Silverstein – California (Ukulele)

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This is How the Wind Shifts Intro:
F                            Dm
Feel it, the calm after the storm.

                  G
As still as I can be.

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

Dm--F                      Dm--F
     Did I escape or am I captured?

                               G
Trapped in a cage of rear view mirror eyes.

F              G
Triangles that look like faces.
Verse 1:
Dm
  This is what I get

F-Dm
    for my revenge.

  G      F
A hidden microphone,

G
an amber alert implanted...

Dm
...under my skin.

F-Dm                   [G]
   It's just in my head but

F
  it takes me over.

   G                       Dm
It makes me forget why I'm on my way.

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

                   F
I've been running scared without you.

  G                  Dm
I drove all night to tell you.

                         F                       G
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:
Dm                 F      Dm
  We set it up (we set it up)

                      G    F
like a house of cards in a hurricane.

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

Dm                 F       Dm
  He set us up (he set you up),

                      G
he knew just where to plant it.

F
  It knocked me over,

   G                    Dm
it made me forget how I fell in love.

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

                   F
I've been running scared without you.

  G                  Dm
I drove all night to tell you.

                         F                       G
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:
Dm             G
You'll see me there

         F 
like a familiar stranger 

 G
standing on the street.

Dm           G
  I'll say a prayer,

          F
I'll introduce myself 

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

Dm       F
  In California, 

    Dm                       F       G    Dm
I'd learn that sometimes you have to run away.

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

                   F
I've been running scared without you.

  G                  Dm
I drove all night to tell you.

                         F                       G
In dreams I've seen your face with another in my place.

               F                 G             Dm
I know it was another life but I never could forget you...