    E
Give me what I need.

                 B  E  G#m  E
Oh, oh, oh, oh.