Richard Ashcroft – Check The Meaning (Guitar)

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(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...