Incubus – Look Alive (Guitar)

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[Intro] Cm Cm Ab (x2) [Verse 1]
    Cm
The hardest thing is rendering

                               Ab
A moment moving too fast to endure

    Cm
But you abide and smile wide

                                   Ab
'Cause I want to remember this, for sure

        Cm
You can give me guns and politics

                                    Ab
And I'll just make a mess of it, you know

Cm
Give me art and sustenance

                                      Ab
And the wiser, wider part of me will show

                 Eb
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[Chorus]
                   Fm
Pictures say with sight

                         Cm
What we can't say with words

                         Gm
But you've been walking eyes to feet

                    Eb
In dark sunglasses

                   Fm
A picture will survive

                   Cm
So smile and look alive

                   Ab
The camera lens is opening

                Cm         Ab      
A wider angle shows
[Verse 2]
      Cm
Yeah, every empty one of us

                                           Ab
Have methods to quell the madness of this pace

    Cm
But yours have bled and are running south

                                    Ab
Like dollar store mascara down your face

          Cm
You could take that weight and all that fuss

                                     Ab
It all just gets the best of us, you know

Cm
Give me love, not suicide

                                     Ab               Eb
And the wiser, wider part of me will show, yeah yeah
[Chorus]
                  Fm
Pictures say with sight

                         Cm
What we can't say with words

                         Gm
But you've been walking eyes to feet

                    Eb
In dark sunglasses

                   Fm
A picture will survive

                   Cm
So smile and look alive

                   Ab
The camera lens is opening

                 Cm
A wider angle shows
[Break]
       Ab
Look alive

                        Cm
Smile, smile and look alive

                       Ab       Eb   Fm   Cm   Ab
Smile, smile and look alive

Eb   Fm   Cm   Ab
Yeah, whoa, oh
[Chorus Variant] (Strum each chord once)
Eb                  Dm
Pictures say with sight

                         C#
What we can't say with words

                          Cm
But you've been walking eyes to feet

                 Cm
In dark sunglasses

                   A#
A picture will survive

                   Fm
So smile and look alive
[Chorus]
Eb                  Fm
Pictures say with sight

                         Cm
What we can't say with words

                         Gm
But you've been walking eyes to feet

                    Eb
In dark sunglasses

                   Fm
A picture will survive

                   Cm
So smile and look alive

                     Ab
The camera lens is opening

                 Cm
A wider angle shows
[Outro]
       Ab
Look alive

                        Cm
Smile, smile and look alive

                       Ab
Yeah, smile and look alive

            Cm
Yeah, whoo