Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – If I Were Free (Guitar)

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[Intro] C Am G F C G Am (x2) [Verse]
C  Am  G   F
[tab]                              Am
I would run into battles with flowers and hugs

                                 G
And bow at the boots of our well-oiled thugs

               Am
Yes, if I were free

C  Am  G   F
If it were me

                               Am
I would yell out I love you to all I passed

                                  G
I would disrobe and disco and rip off my mask

               C               G                  Am           
Yes, if I were free I'd be the U that crossed the I to simply be

G                              F             C
Minding our reflections at the bottom of the sea

             G
What did you see?

C          G         Am
I saw that you and I forever have been free

    G                            F           C
The light became too heavy and I fell into a dream

             E7
What did you dream?
C Am G F C Am C Am F G Am
C Am       G F
I dreamed a  wind that would sweep

                  Am
Every castle made of sand

                        G
Out across the old far holy land

                 Am
Oh, if this were free

C  Am    G   F
If this were free

                              Am
We'd be free of the terror of the graves

                         G
And fear masquerading as the brave 

                 C       G      Am
Oh, if this were free
C G Am
C      G             Am
I woke upon a pig of red, white and blue

    G                          F             C
The circus got too heavy so we fell into the zoo

             G
What did you feel?

C          G               Am
I felt the fear that every queer does in his head

G                                    F          C
First thing to starting over, I made sure I was dead

             G
What do you dream?
Dm C G E7 Dm C Am E7
C             G                   Am
Swimming with ancients, laughing, tired of getting lost

   G                                F               C
We took our left, remember, when we leaned upon the cross

             G
What did you see?

C          G         Am
I saw that you and I forever have been free

    G                             F           C
The light became too heavy and we fell into a dream
C G Am