Silverstein – California (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
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Versions (3)

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Chords

This is How the Wind Shifts Intro:
G                            Em
Feel it, the calm after the storm.

                  D
As still as I can be.

                 C
I'm finally all alone until I fall asleep...

Em--C                      Em--C
     Did I escape or am I captured?

                               D
Trapped in a cage of rear view mirror eyes.

C              D
Triangles that look like faces.
Verse 1:
Em
  This is what I get

C-Em
    for my revenge.

  D      C
A hidden microphone,

D
an amber alert implanted...

Em
...under my skin.

C-Em                   [D]
   It's just in my head but

C
  it takes me over.

   D                       Em
It makes me forget why I'm on my way.

           G
These four years feel like a hundred.
Chorus:
Em                       C                          D
West-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.

                   C
I've been running scared without you.

  D                  Em
I drove all night to tell you.

                         C                       D
In dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.
C---D Em--C I know it was another life but I never could forget you. Em--C----D I never could forget you. Verse 2:
Em                 C      Em
  We set it up (we set it up)

                      D    C
like a house of cards in a hurricane.

   D
We didn't think it would ever make sense.

Em                 C       Em
  He set us up (he set you up),

                      D
he knew just where to plant it.

C
  It knocked me over,

   D                    Em
it made me forget how I fell in love.

    G
How much I really cared.
Chorus:
Em                       C                          D
West-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.

                   C
I've been running scared without you.

  D                  Em
I drove all night to tell you.

                         C                       D
In dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.
C---D [Ad Lib: Em-D-C-D] I know it was another life but I never could forget you. I never could forget you. Bridge:
Em             D
You'll see me there

         C 
like a familiar stranger 

 D
standing on the street.

Em           D
  I'll say a prayer,

          C
I'll introduce myself 

              D
like it's the first time we'd ever meet.

Em       G
  In California, 

    Am                       C       D    Em
I'd learn that sometimes you have to run away.

       G
In California,
Am C--D I'd find myself again. Chorus:
Em                       C                          D
West-bound, driving all alone to make sure that you know.

                   C
I've been running scared without you.

  D                  Em
I drove all night to tell you.

                         C                       D
In dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.

               C                 D             Em
I know it was another life but I never could forget you...