Sara Bareilles – Chasing The Sun (Ukulele)

Capo 1
Key
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Chords

* = strum once [Intro] C F Em G [Pre-Chorus]
C       
It's a really old city

F
Stuck between the dead and the living

Em                      G                              
So I thought to myself sitting on a graveyard shelf

Am                         F                            
As the echo of heartbeats from the ground below my feet

Em                G*
Filled a cemetery in the center of Queens
[Verse 1]
C                                       
I started running the maze of

F                        Em
The names and the dates some older than others

G
The skyscrapers little tombstone brothers

Am                         F
With Manhattan behind her three million stunning reminders

Em                G*
Built a cemetery in the center of Queens
[Chorus]
C                       Em                       F
You said remember that life is not meant to be wasted

G                            C*
We can always be chasing the sun

C               Em             F      
So fill up your lungs and just run

G                         C*
But always be chasing the sun
[Instrumental] C F Em G [Verse 2]
C                    F                               Em
So how do you do it With just words and just music capture the feeling

G
That my earth is somebody's ceiling

Am                      F
can I deliver in sound the weight of the ground

Em             G
Of a cemetery in the center of Queens

C
There's a history through her

F                                     Em
Sent to us as a gift from the future to show us the proof

G
More than that it's to dare us to move

Am                      F
To open our eyes and to learn from the sky

Em              G*
From a cemetery in the center of Queens
[Chorus]
C                       Em                       F                      
You said remember that life is Not meant to be wasted

G                            C*
We can always be chasing the sun

C               Em             F
So fill up your lungs and just run

G                         C*
But always be chasing the sun
[Bridge]
C          F     G      
All we can do is try

Am                  F       G
And live like we're still alive
[Pre-Chorus]
C
It's a really old city

F
Stuck between the dead and the living

Em                      G
So I thought to myself sitting on a graveyard shelf

Am                           F
And the gift of my heartbeat sounds like a symphony

Em                   G*
Played by a cemetery in the center of Queens
[Chorus]
C                       Em                      F
You said remember that life is not meant to be wasted

G                            C*
We can always be chasing the sun

C               Em                     F
So fill up your lungs and just run

G                         C 
But always be chasing the sun
[Bridge]
C          F     G
All we can do is try

Am                  F      G
And live like we're still alive

C          F     G
All we can do is try

Am                  F       G
And live like we're still alive
NOTE FOR ENDING You can either go with the Pre-chorus thing that starts out the song like she does or what I like to do is the first two lines of the chorus except softer and stay in the octave for sun instead of going up like in the rest of the song and fade off with a pretty C chord