Richard Ashcroft – Check The Meaning (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar Acoustic
Guitar
Auto-scroll
Speed:
1.0x
Chords
(Ashcroft)
Single version.
Tabbed by STET
NB. Though the chords seem to repeat, Em and G chords sporadically
alternate, even between choruses, to match the lyrical mood.
*F and Dm chords hammer-on/off Fsus2 and Dm7 respectively throughout to create riff sound
Fsus2: 133011 Dm7: xx0211
[Intro]
F (Fsus2) Em Dm (Dm7) Em x2
F (Fsus2) G Dm (Dm7) Em x2
[Verse 1]
F G Dm When I'm low, and I'm weak, and I'm lost Em F G Dm Em I don't know who I can tru-u-ust F Em Dm Paranoia, the destroyer, Em F Em Dm Em Comes knocking on my do-o-or F G Dm You know the pain drifts to days, turns to nights Em F Em Dm Em But slowly will subsi-i-ide F G Dm And when it does, I take a step, I take a breath Em F G Dm Em And wonder what I'll fi-i-ind
[Chorus 1]
F G Dm Em Can you hear what I'm saying? F G Dm Em Got my mind meditating on love, love F G Dm Em Feel what I'm saying F G Dm Em Got my mind meditating on love, love F G Dm Em Check the meaning.
[Verse 2]
F Em Dm Too much blood, too much hate, turn off the set Em F Em Dm Em There's gotta be something mo-o-ore F G Dm When Mohammed, Allah, Buddah, Jesus Christ Em F Em Dm Em Are knocking down my do-o-or F G Dm I'm agnostic getting God, but man Em F Em Dm Em She takes a female fo-o-orm F G Dm There's no time, no space, no law Em F Em Dm Em We're out here on our o-o-own
[Chorus 2]
F G Dm Em Can you hear what I'm saying? F Em Dm Em Got my mind meditating on love, love F G Dm Em Feel what I'm saying F G Dm Em Got my mind meditating on love, love.
[Instrumental]
F Em Dm Em
F G Dm Em
[Bridge]
F Em Dm Em Can you hear what I'm saying? F Em Dm Em Can you hear what I'm saying? (Check the meaning).
F Em Dm Em x4
[Outro]
F G Dm Em Can you hear what I'm saying?
(Check the meaning)
F G Dm Em Got my mind meditating on love - love
(I'm like a fish with legs) (I fell from the tree)
F G Dm Em Can you hear what I'm saying
(I made a wheel)
F Em Dm Em Got my mind meditating on love, love.
(I made a rocket - I swam the ocean)
F G Dm Em Feel what I'm saying
(I see you) (I see the universe and beyond)
F G Dm Em Got my mind meditating on love, love.
(I see you) (I see me)
F Em Dm Em That's my reality...