When Youre On Top Chords

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When Youre On Top by Wallflowers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, A, Bm and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			
INTRO (keyboard arr for guitar) 

E---------------------------------------- 
B----------------------------------------E 
G---------------------------------------- 
D-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------C 
A---------------------------------------- 
E----------------------------------------T 


G 
I need a bed 
			    D 
That nobody’s slept in 
G 
I need some air 
			   D 
That nobody’s been breathing 
G		 
I need a thought 
		    D 
That I can believe in 
A 
Is this fog 
Or is the building really burning 

G 
I need you now 
D 
Much more than ever 
G 
I’m making new friends 
	    D 
But none of them matter 
G 
Maybe now 
       D 
We don’t fit together 
	A 
But you’ve got your arms around 
No one but strangers 

(chorus) 

D 
I feel fine 
		     G 
With the sun in my eyes 
D 
The wind in my hair 
			       G		 
When I ‘m falling out of this sky 
D				      G 
I’m doing better than I thought I would 
D						 
But nothing’s ever as good 
       G               
As when you’re on top 


I want to wake up 
And just start running 
Into a ditch 
Or straight up a mountain 
I want to get  
Where no ones’s been gettin’ 
Make it deeper than hell 
Or make it higher than heaven 
I need someone whose price hasn’t been met 
When everybody’s disappearing 
By the minute 
There isn’t anyone left 
That I haven’t met yet 
Well I remember 
When they hadn’t gotten to you yet 

(chorusx2) 

(bridge) 
Bm 
Half way up 
	     G 
And over this rainbow 
D 
I heard a shot 
       	A 
Fire up from the ghetto 
Bm 
As I drop 
		 G 
I didn’t think you’d follow 
E 
Just didn’t know   D....G.....D.....G 

The sky was this shallow  
(solo 
  use tremalo) 
E-------------------------------------7ttt-9ttt-10tttttttt- 
B----------------------------8tt-10tt---------------------- 
G--------------------7tt-9tt------------------------------- 
D-7ttt-9-7t-9-10tt----------------------------------------- 
A---------------------------------------------------------- 
E---------------------------------------------------------- 
play around with those notes. 


I need a garden 
Where nothings forbidden 
I need an apple 
That no one’s been eatin’ 
I want to start again 
Back at the beginin’ 
I had a vision 
That this feeling maybe has an ending 

(Chorus) 


DURING VERSE 
    G	           D 
E-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2- 
B-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3- 
G--------------------------------- 
D--------------------------------- 
A--------------------------------- 
E--------------------------------- 

DURING CHORUS (you could just pick these or change chord(see  top) 
 *D       *G 
E-5~~~-3~~~- 
B----------- 
G----------- 
D----------- 
A----------- 
E----------- 

Enjoy!
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante